15 October 2012

Boundaries in primary care

Managing boundaries in primary care service improvement: A developmental approach to communities of practice
Implementation Science 2012, 7:97
  • An examination of the effects of intra-organisational and inter-organisational boundaries on the implementation of service improvement within and across primary healthcare settings, and on the development of multiprofessional and multi-organisational Communities of Practice during this process.
  •  The strongest boundaries lay between individual general practices, with inter-organisational knowledge sharing and collaboration between them remaining unequally developed across different areas due to historical factors, competition and strong organisational identification