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<p>During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the practical effects of the introduced legal measures is challenging due to the lack of fixed benchmarks. Accordingly, the research method used in the article is a survey conducted among employees of the Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in December 2020, in which 165 employees from different wards participated. For this purpose, the article presents the detailed description of policy regulations related to healthcare management introduced in Poland in 2020. Combining legal research and qualitative data allowed general conclusions to be drawn with regard to the quality assessment of the implemented policy measures from the perspective of healthcare professionals.</p>
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During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were introduced at a very rapid pace, did not allow the standardization of the work of the health service. Therefore, the assessment of the practical effects of the introduced legal measures is challenging due to the lack of fixed benchmarks. Accordingly, the research method used in the article is a survey conducted among employees of the Voivodeship Specialist Hospital in December 2020, in which 165 employees from different wards participated. For this purpose, the article presents the detailed description of policy regulations related to healthcare management introduced in Poland in 2020. Combining legal research and qualitative data allowed general conclusions to be drawn with regard to the quality assessment of the implemented policy measures from the perspective of healthcare professionals.

Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis

Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics

Faculty of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics

International Journal of Management and Economics

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During the state of epidemic in Poland in 2020, all facilities providing medical services were subject to constant reorganization. Legal changes, which were...

Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2022

Páginas: 192 - 217

Recibido: 19 feb 2022

Aceptado: 11 jun 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2022-0012

Palabras clave
COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals, legal regulations, management processes

© 2022 Dariusz Masłowski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Impact of policy regulations on the functioning of hospitals in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative analysis

Article Category: Empirical Paper

Publicado en línea: 30 jun 2022

Páginas: 192 - 217

Recibido: 19 feb 2022

Aceptado: 11 jun 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2022-0012

Palabras claveCOVID-19 pandemic, hospitals, legal regulations, management processes

© 2022 Dariusz Masłowski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals, legal regulations, management processes