... individualised to them and utilising their intrinsic feelings of social responsibility. The second policy utilises a financial commitment given by the patient at the time of booking. The different mechanisms of influencing patient behaviour are based on two different views of what motivates individuals’ actions...

... the infrastructure for improvement (Dixon-Woods et al., 2011a, b, 2012 ; Aveling et al., 2012). Quality Patient care Safety Behaviour Hospitals Executives Health systems worldwide face challenges in ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality care (Wachter, 2010); adverse event...

.../approach In the animal world, males of many species display in order to induce females to mate. Such lekking behaviour involves inter alia, strutting, puffing out, catching attention via the use of ornamental physical characteristics, exhibiting gaudily‐coloured body parts, singing or splashing...

... and felt about bullying behaviour, which was fundamental to the structure of nursing itself. Despite the terrible repercussions, physical and psychological, victims remained unaware that they were being bullied until it was pointed out to them by another. The guilt feelings that seem to be inherent...

... commitment, physician extra‐role behavior); physician health promotion attitudes (physician knowledge about health promotion, physician felt responsibility for health promotion); and institutional characteristics (emergency department size and location, emergency department “busyness” and patient mix...

... or effort, as the others (secondary pursuits). Figure 1 depicts this framework graphically. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Hospital managers Behaviour Although the amount written on management is voluminous, a great deal of its corpus is anecdotal and opinion‐based...

...Rita Mano‐Negrin; Brian Mittman Explores the underlying behavioral processes influencing the clinical behavior of physicians toward their patients. Utilizing educational and social influence explanatory models as a baseline, we sought how each, through peer group settings, would affect clinical...