The gold standard of management? Evidence-based management and healthcare delivery.

This article presents ideas from a current debate in the field of Management Studies, which suggests that healthcare organisations should take an evidence-based approach to their management practice. Such arguments form part of a broader move toward the standardisation of knowledge and practice in healthcare organisations, and an overriding concern with organisational efficiency. However the complexity of healthcare decision-making and evidence-selection make this process problematic, including in primary care.