Human resources are the single largest budget line in any healthcare organization. But employees are not costs; rather, they must be viewed by managers, boards, and governments as the core assets of the system.

nder the prevalent model of leadership formation in Catholic health care — we would even say the default model — individual executives are chosen from a given health care organization and invited to participate with executives from their own system, or across systems, in a learning and development cohort. Sessions take place outside the executives’ usual environments, generally in a retreat-lik...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The transmission of research findings into routine care is a slow and unpredictable process. Important factors predicting receptivity for innovations within organizations have been identified, but there is a need for further research in this area. The aim of this study was to describe contextual factors and evaluate if organizational climate and implementation str...

Health care providers offer an ideal setting to study the effectiveness of resilient behavior. The notion of a resilient organization is an emerging concept for understanding and coping with the modern-day pace of change and associated work stress. Resilience is the ability of an individual or organization to expeditiously design and implement positive adaptive behaviors matched to the immediat...

BACKGROUND Healthcare reforms initiated in the early 2000s in Québec involved the implementation of new modes of primary healthcare (PHC) delivery and the creation of Health and Social Services Centers (HSSCs) to support it. The objective of this article is to assess and explain the degree of PHC organizational change achieved following these reforms. METHODS We conducted two surveys of PHC o...

The paper lacks reliable, credible and trusted evidences to support the claims that the authors made. For instance, the authors claimed, " In Iran, at first, the hospital ac-creditation system had only focused on the structural standards and it was a lot of criticism. " No evidences for such a claim have been provided. The authors also wrote, " The hospital accredita-tion system in Iran emphasi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of organizational leadership on the professional satisfaction and burnout of individual physicians working for a large health care organization. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS We surveyed physicians and scientists working for a large health care organization in October 2013. Validated tools were used to assess burnout. Physicians also rated the leadership qualities ...

OBJECTIVE Clinical guidelines are special types of plans realized by collective agents. We provide an ontological theory of such plans that is designed to support the construction of a framework in which guideline-based information systems can be employed in the management of workflow in health care organizations. METHOD The framework we propose allows us to represent, in formal terms, how cl...

Background The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) established the Quality Initiative in 1998 to improve health care quality in California. Since then, the Quality Initiative has been a catalyst in stimulating consumer-driven improvement of health care quality by fostering the development and dissemination of salient and standardized quality-of-care measures; stimulating consumer and purcha...

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