Uncertainty in health care environments: myth or reality?

Health Care Manage Rev. 2004 Jan-Mar;29(1):31-9. doi: 10.1097/00004010-200401000-00005.

Abstract

Health care leaders and analysts typically describe the health care environment as dynamic, complex, and highly uncertain. This study conceptualizes environmental uncertainty as an individual perception that blends subjective and objective realities derived from the complexity and dynamism of the organizational task environment. Exploratory judgments of the complexity and dynamism of the environment of health care organizations are included.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel*
  • Efficiency, Organizational
  • Health Facility Environment*
  • Health Services Administration*
  • Humans
  • Leadership
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Culture*
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Social Environment
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Uncertainty*