... Organizational change Health services Qualitative techniques Leadership Healthcare systems have turned to a variety of “improvement strategies” aimed at promoting, enabling and encouraging change to happen (Walshe, 2003). Quality improvement has been one such effort to achieve better patient outcomes...

... Limited 2003 National Health Service Management Research Qualitative techniques Evidence‐based practice United Kingdom In order to illustrate the contrast between the values underlying the research agenda and those underpinning the reforms it is necessary to summarise some...

... this often involved rushing and juggling with her time. Four of the women wanted to work part‐time to give themselves more time with the family and feel less stressed by the “pulls” of both work and the family (see Table I). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Doctors Part‐time work Qualitative techniques...

... and genuinely influence its ultimate shape. Content analysis then permits such input to be analysed for general trends and concrete suggestions. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Internal communications Qualitative techniques Quantitative techniques National Health Service Problem solving...

...[ 10 ],and Gordon[ 11 ] all offer advice on the data which should be collected on culture. It was therefore decided that data should be collected on the following 19 aspects of culture: © MCB UP Limited 1995 Corporate culture Methodology National Health Service Qualitative techniques...

...Virginia Hayden Market research is now being conducted by managers and health care professionals within the NHS. Very little of this research to date has been qualitative, although qualitative techniques would be most appropriate to investigate the perceptions of patients, and to compare...