Governing the quality and safety of healthcare: a conceptual framework.

Alison Brown; Helen Dickinson; Margaret Kelaher

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Governing the quality and safety of healthcare: a conceptual framework.

May 30, 2018

Brown A, Dickinson H, Kelaher M. Soc Sci Med. 2018;202:99-107.

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Health care leadership can support the success of improvement initiatives. This commentary describes an approach to studying this important relationship through a team development lens. Drawing from the governance and health care literature, the authors suggest a framework to explore teamwork characteristics in executive staff and note gaps in understanding of how personal relationship dynamics and external factors affect board members' work.

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