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Background and Objective: Medical leadership is conceptualized as the formal management governed by the physicians. This systematic review focuses on different conceptualizations related to medical leadership with respect to its activities and roles and types of medical leaders involved in it. Methods: By undertaking PRISMA guidelines, this systematic review has searched for seven different databases to extract relevant publications on the subject of interest during the time period from February 1st 2017 to July 20th 2020. Finally, eight articles were selected that ranged from quantitative study design to systematic reviews. Results: Total 685 articles were searched, out of which 432 articles were further proceeded and finally eight articles were selected. Majority of the studies were based on systematic reviews covering international context. Type 1 medical leadership was mostly reported in studies, which refers to physicians in current leadership role and are described as medical management or medical leadership. Conclusion: This review paper has found different characteristics that are associated with the particular context in which a medical leader performs his or her role such as role ambiguity, lack of support and time and the presence of competing logics in hospitals.
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AL-Hashimi, N.M., AL-Hashimi, M. (2021). A Systematic Review on Medical Leadership in Hospital Setting. In: Alareeni, B., Hamdan, A., Elgedawy, I. (eds) The Importance of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business Development: In The Context of Economic Diversity in Developing Countries. ICBT 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69221-6_50
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