Organizational conditions for engagement in quality and safety improvement: a longitudinal qualitative study of community pharmacies.

Denham Phipps; Christian E L Jones; Dianne Parker; Darren M. Ashcroft

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Organizational conditions for engagement in quality and safety improvement: a longitudinal qualitative study of community pharmacies.

February 6, 2019

Phipps D, Jones CEL, Parker D, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018;18(1):783.

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In this qualitative study, researchers followed the progress of the improvement work taken on by 10 English community pharmacies that participated in improvement workshops over a 1-year period. Using a behavioral change framework, they were able to describe the pharmacies' progress in their activities as well as identify particular organizational factors facilitating improvement work.

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