From: The missing link: toward an assessment of innovation capacity in health care organizations
Arguments: sources of impact | ||
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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 |