Organizing Work in Healthcare

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to present a Special Issue on healthcare management. In the last three decades, in the context of growing concern for patient safety, service quality, and financial constraints, the organization of work in healthcare has been strongly affected by reforms of all kinds: new governance, diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), mandatory quality assessment and certification procedures, coordinated pathways, the implementation of lean management, new nursing jobs, electronic health records, etc. These policies consisted mostly of the implementation from above of managerial tools and procedures developed on the basis of metrological evidence that does not always take into account the specificity of local contexts of work. These tools and procedures had an unpredictable and variable impact on work and workload. In order to better implement and assess these changes, a more pragmatic approach is needed. This Special Issue seeks manuscripts (original qualitative/quantitative research articles, reviews, opinion papers, etc.) that describe and analyze the development of work and workload in healthcare organizations. These include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Interdisciplinary teamwork;
•  The implementation of quality policies in healthcare organizations;
• The content and development of nursing work;
• Coordination activity;
• The use of IT at work.

Dr. Mathias Waelli
Dr. Emilien Jeannot
Prof. Dr. Souhayl Dahmani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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