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Background
- Health care provided in organizational context
- behavior of clinicians influenced by the organizations in which they work
- policies (e.g. P4P) vary greatly in how they are implemented and what effects they have at the local level.
- recognition of the interconnections among components of organizations (clinical teams function within hospitals, interact with other clinical teams, —embeddedness
Notes:
Context can either facilitate or impede the adoption of best practices
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