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. 2012 Sep 18;90(3):421–456. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2012.00670.x

TABLE 1.

Preliminary Search Terms by Concept

Health Services and Transformation Health Care Reform Surgery Lean and Quality Improvement Patient-Centered Care and Primary Health Care Renewal
Health Services Quality of health care Health care access Lean culture Patient-Centered Care
 Health care system Organizational efficiency Surgical ward Lean practices Patient-centered care
 Health services, e.g., adolescent, community, child, community health nursing, community mental health, community, pharmacy, home care, maternal, occupational, preventive, dental, emergency, health services for the aged, indigenous mental health, nursing, personal, pharmaceutical, rehabilitation, reproductive, rural, suburban, primary, regional health planning, community health planning, regional medical programs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, comparative health system, “delivery of health care,” “delivery of health care, integrated,” managed care programs, telemedicine, multi-institutional systems Health care reform Surgery Lean organizations Patient-focused care
Health care reform (methods) Surgical specialties, e.g., general, colorectal, gynecology, neurosurgery, obstetrics, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, plastic, thoracic, traumatology, abdominal, ambulatory, breast, cancer, cardiovascular, ear, nose, throat, elective, emergency, endocrine, eye, geriatric, head and neck, minimally invasive, orthopedic, pediatric, pelvis, thorax, transplantation, urologic Organizational efficiency Medical homes
Health policy Quality of health care Patient-centered nursing
Organizational culture Value-optimizing services Primary Health Care Renewal
Organizational policy Releasing time to care Primary health care
Policymaking Toyota production method Integrated health services
Cooperative behavior Waste (eliminating or reducing) Polyclinics
Engagement Interdisciplinary care
Systems theory Multidisciplinary care
Complex adaptive systems Integrated care
Organizational models Coordinated care
Chronic disease management
Systems Transformation
 Organizational innovation
 Entrepreneurship transformation processes
 Organizational case studies
 Organizational changes
 System changes
 System transformation
 Comparative health systems
 Changes in organization and administration