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Implementation of a comprehensive program to improve coordination of care in an urban academic health care system
Ya Luan Hsiao, Eric B. Bass, Albert W. Wu, Melissa B. Richardson, Amy Deutschendorf, Daniel J. Brotman, Michele Bellantoni, Eric E. Howell, Anita Everett, Debra Hickman, Leon Purnell, Raymond Zollinger, Carol Sylvester, Constantine G. Lyketsos, Linda Dunbar, Scott A. BerkowitzAcademic healthcare systems face great challenges in coordinating services across a continuum of care that spans hospital, community providers, home and chronic care facilities…
Inter-occupational cooperation and boundary work in the hospital setting
Anna CregårdThe purpose of this paper is to add a little piece to the research on boundary work and inter-occupational cooperation by addressing two questions: how do actors perform boundary…
Caveats for high reliability in healthcare
Peter F. Martelli, Peter E. Rivard, Karlene H. RobertsGiven the pace of industry change and the rapid diffusion of high reliability organization (HRO) approaches, lags and divergences have arisen between research and practice in…
Dynamics of distributed leadership during a hospital merger
Charlotte Jonasson, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, Maria Shubhra OvesenMergers have become an influential part of public hospital development, and the successful implementation of such mergers requires skillful management. Recent studies have pointed…
Determinants of good and poor quality as perceived by US health care managers: A grounded taxonomy based on evidence from narratives of care
Rebecca Amati, Amer A. Kaissi, Annegret F. HannawaThe scientific literature evidences that the quality of care must be improved. However, little research has focused on investigating how health care managers – who are responsible…
Integrated care: mobilising professional identity
Stephanie Best, Sharon WilliamsIntegrated care has been identified as essential to delivering the reforms required in health and social care across the UK and other healthcare systems. Given this suggests new…
Multi-professional teamwork in human services: The mutual shaping of professional identity and team activities
Ulrica NylénThis paper investigates the prospects and difficulties of multi-professional teamwork in human services from a professional identity perspective. The purpose of this paper is to…