Strategic analysis for health care organizations: the suitability of the SWOT-analysis.

Because of the introduction of (regulated) market competition and self-regulation, strategy is becoming an important management field for health care organizations in many European countries. That is why health managers are introducing more and more strategic principles and tools. Especially the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)-analysis seems to be popular.

Interventions to improve team effectiveness: a systematic review.

Objectives: To review the literature on interventions to improve team effectiveness and identify their 'evidence based'-level.

Methods: Major data bases (PubMed, Web of Science, PsycInfo and Cochrane Library) were systematically searched for all relevant papers. Inclusion criteria were: peer-reviewed papers, published in English between January 1990 and April 2008, which present empirically based studies focussing on interventions to improve team effectiveness in health care.