Informal Networks in Disaster Medicine

Bdeir, Fadl; Crawford, John W.; Hossain, Liaquat

doi:10.1017/dmp.2016.142

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“…This could be attributed in part due to strong informal communication between organizations in the low-CPAT case, which can precipitate information sharing and referrals through informal mechanisms (e.g., ad-hoc communication, leveraging existing relationships to call colleagues in another organization to discuss a patient’s needs etc.) [ 73 74 75 ]. A higher degree of direct contact between network members, may have led organizations in low-CPAT led case to have greater awareness of the types of resources available in the Health Link, and thus directly coordinate care for patients through their frequent contact (possibly resulting in fewer referrals).…”

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Exploring Intra and Interorganizational Integration Efforts Involving the Primary Care Sector – A Case Study from Ontario

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Background: The primary care sector is uniquely positioned to lead the coordination of providers and organizations across health and social care sectors. This study explores whether intra organizational (professional) integration within a primary care team might be related to inter organizational integration between primary care and other community partners involved in caring for complex patients. Methods: Two care coordination initiatives (Health Links) were selected – one led by a primary care team with a high level of intraorganizational integration as assessed by the Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool (CPAT), and the other led by a primary care team with a low level of intraorganizational integration. A case study design involving a social network approach was used to assess interorganizational integration across six types of relationships including regular contact, perceived level of integration, referrals, information sharing, joint care planning, and shared resources. Results: Compared to the high-CPAT led case, the low-CPAT led case had higher density (more ties among organizations) in terms of regular contact, integration, and sharing of resources, whereas the opposite was true for the referral, information sharing, and joint care planning networks. Network centralization (extent to which network activity is influenced by one or a group of organizations) was higher for the high-CPAT case compared to the low-CPAT case in the integration, referrals, and joint care planning networks, while the low-CPAT case had higher centralization with regard to regular contact, information sharing, and shared resources. Conclusion: The interplay between intra and interorganizational integration remains unclear. We found no consistent differences in the patterns of ties across the six types of networks examined between the two cases. Assessing changes in network metrics for different organizations in each case over time, and supplementing network findings through in-depth interviews with network members are key next steps to consider.

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“…These networks are growing in critical situations where the need for cooperation is increasing. The application and usefulness of informal networks have been investigated in various studies (Bdeir et al, 2017). In fact, it can be said that the formal organization is like the skeleton of the organization, while the informal organization is the central nervous system (Krackhardt & Hanson, 1993).…”

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“…A study showed that informal relationships increase collaboration and the knowledge sharing flow within the organization (de Toni & Nonino, 2010). The results of a study showed that informal networks promote formal and temporary community-based networks, thus improving the effectiveness of disaster medicine and public health preparedness (Bdeir et al, 2017). Creswick et al examined the three networks including problem-solving, medication advice-seeking and socializing networks in an Australian hospital ED.…”

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Hospital managers’ communication networks: A mixed-method study

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Jaefaripooyan

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Chinese Public Administration Review

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This study analyzed the problem-solving and advice-seeking networks of hospital managers working in hospitals affiliated to a university of medical sciences in Iran. This was a mixed-method study and was conducted in two stages. Initially, by conducting a qualitative study, key actors related to the hospital’s managers’ problem-solving and information/advice-seeking networks were identified and the next stage was conducted using social network analysis to identify powerful actors in the network. A questionnaire was used to collect data related to network analysis. Network properties were analyzed using density, degree centrality, and betweenness centrality. When hospital managers need help to solve work-related problems, they usually ask the university’s budget experts, followed by the University’s budget manager, the University’s financial manager, and the University’s deputy of management development and resources. In the financial advice-seeking network, the most common target of managers was the University’s financial manager, University’s budget manager, and University’s budget experts. This means that hospital managers usually seek financial advice from these people. Hospital Managers need to have a better understanding of invisible relationships because these relationships improve or may worsen collaboration and enable knowledge sharing in the organization and thus influence the decision-making process of managers.

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“…It is unclear how the authors of previous work on this topic identified and coded coordination ties in formal documents. Moreover, informal networks have only been studied by a few scholars (e.g., Bdeir et al, 2017), and thus comprise an underresearched area of investigation. Network typologies should be developed to explicate the wide range of interactions among organizations participating in emergency management.…”

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A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance

Yeo

Kapucu

2022

The American Review of Public Administration

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Although network analysis has gained much attention in emergency management studies, there are few systematic reviews of emergency management network studies in public administration. After reviewing 44 journals, this article identified and reviewed a total of 58 studies that conducted network analysis in the context of emergency management. Based on existing literature, this article summarizes the common and unique factors driving network formation and development, describes the structural characteristics of emergency management networks, and reports the performance measures that have been used to evaluate network performance. It concludes by addressing research gaps, presenting propositions and recommendations for future research, and highlighting implications for emergency management practice. The context of this review is emergency management, but the three network research streams focused upon—network formation and development, network properties, and network performance—are relevant to all management and policy domains. This review also underscores the need to further explore the dynamic process of network formation and outcomes of network relationships and structures.

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Informal Networks in Disaster Medicine

Abstract: The results showed that informal networks promoted community-based ad hoc and formal networks, thus making overall disaster medicine and public health preparedness more effective. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:343-354).

Cited by 9 publications

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Exploring Intra and Interorganizational Integration Efforts Involving the Primary Care Sector – A Case Study from Ontario

Exploring Intra and Interorganizational Integration Efforts Involving the Primary Care Sector – A Case Study from Ontario

Hospital managers’ communication networks: A mixed-method study

A Systematic Review of Empirical Emergency Management Network Research: Formation and Development, Properties, and Performance

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