International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Researching the Co-Existence and Continuity of Standardization and Customization in Healthcare: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Russell Mannion
Mark Exworthy
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
10.15171/ijhpm.2018.07
Keywords
Standardization
Customization
Personalization
Competing Logics
Subjects

We thank all those who responded to our article: ‘(Re) making the Procrustean Bed: Standardization and Customizations as Competing Logic in Health Care.’1 Each commentary engaged critically with the main ideas we presented, offering some affirmation but also taking the discussion in new (and sometimes unexpected) theoretical and empirical directions... (Read more...)

  1. Mannion R, Exworthy M. (Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017;6(6):301-304. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.35
  2. AnsmannL and Pfaff  H. Mannion R, Exworthy M. (Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017;6(6):301-304. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.35
  3. Ferlie E. Personalisation - An Emergent Institutional Logic in Healthcare? Comment on "(Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017;7(1):92-95. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.71
  4. Greenfield D, Eljiz K, Butler-Henderson K. It takes two to tango: customization and standardization as colluding logics in healthcare: Comment on “(Re) Making the procrustean bed standardization and customization as competing logics in healthcare.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(2):183–185. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.77
  5. Minvielle E. Toward customized care: Comment on “(Re) making the procrustean bed? Standardization and customization as competing logics in healthcare.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.84
  6. Needham C. Best of both worlds: Comment on “(Re) Making the procrustean bed? Standardization and customization as competing logics in healthcare.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017; Forthcoming. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.99
  7. Saks M. Competing logics and healthcare: Comment on “(Re) Making the procrustean bed? Standardization and customization as competing logics in healthcare.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018; Forthcoming. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2017.100
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 7, Issue 6
2018
Pages 572-573

  • Received Date 10 January 2018
  • Revised Date 24 January 2018
  • Accepted Date 20 January 2018
  • First Published Date 01 June 2018
  • Published Date 01 June 2018