Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 26 Issue 4

Building effective clinical teams in healthcare

Zoheir Ezziane, Mahiben Maruthappu, Lynsey Gawn, Emily A. Thompson, Thanos Athanasiou, Oliver J. Warren

This article aims to review teamwork and the creation of effective teams within healthcare.

Medical leadership and engagement: no longer an optional extra

John Clark

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the factors that are leading many international health systems to seek new ways of getting doctors to be more engaged in management…

Redefining the school nurse role: an organizational perspective

Guylaine Chabot, Marie‐Pierre Gagnon, Gaston Godin

This paper aims to identify organizational readiness for change towards adoption of a redefined role of the school nurse as a strategic option in the context of a health promoting…

Motivation and retention of health workers in Ghana's district hospitals: Addressing the critical issues

Francis A. Adzei, Roger A. Atinga

This study seeks to undertake a systematic review to consolidate existing empirical evidence on the impact of financial and non‐financial incentives on motivation and retention of…

Managing clinical integration: a comparative case study in a merged university hospital

Soki Choi, Ingalill Holmberg, Jan Löwstedt, Mats Brommels

This paper seeks to explore critical factors that may obstruct or advance integration efforts initiated by the clinical management following a hospital merger. The aim is to…

Trends in telemedicine assessment indicate neglect of key criteria for predicting success

Duncan E. Jackson, Sally I. McClean

This innovative analysis aims to quantify the use of evaluation criteria in telemedicine and to identify current trends in metric adoption. The focus is to determine the frequency…

Managerialism and professional strategies: a case from nurses in Portugal

Teresa Carvalho

There have been profound changes in the Portuguese national health system (NHS), instigated under the influence of managerialism and the new public management (NPM) “philosophy”…

Knowledge structures of a health ecosystem

Harri Laihonen

This paper aims to hypothesize that modern health systems are transforming towards what has been called a health ecosystem in complexity‐based health care literature. It has been…