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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMaking Evidence-Based Management Usable in Practice
Frontiers of Health Services Management, April, 2006 by Damore, Joseph F
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>The application of evidence-based management is a critical tool to help organizations continually improve as healthcare leaders face major challenges in improving quality and enhancing effectiveness. The father of American management theory, Peter Drucker, in his book Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), noted the "basic assumptions about reality are the paradigms of the social sciences such as management." He went on to note, "despite their importance, the assumptions are rarely analyzed, rarely studied, rarely challenged, indeed rarely even made explicit." ...
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