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The healthcare manager as catalyst for evidence-based practice: changing the healthcare environment and changing experience.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12811089     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This thoughtful essay conveys a logically ordered series of concepts that may help develop a process to more fully integrate evidence into healthcare management decisions. In responding to this article we have tried to think broadly about what might be discovered if the ideas of Browman, Snider and Ellis were put into practice. We have chosen to focus on factors that could confound the five-point plan suggested by the authors. Browman, Snider and Ellis provide an interesting overview and advocacy for evidence-based medicine and its application. The authors recognize that the area under investigation, oncology, may lend itself more readily than others to the facilitation of evidence-based practice. They introduce the concept of healthcare as a negotiating environment and the healthcare manager as a potential catalyst for change. In their conclusions the authors offer healthcare managers a five-point plan: 1. Express the value that knowledge is a core resource. 2. Structure decision-making to involve the stewards of knowledge and stimulate negotiation while encouraging the parties to express shared goals. 3. Invest in strategies that support knowledge management, including arbitration. 4. Demonstrate leadership and develop organizational metaphors to encourage participation. 5. Share the results and experiences of evidence-based decision-making.
Authors:
Kevin P D Smith; John Woods
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comment; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  HealthcarePapers     Volume:  3     ISSN:  1488-917X     ISO Abbreviation:  Healthc Pap     Publication Date:  2003  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2003-06-17     Completed Date:  2003-08-05     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100961305     Medline TA:  Healthc Pap     Country:  Canada    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  54-7; discussion 66-71     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Decision Making, Organizational*
Diffusion of Innovation*
Evidence-Based Medicine*
Health Services Administration*
Health Services Research
Humans
Negotiating
Organizational Culture
Organizational Innovation*
Comments/Corrections
Comment On:
Healthc Pap. 2003;3(3):10-22   [PMID:  12811083 ]

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