Grant: Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI)

The intent of this project is to develop a framework that identifies how health care organizations can be transformed to achieve excellence in priority setting and resource management. There are five proposed phases: i. literature review on evaluating priority setting; ii. national survey of senior decision makers to determine what organizational and other factors inform health care priority setting decisions; iii. in depth case study analysis of six Canadian organizations to explore the organizational factors that influence priority setting, how these factors are addressed and which factors are most relevant in determining priority setting processes and outcomes; iv. develop a framework describing the factors and organizational context that supports and/ or enables high performance in priority setting; v. apply the framework in two organizations to identify how their processes, structures and behaviors might be improved with respect to priority setting and to determine how the framework might be refined for future use. This project should fill a significant gap in the literature with findings relevant to most if not all health care organizations in Canada.