Peeking Inside the Black Box: One Institution's Experience Developing Policy for Unrepresented Patients

Inside the Black Box: Organisational Buying Behaviour and Strategic Purchasing in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentary

Secondary Innovation: the Experience of Chinese Enterprises in Learning, Innovation and Capability Building

Nowadays enterprises have played an important role in China’s economic development and increasingly become the main force of China’s growing research and innovation activities. Different from some related work on developing countries’ innovation policy and strategy, the evolutionary model of secondary innovation, based on Chinese enterprises’ innovation practice, highlights the significant role...

Inside the Black Box: The Use of Voluntarily Reported Incident Data

A year-long case study examined how four hospitals, that increased their medication error reporting, used the data and to what effect. Findings suggest that the immediate challenge for reporting-driven patient safety initiatives may not be to increase reporting but rather to implement an organizational design that enables learning from data already being reported. Implications for healthcare or...

Identifying key steps in developing a one-stop shop for health policy and system information in a limited-resource setting: A case study

Background: There is limited understanding about the development of the online one-stop shops for evidence in a limited-resource setting, such as Uganda. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive account of the development process of the online resource for local policy and systems-relevant information in this setting. Methods: We utilized a case study design to address our objective where ...

Beyond the Black Box Approach to Ethics!; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

In the editorial published in this journal, Daniels and colleagues argue that his and Sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (A4R) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (HTA)-process, especially concerning fairness. In contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...