Primary health-care teams as adaptive organizations: Exploring and explaining work variation using case studies in rural and urban Scotland

Health Services Management Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 151-164

  Farmer, Jane ^a   West, Christina ^a   Whyte, Bruce ^b   Maclean, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS HEALTH SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NURSE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WORKLOAD;

HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH; SCOTLAND; STATE MEDICINE; URBAN HEALTH; WORKLOAD;

EID: 23844481194     PISSN: 09514848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0951484054572501     Document Type: Article

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