Search for dissertations about: "thesis on hospital administration"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 63 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis on hospital administration.

  2. 11. Health care budgeting : goals, structure, attitudes

    Author : Edgar Borgenhammar; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : What purpose do budgetary tools, such as zero-base budgeting, break-down budgeting, net budget, program budget, and multi-year budget serve? Are they methods whereby planners and administrators intend to take the initiative and increase their power at the expense of the political decision-makers? Or, inversely, are they avenues to increased political influence? This dissertation analyses, characteristic by characteristic, different budgetary aspects in health care budgeting and their action alternatives. These aspects are related to three goals; priority setting, influence on action, and administrative contol. READ MORE

  4. 12. The interplay of roles and routines : situating, patterning, and performances in the emergency department

    Author : Virginia Rosales; Mattias Jacobsson; Anette Hallin; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Roles; routines; scripted; unscripted; patterns; situating; performing; patterning; emergency department; organizational ethnography;

    Abstract : This thesis took its point of departure in the lack of research regarding the intricate and important relationship between roles and routines. With roles and routines providing individuals with enough discretion to accomplish work while ensuring consistency, the overall research question posed was: how do roles and routines interplay to enable flexible performances? This question was operationalized through three sub questions: (1) why are roles and routines flexible, (2) how do roles and routines interplay, and (3) what contextual aspects influence which patterns come into play? The purpose was to increase the understanding of the interplay of roles and routines in organizations. READ MORE

  5. 13. Professional Pride and Prejudice : Negotiating leadership in an era of interprofession-based organizing

    Author : Erika Lokatt; Charlotte Holgersson; Monica Lindgren; Johann Packendorff; Ewa Wikström; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; leadership; profession; interprofession-based organizing; negotiated order; discourse; power base; subject position; space of action; organizational humor; leadership culture; healthcare; ledarskap; profession; interprofessionsbaserad organisering; förhandlad ordning; diskurs; maktbas; subjektsposition; handlingsutrymme; organisatorisk humor; ledarskapskultur; sjukvård; Industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Management;

    Abstract : Leadership has always played a peculiar role in the context of profession-based operations. Within bureaucratic yet decentralized organizational configurations – where conventional notions of labor management fall short in explaining executive functions – distributions of authority and influence have historically been inherent in strong hierarchies and meritocracies. READ MORE

  6. 14. Non-conveyed patients : a thesis on epidemiology, and patients' and ambulance clinicians' experiences

    Author : Jakob Lederman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : BACKGROUND: As a consequence of the increased overall number of ambulance assignments in combination with an increase in patients assessed as having non-urgent complaints, new demands are being placed on the ambulance service and the ambulance clinicians (ACs) regarding patient assessments and decisions. Alternative care pathways – excluding emergency departments (EDs) – such as non-conveyance, have increased over the last decade. READ MORE

  7. 15. ADL assessments after stroke: aspects on reliability. The stability between raters, instruments and modes of administration

    Author : Yvonne Daving; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : outcome assessment; stroke; activities of daily living; reproducibility; questionnaire; interview;

    Abstract : Activities in daily living, ADL are assessed as an outcome of the rehabilitation process or to be able to determine suitable interventions. The overall aim here was to analyse assessments in terms of ADL in order to investigate influences of ADL assessment and study the stability of the raters, instruments and modes of administration in assessing personal, P-ADL and instrumental, I-ADL items. READ MORE