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Microsystems in health care: Part 7. The microsystem as a platform for merging strategic planning and operations.
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In this paper, the authors identify six stages in the development of the relationship between macrosystems and micro-systems, including trust making, mitigation of constraints and barriers among departments and units, creation of a common vocabulary, raising of microsystem awareness, and facilitation of reciprocal relationships.About:
This article is published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.The article was published on 2003-09-01. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strategic planning.read more
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Integrating patient safety into the clinical microsystem
TL;DR: The microsystem unit allows organisational leaders to embed quality and safety into a microsystem’s developmental journey and can set the stage for making safety a priority for the organisation while allowing individual microsystems to create innovative strategies for improvement.
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Understanding the complexity of redesigning care around the clinical microsystem
Paul Barach,Julie K. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Together these tools offer the user and organization the ability to understand the complexity of healthcare systems and to facilitate the redesign of optimal outcomes.
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Organizational factors associated with high performance in quality and safety in academic medical centers
Mark A. Keroack,Barbara J. Youngberg,Julie Cerese,Cathleen Krsek,Leslie W. Prellwitz,Eoin W. Trevelyan +5 more
TL;DR: Common qualities shared by top performers included a shared sense of purpose, a hands-on leadership style, accountability systems for quality and safety, a focus on results, and a culture of collaboration.
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Microsystems in Health Care: Part 9. Developing Small Clinical Units to Attain Peak Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of the intensive care nursery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center illustrates the 10-year evolution of a clinical micro-system, focusing on what it takes, in the short term and long term, for clinical microsystems to attain peak performance.
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The differences in antibiotic decision-making between acute surgical and acute medical teams: An ethnographic study of culture and team dynamics
Esmita Charani,Raheelah Ahmad,Timothy M. Rawson,Enrique Castro-Sánchez,Carolyn Tarrant,Alison Holmes +5 more
TL;DR: Different, bespoke approaches to optimize antibiotic prescribing are therefore needed to address these specific challenges.
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Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
TL;DR: Rorty as discussed by the authors argues that it is literature not philosophy that can promote a genuine sense of human solidarity, and argues that a truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project for human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers.
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On organizational learning
TL;DR: The Evolving Field of Organizational Learning as discussed by the authors is a rich field of research in the field of organizational learning and it has been studied extensively in the last few decades and decades.
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Microsystems in health care: Part 1. Learning from high-performing front-line clinical units.
Eugene C. Nelson,Paul B. Batalden,Thomas P. Huber,Julie J. Mohr,Julie J. Mohr,Marjorie M. Godfrey,Linda A. Headrick,Linda A. Headrick,John H. Wasson +8 more
TL;DR: A seamless, patient-centered, high-quality, safe, and efficient health system cannot be realized without the transformation of the essential building blocks that combine to form the care continuum.
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The new peoplemaking
TL;DR: The New Peoplemaking as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work on families, with more than a million copies sold in 12 languages, including the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India.