RETRACTED CHAPTER: Use of Causal Loop Diagrams to Improve Service Processes

Quality improvement as a primary approach to change in healthcare: a precarious, self-limiting choice?

“…Third, academic-practice collaboration towards linking management, organisational, social and quality improvement science is pivotal 3 19 20 31 32 44 45. Collaboration opportunities include designing and evaluating balanced change approaches, integrating balanced change approaches and emotional experience measures into improvement initiatives, using the Limits to Growth archetype,28–30 46 47 and advancing novel theories of quality management (the ‘how’ and ‘why’). Building on past (National Science Foundation Transformations to Quality Organisations initiative,20 McLoughlin Colloquium on the Epistemology of Improving Quality, Academy of Management-Institute of Medicine Knowledge Sharing Project , Health Management Research Alliance Brilliance Project ) and current (Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability, The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, Organisation Theory in Healthcare Association, National Science Foundation Centre for Health Organisation Transformation initiative) interdisciplinary partnerships is important in this regard.…”