The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
Rebecca Kolins Givan, "The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom "
English | ISBN: 0801450055 | 2016 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0801450055 | 2016 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of the United States and Great Britain. Often, as we know all too well, these efforts are not successful. In The Challenge to Change, Rebecca Kolins Givan analyzes the successes and failures of efforts to improve hospitals and explains what factors make it likely that the implementation of reforms will rewarded by positive transformation in a particular institution’s day-to-day operation. Givan’s in-depth qualitative case studies of both top-down initiatives and changes first suggested by staff on the front lines of care point clearly to the importance of all hospital workers in effecting change and even influencing national policy.
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