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Knowledge sources affecting decision-making among social and health care managers.

Outi O Simonen, Elina E Viitanen, Juhani J Lehto, and Anna-Maija AM Koivisto

J Health Organ Manag 23(2):183-99 (2009) PMID 19711777

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how managers in social and health care evaluate the knowledge sources affecting their decision-making, and how the evaluations were associated with the managers' professional background, activity sector, gender, age and management experience.

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