"If we build it, will it stay?" A case study of the sustainability of whole-system change in London

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 516-547

  Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a   MacFarlane, Fraser ^a   Barton Sweeney, Catherine ^a   Woodard, Fran ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complexity; evaluation; health care reform; organizational innovation; sustainability; whole system transformation

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL HEALTH; STROKE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LONDON; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; STROKE;

EID: 84866425846     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2012.00673.x     Document Type: Review

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