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Kieran Walshe

Professor of Health Policy and Management, Manchester Business School
Verified email at mbs.ac.uk
Cited by 14264

Evidence‐based management: from theory to practice in health care

K Walshe, TG Rundall - The Milbank Quarterly, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The rise of evidence‐based clinical practice in health care has caused some people to start
questioning how health care managers and policymakers make decisions, and what role …

[BOOK][B] Healthcare management

K Walshe, J Smith - 2011 - books.google.com
… This book is dedicated to our children – from Kieran to Siobhan, Ruth, Michael and
Daniel and from Judith to Richard and Kathryn. … Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health …

Realist review-a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions

…, T Greenhalgh, G Harvey, K Walshe - Journal of health …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence-based policy is a dominant theme in contemporary public services but the practical
realities and challenges involved in using evidence in policy-making are formidable. Part of …

When things go wrong: how health care organizations deal with major failures

K Walshe, SM Shortell - Health affairs, 2004 - healthaffairs.org
Concern about patient safety, caused in part by high-profile major failures in which many
patients have been harmed, is rising worldwide. This paper draws on examples of such failures …

Understanding what works—and why—in quality improvement: the need for theory-driven evaluation

K Walshe - International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Clinicians who are asked to participate in quality improvement programmes in healthcare
organizations are often heard to ask for the evidence that they ‘work’. By that, they often mean …

Foundation hospitals: a new direction for NHS reform?

K Walshe - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
The Government’s proposals to create new ‘foundation hospitals’ are moving forward rapidly,
despite considerable political opposition not least within the Labour Party itself, and deep …

[PDF][PDF] Realist synthesis-an introduction

…, T Greenhalgh, G Harvey, K Walshe - ESRC res methods …, 2004 - Citeseer
Realist review is a relatively new strategy for synthesising research, which has an explanatory
rather than judgemental focus. Specifically, it seeks to ‘unpack the mechanism’of how …

Pseudoinnovation: the development and spread of healthcare quality improvement methodologies

K Walshe - International journal for quality in health care, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background Over the last two decades, we have seen the successive rise and fall of a number
of concepts, ideas or methods in healthcare quality improvement (QI). Paradoxically, the …

[BOOK][B] Regulating healthcare: a prescription for improvement?

K Walshe - 2003 - books.google.com
Healthcare organizations in the UK and the USA face a growing tide of regulation, accreditation,
inspection and external review, all aimed at improving their performance. In the US, …

The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now

…, SM Shortell, DP Stevens, K Walshe - Annals of internal …, 2013 - acpjournals.org
Over the past 12 years, since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report,“To Err is
Human: Building a Safer Health System,” improving patient safety has been the focus of …