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Table 2 Example 1 “template”

From: The missing link: toward an assessment of innovation capacity in health care organizations

Arguments: sources of impact

I legitimacy

II value

III change readiness

Leadership

Provenance

Tradition as authority

 Decisions lie exclusively with physician

Physician’s values supersede patient’s

Reference to founding father of medicine Hippocrates

Inclusiveness

Currency

Concept of evolution

 Patient’s status as participant depends on physician

Moral values based on deontological ethics

Principles of medicine are immutable

Governance

Quantity

Image of self

 Decisions are made unilaterally based on professional status

Non applicable

Physician as upholder of superior a-topical standards