This text is a general presentation of the hospital strategic management methodology elaborated by M. Crémadez and F. Grateau (France), including the goals, phases and main tools of the approach. The work takes into account the microeconomic aspects of the methodology and its potentials to stucture health care networks based on negotiation of hospitals goals. The text includes the presentation of one experience of implementation of the approach as a regional coordination mean applied by general surgery discipline of programatic area (AP-4) hospitals of Rio de Janeiro city.
Strategic planning; Hospital management; health care profile; Public health
