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SynthesisMedical care research and review : MCRR2026

Defining and Measuring Organizational Transformation in Health Care: A Systematic Literature Review.

Lauren Clack, Jason Smith, Martin Charns

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Synthesis in Medical care research and review : MCRR, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren ClackUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5162-5188
Jason SmithU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA.
Martin CharnsU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7102-5331

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organizational transformation in health care is critical to achieving systemic improvements, yet it lacks a cohesive body of empirical literature. Thirty-six articles met inclusion criteria in this systematic literature review of empirical studies of whole-organization transformation describing the transformation process and measures of transformation. Studies had diverse analytic (

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Delivery of Health CareOrganizational InnovationHumansLeadershipOrganizational Cultureculture changehealth care transformationimplementation scienceorganizational transformationquality improvement

Identifiers

PMID40801357
PMCPMC12946223

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