In recent years, the global public health community has increasingly recognized the
importance of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in the fight to improve outcomes, decrease …

Background A widespread assumption across health systems suggests that greater
clinicians' involvement in governance and management roles would have wider benefits for …

Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a comparative and
international view on the appropriate use of strategic management models that are affecting …

Background Healthcare systems worldwide increasingly value the contribution of employee
voice in ensuring the quality of patient care. Although employees' concerns are often dealt …

National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider
outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital …

Formal metrics for monitoring the quality and safety of healthcare have a valuable role, but
may not, by themselves, yield full insight into the range of fallibilities in organizations.'Soft …

Purpose To assess the present patient safety culture of three general hospitals in Saudi
Arabia, as perceived by nurses. Design This study utilized a descriptive, cross‐sectional …

Purpose The importance of hospital board engagement in the work of governing healthcare
quality has been demonstrated in the literature. Research into influences on effective …

Background There is compelling evidence to suggest that some (or even many) NHS staff
feel unable to speak up, and that even when they do, their organisation may respond …

Background The implementation of strategic health system change is often complicated by
informal 'politics' in healthcare organisations. Leadership development programmes …