Qualitative analysis of the organisational response of a university hospital during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis.
BMJ Open Qual
; 11(2)2022 06.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1891845
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The COVID-19 pandemic has required urgent organisational and managerial adaptation, with hospital medical and administrative leaders under considerable pressure.METHODS:
At a single French university hospital, we performed a sociological analysis of management adaptation by medical and administrative leaders during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. Two sociologists performed interviews with representative members of staff from all the structures involved in managing the crisis to analyse adaptation and the solutions found during this period.RESULTS:
The answers collected during interviews were classified into three main topics describing the organisational adaptations of the hospital staff during the COVID-19 crisis (1) exceptional mobilisation and collaboration; (2) crisis management based primarily on the principle of subsidiarity; and (3) survival of the administrative structure with interventions to support caregivers.CONCLUSION:
This study, focusing on a single hospital, identified a number of factors associated with successful mobilisation in the very specific conditions of this viral pandemic.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Bmjoq-2022-001817
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