Nurses, doctors, management consultants and even the private sector have taken pot-shots at the cabinet minister.
There is a solid body of evidence that patient and physician characteristics influence doctors' management decisions.
Our examination of doctors' management patterns found over 50% of patients diagnosed with depression were prescribed medication.
The key strength of this study was that the retrospective design meant that the doctors' management of the patients was unbiased by, for example, any intervention.
The cluster randomised trial design is indicated in assessing the effectiveness of complex interventions [ 6] and it allows comparisons of alternative strategies such as guidelines versus conventional educational methods of influencing doctors' management of a particular problem.
Doctors, management and superior authority who are confronted by patients or public to discuss AEs should consider the distribution of perceived responsibility found in our study, even if the distribution may be felt unfair.
Implementation of care programs must be evaluated in a way that allows health services to gauge which of its components (e.g., emergency department, wards, discharge, community practitioners) and which of its stakeholders (e.g., patients, carers, nurses, doctors, management, policymakers) facilitate or create barriers to the effectiveness of the new interventions.
I think we should be moving as fast as possible to try to encourage doctor-management, as well as academic management of our universities.
He is director of the doctor of management programme and author of Rethinking Management: Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences Join the community of sustainability professionals and experts.
The doctor told management, according to court papers, that SureStep should be immediately recalled because it posed an unacceptable risk of harm to patients.
