Organisational culture is an anthropological metaphor used to inform research and consultancy and to explain organisational environments. Great emphasis has been placed during the last years on the need to change organisational culture in order to pursue effective improvement of healthcare performance.

However, the precise nature of organisational culture in healthcare policy often remains underspecified and the desirability and feasibility of strategies to be adopted has been called into question.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;1:CD008315
Authors: Parmelli E, Flodgren G, Schaafsma ME, Baillie N, Beyer FR, Eccles MP
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