Health services research
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Health services research · Feb 2013
The importance of a high-performance work environment in hospitals.
To examine the benefits of a high-performance work environment (HPWE) for employees, patients, and hospitals. ⋯ Our findings underscore the potential benefits for providers, patients, and health care organizations of designing work environments that value and support a broad range of employees as having essential contributions to make to the care process and their organizations.
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Health services research · Feb 2013
Hospital and surgeon variation in complications and repeat surgery following incident lumbar fusion for common degenerative diagnoses.
To identify factors that account for variation in complication rates across hospitals and surgeons performing lumbar spinal fusion surgery. ⋯ To improve the safety of lumbar spinal fusion surgery, quality improvement efforts that focus on surgeons' discretionary use of operative techniques may be more effective than those that target hospitals.