Public Health and Health Sector Crisis Leadership During Pandemics: A Review of the Medical and Business Literature

Sriharan, Abi; Hertelendy, Attila; Banaszak-Holl, Jane; Fleig-Palmer, Michelle M.; Mitchell, Cheryl; Nigam, Amit; Gutberg, Jennifer; Rapp, Devin; Singer, Sara J.

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“…These results show the importance of including clear pathways of mandates and delegations in crisis management plans. Sriharan et al (2021) show in their review that leaders' communication skills, adaptive competencies, and abilities to engage others for collective actions are essential competencies in leaders during a crisis. Distributed leadership was found more adaptive to the pandemic situation (Sriharan et al, 2021).…”

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“…Sriharan et al (2021) show in their review that leaders' communication skills, adaptive competencies, and abilities to engage others for collective actions are essential competencies in leaders during a crisis. Distributed leadership was found more adaptive to the pandemic situation (Sriharan et al, 2021). In described situations where no clear mandate was given to physicians on how to participate or make decisions, they felt that they were left, involuntarily, to manage a situation that required managerial involvement.…”

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Physicians' experiences of challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Nilsson

Landstad

Ekberg

et al. 2022

IJHG

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PurposeThis aim of this study was to explore how hospital-based physicians in Sweden experienced the challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when hospitals transitioned to pandemic care.Design/methodology/approachThe study has a qualitative design. Twenty-five hospital-based physicians were interviewed about their experiences from working in a hospital while healthcare organisations initially responded to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. A thematic analysis was used to analyse the empirical material.FindingsThe analysis resulted in four themes: involuntary self-management, a self-restrictive bureaucracy, passive occupational safety and health (OSH) management, and information overload. These themes reflect how the physicians perceived their work situation during the pandemic and how they tried to maintain quality care for their patients.Practical implicationsThe study gives valuable insights for formulating preparedness in regard to crisis management plans that can secure the provision of care for future emergencies in the healthcare services.Originality/valueThis paper shows that a crisis management plans in the healthcare services should include decision structures and management, measures of risk assessment and OSH management, and the maintenance of personnel wellbeing. A prepared healthcare management can preserve quality care delivery while under crisis.

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Physicians' experiences of challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

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Landstad

Ekberg

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IJHG

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“…These senior leaders had extensive experience with crisis leadership and the competencies required to lead during a healthcare crisis. 12 , 13 This included Dr. Henry’s experience during the 2003 SARS outbreak. Although the system leadership structures supported system-level decision-making, an absence of timely and accurate data created early challenges in effective decision-making at a clinical and operational level.…”

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Facing disruption: Learning from the healthcare supply chain responses in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhang

Mitchell

Kushniruk

et al. 2022

Healthc Manage Forum

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The healthcare supply chain crisis surrounding Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic presented unique and complex challenges in achieving the primary aim of supply chain management, that is, delivering the right amount of the right supplies to the right people at the right time. This article describes the key findings from a case study on PPE supply chain responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia (BC). It highlights a set of constructive response mechanisms to potential crises along healthcare supply chain. Effective and trusted leadership, a unity of purpose, integrated and robust digital infrastructure and capabilities, consistent learning, resilience building, and environmental sensing for reliable intelligence were found to be essential for preparing, for containing, and mitigating the crisis as it evolved across various phases of crisis management.

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“…EP from around the world, were at the frontline, leading the way and working with many healthcare colleagues from the various disciplines. [ 40 41 42 ]…”

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Brave

Lateef

Kiat

Yunus

et al. 2022

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock

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The practice of emergency medicine has reached its cross roads. Emergency physicians (EPs) are managing many more time-dependent conditions, initiating complex treatments in the emergency department (ED), handling ethical and end of life care discussions upfront, and even performing procedures which used to be done only in critical care settings, in the resuscitation room. EPs manage a wide spectrum of patients, 24 h a day, which reflects the community and society they practice in. Besides the medical and “technical” issues to handle, they have to learn how to resolve confounding elements which their patients can present with. These may include social, financial, cultural, ethical, relationship, and even employment matters. EPs cannot overlook these, in order to provide holistic care. More and more emphasis is also now given to the social determinants of health. We, from the emergency medicine fraternity, are proposing a unique “BRAVE model,” as a mnemonic to assist in the provision of point of care, adaptive leadership at the bedside in the ED. This represents another useful tool for use in the current climate of the ED, where patients have higher expectations, need more patient-centric resolution and handling of their issues, looming against the background of a more complex society and world.

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Public Health and Health Sector Crisis Leadership During Pandemics: A Review of the Medical and Business Literature

Cited by 51 publications

References 64 publications

Physicians' experiences of challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Physicians' experiences of challenges in working conditions related to the provision of care during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

Facing disruption: Learning from the healthcare supply chain responses in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic

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