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Resilience of hospitals in an age of disruptions: a systematic literature review on resources and capabilities

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  • Nunzia Carbonara
  • Roberta Pellegrino
  • Cristina De Luca

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Hospitals play a critical role in ensuring continuous and effective healthcare delivery, especially during crises. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in hospital systems, prompting a need to enhance resilience—the ability to withstand, absorb, respond to, recover from, and learn from disasters. A systematic literature review, grounded in the resource-based view, identified organizational characteristics, in terms of resources and capabilities, and their synergistic effects that bolster hospital resilience. The results demonstrate that digital technologies impact on anticipation and adaptation abilities, organizational capabilities to reorganize roles, tasks, and spaces enhance adaptability, and Inter-organizational collaborations increase the responsiveness of the hospitals. The study provides substantial theoretical and practical contributions. It expands knowledge of hospital resilience in light of recent disruptive events and promotes integration capabilities as determinants for the majority of resilience dimensions. All organisational and inter-organisational collaboration, cooperation, and coordination are deemed crucial for hospital resilience.

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  • Nunzia Carbonara & Roberta Pellegrino & Cristina De Luca, 2024. "Resilience of hospitals in an age of disruptions: a systematic literature review on resources and capabilities," Health Systems, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(3), pages 192-228, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:thssxx:v:13:y:2024:i:3:p:192-228
    DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2024.2365144
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