{"title":"Quality in health care","authors":"J. Hansson","doi":"10.1108/02689230010363115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230010363115","url":null,"abstract":"Explores the notion that the introduction of total quality management (TQM) in the public health‐care sector indicates a conceptual break with a tradition in which the authority to define and interpret the meaning of medical practice has been located solely within the medical profession. It also serves to shift the focus of medical practice away from its contextual and interactional character towards numerical representations and codification in monetary terms. Further, it is argued that the realization of management ideals in everyday practice is dependent more on the availability of pre‐existing technologies and standard procedures than on the ingenuity of particular organizational and institutional actors. These arguments are illustrated with the reutilization for TQM purposes of “local incident reports” in a Swedish hospital organization.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"14 1","pages":"357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230010363115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62515894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient perceptions of service quality","authors":"J. Carman","doi":"10.1108/02689230010363061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230010363061","url":null,"abstract":"Empirically investigates, using a conjoint methodology, the importance weights given to the attributes of quality for acute care hospital services. The study shows that consumers evaluated the technical dimensions of nursing care, physician care, and outcome as more important than the accommodation functions of hospital care, and there are significant interactions among the technical dimensions. Both sets of dimensions were important and significant, but technical quality evaluations were not influenced by the perceived quality level of the affective attributes. The relative importance of these attributes were quite stable among various subgroups of past patients.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"14 1","pages":"339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230010363061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62516136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi‐professional Learning for Nurses: Breaking the Boundaries","authors":"D. Clarke","doi":"10.1108/JMM.2002.16.1.94.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/JMM.2002.16.1.94.1","url":null,"abstract":"Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd multi professional learning for nurses breaking the boundaries nurse education in practice s to read.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 1","pages":"94-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62119306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing performance and performance management: information strategy and service user involvement.","authors":"C. Rea, D. Rea","doi":"10.1108/02689230210428643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210428643","url":null,"abstract":"The involvement of service users is extolled in National Service Frameworks and, in Wales, is one of seven standards set out in the National Service Framework for mental health services. National Service Frameworks have an important role in the UK government's performance management strategies. The strategies are retrospective in effect and offer insufficient help for service managers and others seeking to change and improve service performance. Draws on research conducted at intervals over the past four years in Swansea. In today's devolved UK, the details will be different in Wales from elsewhere but the focus is on how a number of organisations with differing responsibilities can work together to manage performance improvement. Demonstrates that change requires leadership to be dispersed across organisational boundaries. Accountability and responsibility must be horizontal and even downwards, not just upwards to government Service users can b e involved in their own care. Surveys that involve service users in their planning stages can gather information about the service issues that matter to them. Managing performance is different from performance management. It can ultimately enable services users to initiate and direct some of the improvements they want to see and to take part in the processes of change. The information systems must be locally useful for all involved, and must offer information about performance in time to affect improvement and change.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"78-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210428643","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62517369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership development in health care: what do we know?","authors":"J. Edmonstone, Jane Western","doi":"10.1108/02689230210428616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210428616","url":null,"abstract":"The NHS in England has developed a strong focus on clinical and managerial leadership. The article describes both emerging ideas on leadership models and approaches to developing leaders as a background to the description of two evaluation studies of leadership programmes for executive directors and the lessons learned for the future.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"34-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210428616","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62517601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The moderators of patient satisfaction.","authors":"J. L. Tucker","doi":"10.1108/02689230210428625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210428625","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to determine which Department of Defense (DOD) active duty patient sociodemographic, health status, geographic location, and utilization factors, predict overall patient satisfaction with health care in military facilities. A theoretical framework developed from patient satisfaction and social identity theories and from previous empirical findings was used to develop a model to predict patient satisfaction and delineate moderating variables. The major finding indicated in this study was the significance of patients' characteristics in moderating their satisfaction. Principal components factor analysis and hierarchical linear regression revealed that patient specific factors predicted patients' satisfaction after controlling for factors depicting patients' evaluations of health system characteristics. Patient specific factors provided added, although very minimal, explanatory value to the determination of patients' satisfaction. The study findings can aid in the development of targeted, objectively prioritized programs of improvement and marketing by ranking variables using patients' passively derived importance schema.