When trust, confidence, and faith collide: refining a realist theory of how and why inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems are facing unprecedented socioeconomic pressures as well as the need to cope with the ongoing strain brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the reconfiguration of health systems to encourage greater collaboration and integration has been promoted with a variety of collaborative shapes and forms being encouraged and developed. Despite this continued interest, evidence for success of these various arrangements is lacking, with the links between collaboration and improved performance often remaining uncertain. To date, many examinations of collaborations have been undertaken, but use of realist methodology may shed additional light on how and why collaboration works, and whom it benefits.

Methods

This paper seeks to test initial context-m

SUBMITTER: Aunger JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8235919 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature