How Quality Improvement Projects Influence Organizational Culture

How quality improvement projects influence organizational culture.

Investigating organizational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organizational culture, professional involvement and the quality of care in European hospitals: the 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality Improvement in Europe

Background: Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies. Knowledge of the effectiveness of these strategies, implemented as part of an overall hospital quality improvement system, is limited. Methods/Design: We propose to study the relationships among organisational quality improvement systems, patient empowerment, organisational culture, professionals’ ...

Organizational Influence Processes In Software Process Improvement

In this paper we investigate organizational influence processes in software process improvement. We analyze an improvement effort through the lenses of organizational influence theory. Our analysis suggests that the framework can explain several significant organizational complexities in software process improvement. Further, the framework point to relevant actions for managers of software proc...

The Association of Organizational Culture and Quality Improvement Implementation With Neonatal Outcomes in the NICU.

INTRODUCTION Studies of adult patient populations suggest that organizational culture is associated with quality improvement (QI) implementation, as well as patient outcomes. However, very little research on organizational culture has been performed in neonatal patient populations. METHOD This combined cross-sectional survey and retrospective cohort study assessed employee perceptions of orga...

Exploring the fit between organizational culture and quality improvement in a home-care environment.

BACKGROUND Overseeing the quality of community-based, home-care services is a subject of concern in most jurisdictions confronted with population aging and the rise of chronic conditions. Although various quality management strategies have been used in different health care settings, continuous quality improvement (CQI) is still in the early stages of development among home-care service provide...