Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 36 Issue 1

Psychosocial antecedents of knowledge sharing in healthcare research centers: a mixed-methods approach

Tiago Gonçalves, Carla Curado, Andrea Raymundo Balle

Literature addressing psychosocial factors’ relation with knowledge sharing in healthcare organizations is still scarce, being of extreme shortage in specific environments, such…

Assessing organizational culture in public mental healthcare service organizations

Maria Prodromou, George Papageorgiou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate aspects of organizational culture among the nursing staff of public mental health services organizations in Cyprus. Specifically…

Potential, challenges and pitfalls of pay-for-performance schemes: a narrative review evaluating the merits for the Australian home care sector

Alex Veen, Timothy Bartram, Fang Lee Cooke

This qualitative narrative review aims to identify and evaluate the potential, challenges and pitfalls of pay-for-performance (P4P) schemes for the home care of adults with a…

The impact of hospital accreditation in selected Middle East countries: a scoping review

Salma Khan, Taraneh Yousefinezhadi, Reece Hinchcliff

There is conflicting evidence concerning the impact of hospital accreditation programmes, including across the Middle East Region, where such programmes have been most recently…

Temporal patient trajectories: long stories in short admissions

Vibeke Kristine Scheller

The purpose of this paper is to explain how trajectory management in hospitals is challenged by the introduction of accelerated discharge schemes. The patient trajectory is formed…

Divergent notions of “quality” in healthcare policy implementation: a framing perspective

Husayn Marani, Jenna M. Evans, Karen S. Palmer, Adalsteinn Brown, Danielle Martin, Noah M. Ivers

This paper examines how “quality” was framed in the design and implementation of a policy to reform hospital funding and associated care delivery. The aims of the study were: (1…

Towards developing a comprehensive conceptual understanding of positive hospital culture and approaches to healthcare organisational culture change in Australia

Antoinette Pavithra

The key aim of this narrative literature review, therefore, is to identify the key conceptual categories that inform the construction of positive person-centred culture within…

Organizational context and the learning and change readiness climate for implementing an evidence-based shared decision-making aid in US rheumatology clinics

Larry Hearld, Allyson Hall, Reena Joseph Kelly, Aizhan Karabukayeva, Jasvinder Singh

The purpose of this study was to examine the organizational context that may support learning and change readiness climates that previous research has found to be conducive to…