Building organisations, setting minds: exploring how boards of Dutch medical specialist companies address physicians' professional performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Governments worldwide are reforming healthcare systems to achieve high quality and safe patient care while maintaining costs. Self-employed physicians reorganise into novel organisations to meet reconfiguration demands, impacting their work environment and practice. This study explores what strategies these novel organisations use to address physicians' professional performance and what they encounter when executing these strategies to achieve high quality and safe care.

Methods

This constructivist exploratory qualitative study used focus groups to answer our research question. Between October 2018 and May 2019, we performed eight focus group sessions with purposively sampled Medical Specialist Companies (MSCs), which are novel physician-led organisations in the N

SUBMITTER: Debets MPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8818234 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature