Why Hospital Improvement Efforts Fail: A View From the Front Line

Why hospital improvement efforts fail: a view from the front line.

In the 21st century, healthcare executives are facing changes of unprecedented magnitude in virtually every area, affecting their ability to compete. That hindrance brings with it a greater need for rapid and effective organizational change and improvement. Yet changes in the U.S. healthcare delivery system have historically been criticized as slow and less than effective in responding to the c...

Why Do so Many Anti-corruption Efforts Fail?

Medicaid: A view from the front lines

The MRC randomized trial of streptomycin and its legacy: a view from the clinical front line.

From the front line, report from a near paperless hospital: mixed reception among health care professionals.

OBJECTIVE Many Norwegian hospitals that are equipped with an electronic medical record (EMR) system now have proceeded to withdraw the paper-based medical record from clinical workflow. In two previous survey-based studies on the effect of removing the paper-based medical record on the work of physicians, nurses and medical secretaries, we concluded that to scan and eliminate the paper based re...