title: Organizational learning and the learning organization in health care.
abstract: Learning is seen as a systems-level phenomenon that stays within the organization regardless of the "players" involved. However, this article reviews some of the history of organizational learning and the learning organization and makes a proposal for how health care organizations are becoming learning organizations.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Dowd
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D015279:Organizational Culture; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States