Teamwork, organizational learning, patient safety and job outcomes

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 420-432

  Goh, Swee C ^a   Chan, Christopher ^b,c   Kuziemsky, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative team learning; Health services sector; Learning organizations; Organizational learning; Patient safety; Team working

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SAFETY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84879734852     PISSN: 09526862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJHCQA-05-2011-0032     Document Type: Article

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