... their patients with the highest quality care delivered within the constraints of available resources. Furthermore, the tension has a detrimental impact on the quality and safety of patient care in EDs, causing dissatisfaction and reduced staff morale (ACEM, 2021a). Thus, ACEM recommends a systems approach...

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... publicly available data. We focus on horizontal acute mergers as these make up most of the transactions occurring during our study period. Based on our findings, we consider the implications for hospital merger policy. Hospitals Mergers Quality Quantitative techniques Patient care Organisational...

... safety and care quality. Whistleblowing Patient care Quality healthcare Speaking up Whistleblowing continues to bring healthcare scandals to light, reports into poor standards of care highlight its contribution to the detection and prevention of harm to patients (Kennedy, 2001 ; Francis...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Innovation Complexity Patient care Mobile bone density scanning services Osteoporosis Healthcare context Comparative case studies Healthcare systems are increasingly complex, reflecting fragmentation of services across professionals, services...

... of patients with AAP across the acute care delivery chain, using a novel method of repeated interviews, and to demonstrate how fundamental care can be delivered, in clinical practice, to ensure positive patient experiences. Healthcare Hospitals Patient care Interviews Qualitative research Nursing...

.... 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 studies indicate that approximately 5-10 per cent of hospitalised patients in high-income countries experience...

... safety Medication errors Communities of practice Managerial intervention Systems approach Clinical ownership Patient care Internationally, “systems” approaches have become the orthodoxy in governing patient safety. By distinguishing between the individual's actions in making an error...

... study. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Technology Adoption Adaptation Quality assurance Quality audits Health services United Kingdom Patient care Quality of care has accelerated to the top of the health agenda in recent years; it is currently a topic of major public...

... for better patient care. Junior doctors are more likely to bring or embrace new ideas, and recognize the importance of transparency and integration of technology into healthcare systems. Engaging with junior doctors in collaborative processes, rather than focusing on their more senior colleagues, may create...

... into potentially negative effects on patient care. Although the high emotional cost of caring is identified in the literature, it is rarely discussed in the media, and the reality of what is involved is overlooked in trusts. In order to convey what a typical day was like, Benner and Wrubel (1989) described...

...; therefore these mobility barriers make the strategic groups within an industry relatively stable over time (Caves and Porter, 1977 .) Mobility barriers, however, are not insurmountable. For example, patient care is a significant barrier in the long‐term care industry (Zinn et al., 1994). A recent...

... in providing more needs‐oriented patient care. This study uses a qualitative approach in its investigation of three open care units for child and adolescent psychiatric care. Each unit is in a medium‐sized Swedish city. All units have similar responsibilities and operate under similar conditions...

... for instrumentation. There were also instances were nurses commented upon the quality of surgical and anaesthetic practice, normally in relation to rushing procedures in order to “get out of the unit early” and the implications for patient safety. Knowledge management Workplace training Patient care...

... Integration Communication Patient care Doctors Management roles Long gone are the days when patients were cared for by just one physician and their nurse. Increasingly, specialists from a variety of professions are needed to treat almost any health care problem. Integrating the knowledge of all...

... Limited 2009 Patient care Safety measures Psychology Sociology Organizational behaviour Service improvements Organisational behaviour research and theories are already helping with the safety challenges, and have more to offer, as discussed below. Organisation behaviour research (OBR...

.... Joanne F. Travaglia can be contacted at: j.travaglia@unsw.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Patient care Quality improvement Sociology Australia The practice of medicine has been deemed an “inherently risky enterprise” (Vincent, 2006 , p. 1) with risks to both...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Leadership Health services Safety Patient care Qualitative research Australia In this paper, we highlight how the capacity for accreditation research can be realised by drawing upon the experience of a range of stakeholders who together provided...

...Roslyn Sorensen; Rick Iedema Purpose This paper aims to understand the impact of emotional labour in specific health care settings and its potential effect on patient care. Design/methodology/approach Multi‐method qualitative ethnographic study undertaken in a large ICU in Sydney, Australia...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 National Health Service Service improvements Patient care Clinical governance United Kingdom A number of commentators have highlighted the potential for clinical microsystems (CMS) to aid improvement within healthcare systems and produce high...