title: [Reorganizing departments - an opportunity to formalize procedures for cross-specialty care in public hospitals].
abstract: Among the reforms promoted by the Ministry of Health to reverse the compartmentalization within French hospital departments, "new governance" is a core element of the "Hôpital 2007" plan. Public hospitals are free to reorganize their departments into a different and more rational structure. This reorganization requires that the new departments reach a critical size and bring together units according to three complementary approaches: medical, administrative, and cultural. This reorganization process provides an opportunity to improve cross-specialty "individualized" care by formalizing procedures and protocols that help healthcare personnel to cooperate. The success of this reform essentially depends on a real commitment by all staff - workers, professionals, and managers - to improve patient care.
authors.affiliation: Département d'Information Médicale des Hospices Civils, Lyon. antoineduclos@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Duclos
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Couray-Targe
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Perrin
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Marian
authors.forename: Cyrille
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Colin
mesh_terms: D005602:France; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care