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Research InterestsProfessor Jeffrey Braithwaite | | (Position Details) | | Phone Please contact School/Unit | | Qualifications BA UNE, DipLR MIR Syd, MBA Macq, PhD UNSW |
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| Australian Institute of Health Innovation | |
| | Broad Research Areas | |
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Clinical Governance
Health Services Management
Health Services Research
Health Policy
Population Health
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| | | | Specific Research Keywords | |
| Patient Safety
Evidence Based Health Care
Health Services Research
Health systems
Organisational Behaviour
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| | | | Research Interests | |
| Organisation theory and behaviour; the future of the hospital; health policy, including comparative international health policy; the management of health care agencies, especially teaching hospitals and public health sector organisations; the application of strategic management and planning techniques to health sector problems; change management, including changing behaviour of clinicians and managers
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| | | | Teaching Interests | |
| Teaching and learning activities include:
- being conferred the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, University of New South Wales, in 2004
- teaching in organisational behaviour, change management, culture change, strategy and leadership
- significant, award-winning teaching in international studies programs and presentations of many papers at extra-mural meetings and conferences
- leadership of curriculum development efforts for two new masters programs and contribution to team efforts to design a professional doctorate
- pioneering work in teaching clinicians management and leadership for the Australian College of Health Services Executives in its National Health Leadership Program and for the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. | |
| | | | Society Memberships & Professional Activities | |
| Australian College of Health Service Executives
Australian Institute of Management
Australian Association for Quality Assurance in Health Care
Industrial Relations Society of Australia
Justice of the Peace
The Sax Institute (formerly the Institute for Health Research), NSW | |
| | | | Funding Sources | |
| Australian Research Council
National Health and Medical Research Council
Clinical Excellence Commission
NSW Health Department
Affinity Health Care
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards | |
| | | | Key works/Publications | |
| Ten Selected Recent Refereed Publications
1. Braithwaite J, Iedema R and Jorm C (2007) Trust, communication, theory of mind and the social brain hypothesis: deep explanations for what goes wrong in health care, Journal of Health Organisation and Management, 21 (4/5), 353-367. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do;jsessionid=0AA7360F7353CB1A6E4EA63470BA3C0DcontainerType=Issue&containerId=25446]
a. Editorial comment on this article by Fitzgerald L, Mark A and McKee L, Journal of Health Organisation and Management, 21 (4/5): [http://www.emeraldinsight.com.wwwproxy0.nun.unsw.edu.au/Insight/ViewContentServletFilename=Published/NonArticle/Articles/02521daa.001.html].
b. Published on the website of the US national Agency for Health Care Research and Quality [http://psnet.ahrq.gov/].
2. Braithwaite J (2007) How to restructure-proof your health service, British Medical Journal, 335 (7610), 99[doi=10.1136/bmj.39272.443137.59].
a. Listed on Medical News Today, the largest health and medical news website on the Internet:[http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=76598]
b. Commentary on this paper: Mark AL (2007) Consider social anthropology, British Medical Journal, 335 (7611), 172 [BMJ 2007;335:172 (28 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.39283.413148.1F].
3. Braithwaite J, Westbrook MT, Mallock NA, Travaglia JF and Iedema RA (2006) Experiences of health professionals who conducted root cause analyses after undergoing a safety improvement program, Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15, 393-399 [doi:10.1136/qshc.2005.0175251].
a. Editorial commentary written on this paper: Wallace LM (2006). From root causes to safer systems: international comparisons of nationally sponsored healthcare staff training programmes, Quality and Safety in Health Care, 15, 388-89 [doi: 10.1136/qshc.2006.02800].
b. Summary published in: ISQua (2007) Reading Resources, Bulletin of the International Society for Quality in Health Care Inc, April, 5 [http://www.isqua.org/welcome.html].
c. Summary published in: CREPS (2007) Australian Patient Safety Bulletin Newsletter of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety, March: [http://www.crepatientsafety.org.au].
d. Published on the English NHS safer healthcare site: [http://www.saferhealthcare.org.uk/IHI/JournalScan/Journal+Scan.htm].
4. Braithwaite J, Westbrook MT, Hindle D, Iedema RA and Black DA (2006) Does restructuring hospitals result in greater efficiency?-An empirical test using diachronic data, Health Services Management Research, 19(1), 1-12[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rsm/hsmr].
a. Voted in the top 50 management journal articles in 2006 in Emerald Management Reviews [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/products_services/reviews/citations.jsp]
b. Listed on ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts database from ProQuest CSA [http://authors.csa.com/reg.shtml?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csa.com%2Fauthor_relations%2Fauthor_display.php%3Fdbidxname%3Dassia-setc%26ea%3Dj.braithwaite%40unsw.edu.au].
5. Braithwaite J (2005) Axioms for governing health systems, British Medical Journal 330 (April 30), 1032 [doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1032].
a. Reprinted in Health Manager (2005) Winter, 4-5.
6. Braithwaite J (2005) Hunter-gatherer human nature and health system safety: an evolutionary cleft stick? International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 17 (6), 541-5 [http://intqhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/mzi060?ijkey=cmiiRJZwgAzcHJD&keytype=ref].
7. Braithwaite J, Westbrook MT, Iedema R, Mallock NA, Forsyth R and Zhang K (2005) A tale of two hospitals: assessing cultural landscapes and compositions, Social Science & Medicine, 60 (5), 1149-62 [doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.06.046].
a. Published in Sociological Abstracts: [http://www.csa.com/author_relations /author_display.php?disp_num=0&SID=1ofelrafs0vsoagv3idimo1va4].
8. Braithwaite J and Goulston K (2004) Turning the health system 90 degrees down under, The Lancet, 364 (9432), 397-399 [http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/section?volume= 364&issue=9432§ion=Comment].
9. Southon G and Braithwaite J (1998) The end of professionalism? Social Science & Medicine, 46 (1), 23-8.
10. Braithwaite J (1995) Organizational change, patient-focused care: an Australian perspective, Health Services Management Research, 8 (3), 172-85.
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publicationsaugust2008.pdf | |
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| http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/ClinGov_About | |
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