Performance governance for Public Value creation in healthcare. Empirical evidences from Emilia-Romagna public hospitals

Journal title MECOSAN
Author/s Luca Papi, Riccardo Ievoli, Giorgia Gobbo, Enrico Deidda Gagliardo, Lamberto Manzoli
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/117
Language Italian Pages 32 P. 27-58 File size 735 KB
DOI 10.3280/MESA2021-117003
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The finalization of hospitals’ performance cycle towards Public Value (PV) can represent a way to overcome the trade-off between efficiency and improvement of social and healthcare impacts. The paper exploits the adequacy of the systematization, programming and reporting tools of performance in hospitals, which can be documented through the presence of useful performance information to support their governance towards the generation of PV. The results of the documentary analysis show a lack of presence of performance governance elements in the systematization, programming and reporting documents of the 13 public hospitals investigated in the Emilia-Romagna Region and the need to deepen the scientific debate on the concept of PV in the healthcare sector

Keywords: Public hospitals, performance cycle, performance governance, equitable and sustainable well-being, public value, public value governance.

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