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Gli effetti della partecipazione alle decisioni nelle organizzazioni: analisi della letteratura e riflessioni per la ricerca
No full textThe Wisdom of Networks: Matching Recommender Systems and Social Network Theories
No full textThis paper aims to analyzing the match between social network theories and recommender systems. Several social network theories provide explanations on why nodes link to each others. At the same time, recommender systems recommend users to connect to some items according to different internal algorithms. The study identifies the theoretical mechanisms behind the main types of recommender algorithms, and specifically behind network-based ones. Main design implications for recommender algorithms are derived
Gerarchia e partecipazione online: teorie e esperienze organizzative
No full textL’innovazione tecnologica cui assistiamo da circa vent’anni ha stravolto il modo di lavorare e di socializzare aumentando le opportunità di collaborazione e di partecipazione al di là dei confini organizzativi, professionali e sociali. Lungi però da essere una panacea, la tecnologia può essere attivata in maniera diversa - verso la gerarchia o verso la partecipazione - a seconda dei processi di interazione tra tecnologia e contesto organizzativo e sociale.
Questo studio prende spunto dall’email, il primo sistema di comunicazione mediato dal computer, per sviluppare dei modelli di riferimento per comprendere l’uso delle tecnologie di comunicazione e di collaborazione. I casi di studio riguardano l'uso della tecnologia di comunicazione in una multinazionale del settore software e in una grande Agenzia Pubblica nel mezzo di un cambiamento strategico e organizzativo: due casi per comprendere gli estremi dell’uso della tecnologia in cui siamo ormai immersi
Seeking Performance in Long-Term Care Organisations
No full textThe provision of high quality long-term care (LTC) for the elderly is an important but challenging goal for LTC national systems and LTC providers. Yet, considering the multidimensionality of the concept of quality, the vulnerability of many LTC recipients, the inevitable scarcity of resources (due also to the tightening of public health spending) and the importance of informal care, LTC quality assurance is a complex task. This study analyzes quality assurance indicators used at national level or recommended at local level in selected EU countries for monitoring the service of LTC providers. This analysis has the goal to assess the link between LTC system organization and LTC monitoring of performance measures of LTC providers in the following EU countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the U
La scelta delle fonti informative nell’assistenza primaria
No full textOttenere la giusta informazione, per il giusto paziente, al tempo giusto è un problema sempre più sentito dai medici, specialmente nell’assistenza primaria. Lo studio sintetizza la letteratura sui bisogni informativi e le fonti informative dei medici e analizza il caso dei pediatri di libera scelta in 4 regioni italiane. Lo studio evidenzia che i pediatri utilizzano diverse fonti a seconda dei bisogni informativi che dichiarano. Usando una misura di prestigio basata sulla social network analysis, i risultati rivelano che l’utilizzo di fonti basate sulle evidenze è più probabile tra i pediatri che più degli altri sono consultati per pareri clinici dagli altri pediatri. Infine il contesto organizzativo dei pediatri, in particolare il modello associativo adottato, ha un ruolo sia nella configurazione dei bisogni informativi sia nelle scelte delle fonti da usare.
Getting the right clinical advice, for the right patient, at the right time is a growing problem for physicians, particularly in primary care. The study summarizes the literature on the information seeking behavior of physicians and analyzes the case of primary care pediatricians in four Italian regions. The results show that pediatricians use different sources depending on the information needs that state. Using a measure of prestige based on social network analysis, results reveal that the use of evidence-based sources is more likely among pediatricians that more than others are consulted for advice from other pediatricians. Eventually, the organizational context of pediatricians, particularly the associative model adopted, has a role in both the configuration of information needs and in the choice of information sources to use
Quality Assurance Indicators of Long-Term Care in European Countries
No full textThis study reports on the quality indicators that were collected by the ANCIEN project partners in each country
considered in Work Package 5 (Quality in Long-Term Care). The main contribution of this report is a classification of
the quality assurance indicators in different European countries according to three dimensions: organisation type
(indicators applied to formal institutional care – FIC, formal home-based care – FHBC, formal home nursing care -
FHNC, and informal home care - IHC); quality dimensions (indicators about effectiveness, safety, patient value
responsiveness, or coordination) and system dimensions (input, process, or outcome indicators). The countries that
provided quality indicators, which are used at a national level or are recommended to be used at a local level by a
national authority, are: Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and
the United Kingdom. In total, we collected 390 quality indicators. Each quality indicator has been assigned to one or
more options in each dimension
The Influence of Technology on Long-Term Care Systems
No full textNew technologies may have a beneficial impact on long-term care (LTC) systems by improving
the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of LTC provision, and even by decreasing the need for LTC in the
first place. Given the great uncertainty about the diffusion and implementation of available technology, there
is little point in trying to make quantitative forecasts about the impact of technology. A more useful approach
is to study the mechanisms through which technology can have an impact on LTC. This is the subject of
Work Package 4 of the ANCIEN project. Both generally and via a number of case studies, it develops a
framework to analyse the impact of technology on LTC. The functioning of this framework is illustrated by
considering a number of specific long-term conditions, such as dementia, obesity and diabetes
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