Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 33 Issue 3

Measuring change attitudes in health care organizations: Psychometric evaluation of the “Change Attitude Scale”

Kira Isabel Hower, Holger Pfaff, Christoph Kowalski, Michel Wensing, Lena Ansmann

Measuring attitudes of healthcare providers and managers toward change in health care organizations (HCOs) has been of widespread interest. The purpose of this paper is to…

The relationship between hospital adoption and use of high technology medical imaging and in-patient mortality and length of stay

Guillermo A. Sandoval, Adalsteinn D. Brown, Walter P. Wodchis, Geoffrey M. Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between hospital adoption and use of computed tomography (CT) scanners, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines…

Lean implementation in healthcare supply chain: a scoping review

Gabriela Aline Borges, Guilherme Tortorella, Matteo Rossini, Alberto Portioli-Staudacher

The purpose of this paper is to identify the lean production (LP) practices applied in healthcare supply chain and the existing barriers related to their implementation.

Clinical pathway efficiency for elective joint replacement surgeries: a case study

Maude Laberge, André Côté, Angel Ruiz

The purpose of this paper is to define a clinical pathway for total joint replacement (TJR) surgery, estimate the effect of delays between steps of the pathway on wait time for…

Embedding hospital-based medication review: The conflictual and developmental potential of a practice

Ursula Reichenpfader, Anette Wickström, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Siw Carlfjord

The purpose of this paper is to explore the embedding of hospital-based medication review attending to the conflictual and developmental nature of practice. Specifically, this…