Not running a hospital - blog:
The board has to be on board
3 August 2015
Those of us who have run hospitals where we've been serious about achieving improvements in quality and safety know that without a highly committed board of trustees, the results will never be sustainable. And so it is lovely to see documentation of that premise in a new article by Thomas C. Tsai, Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom, and Raffaella Sadun in Health Affairs.
This article was published online in the Not running a hospital - blog on August 3, 2015
Link to article here
Related journal article
Hospital Board And Management Practices Are Strongly Related To Hospital Performance On Clinical Quality Metrics, Thomas C. Tsai, Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom and Raffaella Sadun, Health Affairs, August 2015 vol. 34 no. 8: 1304-1311.
Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage