Healthcare resilience: a meta-narrative systematic review and synthesis of reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested global healthcare resilience. Many countries previously considered 'resilient' have performed poorly. Available organisational and system frameworks tend to be context-dependent and focus heavily on physical capacities. This study aims to explore and synthesise evidence about healthcare resilience and present a unified framework for future resilience-building.

Design

Systematic review and synthesis of reviews using a meta-narrative approach.

Setting

Healthcare organisations and systems.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Definitions, concepts and measures of healthcare resilience. We used thematic analysis across included reviews to summarise evidence on healthcare resilience.

Results

The main paradigms wit

SUBMITTER: Tan MZY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10514640 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature