Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 35 Issue 5

Broadening the concept of patient safety culture through value-based healthcare

Viktor Dombrádi, Klára Bíró, Guenther Jonitz, Muir Gray, Anant Jani

Decision-makers are looking for innovative approaches to improve patient experience and outcomes with the finite resources available in healthcare. The concept of value-based…

Perspectives of Australian hospital leaders on the provision of safe care: implications for safety I and safety II

Sandra G. Leggat, Cathy Balding, Melanie Bish

There is evidence that patient safety has not improved commensurate with the global attention and resources dedicated to achieving it. The authors explored the perspectives of…

Interprofessional teamwork: the role of professional identity and signature pedagogy – a mixed methods study

Stephanie Best, Christian Beech, Iain J. Robbé, Sharon Williams

One overlooked determinant of interprofessional teamwork is the mobilisation of professional identity. Taking a health or social care practitioner out of their professional silo…

Lessons from mandated implementation of a performance management system

Jean-Sebastien Marchand, Mylaine Breton, Olivier Saulpic, Élizabeth Côté-Boileau

Lean-inspired approaches and performance management systems are being implemented in public healthcare organisations internationally. However, the literature is inconclusive…

That's how it should work: the perceptions of a senior management on the value of decentralisation in a service delivery organisation

Mikael Ohrling, Sara Tolf, Karin Solberg-Carlsson, Mats Brommels

Decentralisation in health care has been proposed as a way to make services more responsive to local needs and by that improve patient care. This study analyses how the senior…

Staffing the unit with nurses: the role of nurse managers

Adelaide Maria Ansah Ofei, Yennuten Paarima, Theresa Barnes, Atswei Adzo Kwashie

To explore the staffing practices of nurse managers at the unit.

Access to surgical care as an efficiency issue: using lean management in French and Australian operating theatres

Zeyad Mahmoud, Nathalie Angelé-Halgand, Kate Churruca, Louise A Ellis, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Millions around the world still cannot access safe, timely and affordable surgery. Considering access as a function of efficiency, this paper examines how the latter can be…

Contextual factors influencing talk in Australian residential aged care

Madalyn Anne Scerri, Rajka Presbury

This paper offers an exploration of contextual factors that influence carer-to-resident talk in Australian residential aged care.