To examine factors influencing readiness for healthcare organizational change, 654 randomly selected hospital staff completed questionnaires measuring the logistical and occupational risks of change, ability to cope with change and to solve jobrelated problems, social support, measures of Karasek's (1979) active vs. passive job construct (job demand x decision latitude) and readiness for organi...

Weak equivalences are important behavioral equivalences in the course of specifying and analyzing reactive systems using process algebraic languages. In this paper, we propose a series of weak equivalences named weak parametric readiness equivalences, which take two previously-known behavioral equivalences, i.e., the weak readiness equivalence and the weak possible future equivalence, as their ...

This paper is an offshoot of the findings of a doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Johannesburg (formerly Rand Afrikaans University) in South Africa on the assessment of e-readiness tools with respect to information access. The paper argues that information is a key component in the e-readiness equation and yet it is not given much emphasis in the e-readiness extant tools, but is i...

Of late, the advancements in technology have witnessed a spike number of schemes aimed towards enhancing deployment technologies construction-based entities, thereby increasing demand for technological modifications. This paper intends to scrutinise keenness construction entities identify changes within sector. The goals this research work are ascertain degree willingness alterations, norms whi...

OBJECTIVE To identify contextual factors at different organisational levels to guide the implementation of an assistive living technology intervention in Norwegian primary home care. DESIGN A single embedded case study design was carried out in an urban municipality in Western Norway to get an overview of key contextual factors from the municipality's perspective. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYS...

This paper considers an implication of the idea that proposals for integrated care for older people should start from a focus on the patient, consider co-production solutions to the problems of care fragmentation, and be at a system-wide, cross-organisational level. It follows that the analysis, design and therefore evaluation of integrated care projects should be based upon the journeys which ...

BACKGROUND Prevention of hospital readmission and emergency department (ED) utilization will be a crucial strategy in reducing health care costs. There has been limited research on nurse assessment and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in relation to postdischarge outcomes. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of nurse and patient assessments of discharge readiness with postdisc...