Organizational culture and the implementation of person centered care: Results from a change process in Swedish hospital care

Health Policy

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 294-301

  Alharbi, Tariq Saleem J ^a   Ekman, Inger ^a   Olsson, Lars Eric ^a   Dudas, Kerstin ^a   Carlström, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Organizational culture; Person centered care; Public health; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT CARE; PERSON CENTERED CARE; RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; UNCERTAINTY CARDIOVASCULAR POPULATION SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870057402     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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