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"48-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210428625","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62517700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-sector working: speech and language therapists in education.","authors":"E. McCartney","doi":"10.1108/02689230210428634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210428634","url":null,"abstract":"Current policies and practices concerning speech and language therapy provision in schools are reviewed and issues which remain to be addressed are considered A general move to cross-sector approaches has resulted in a move to indirect therapy through assistants, and the effectiveness of this requires to be established. Funding streams for therapy differ across the UK, and despite extensive research and policy development remain somewhat unclear and vulnerable. The implications for policies on 'joined up thinking\" are considered.","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 1 1","pages":"67-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210428634","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62517268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion at work: identifying the emotional climate of night nursing.","authors":"Reva Berman Brown, Ian Brooks","doi":"10.1108/02689230210446517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210446517","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper introduces the concept of the emotional climate of the workplace and explores how it both shapes and is shaped by the emotions experienced, expressed and redefined by nurses. It extracts emotional aspects of an organizational climate framework developed by Litwin and Stringer and examines these with respect to nurse's experiences. The primary research was carried out at a general hospital NHS Trust in the East Midlands of the UK using a grounded theory methodology. The research methods included semi-structured interviews and observation. The themes identified include many of those found by Litwin and Stringer, others which represent variations upon these, and a new set, which, when combined, identify the emotional climate of the organization. The findings have confirmed that the \"experiment\" of using a 33-year-old positivistic framework to investigate aspects of qualitative research has enabled a robust contribution to the conceptual area of emotional climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 4-5","pages":"327-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210446517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22138790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Executive development in healthcare during times of turbulence: top management perceptions and recommendations.","authors":"Sandra J Hartman, Stephen M Crow","doi":"10.1108/02689230210446535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210446535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this research we report an analysis of comments from managers and executives in healthcare organizations to provide insights into the strategic management needs of healthcare organizations. The comments were obtained as part of a survey that asked upper-level managers and executives to identify strategic management skill and knowledge needs in healthcare organizations. After completing the survey, the respondents were given the opportunity to comment on any topics of concern to them. A total of 67 comments, many of them extensive and insightful, were obtained. In this paper, we review the literature dealing with educational and developmental needs of healthcare managers. Much of this literature is academic in nature and permits an interesting comparison to the perspective of management and executive practitioners. Emerging from the literature was a concern for environmental turbulence and a recognition that healthcare managers are at risk of falling behind in terms of skill development under such conditions. Respondent comments suggested a recognition of the potential problems. The comments are classified into four major categories: needs and skills in turbulent conditions; program and educational needs; issue clarification; and additional comments. Moreover, the first two categories appeared to break out into a set of six additional themes, which we suggest will be important to those designing programs for executive development in healthcare during turbulent times. While the source of this research is healthcare settings in Canada and the USA, the findings should be applicable to international healthcare organizations that use strategic management concepts and practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 4-5","pages":"359-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210446535","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22138792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the impact of a PACS system on an intensive care unit.","authors":"Benita Cox, Nina Dawe","doi":"10.1108/02689230210434934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230210434934","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Describes part of a wider evaluation exercise undertaken to assess the impact of the introduction of a picture-archiving and communication system (PACS) on the adult intensive care unit (AICU) at the Royal Brompton NHS Trust in London. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the perceptions of PACS of the medical and ancillary staff working within AICU as well as to undertake a preliminary assessment of its impact on the workload of radiographers. Questionnaires, interviews and a process analysis were undertaken. The research findings indicate that the overall perception of staff towards the introduction of the PACS was positive. The impact of the system on the workload of radiographers was significant, reducing the time taken to obtain an image from 90 to 60 minutes. However, lessons to be learned for future PACS implementations include the need to ensure compatibility with existing IT systems, adequate IT support and initiatives to ensure that the benefits of PACS are communicated to the hospital at large.</p>","PeriodicalId":80033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of management in medicine","volume":"16 2-3","pages":"199-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1108/02689230210434934","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21972894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}