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John C. Lammers
Associate Professor
Director of Master’s Program in Applied Communication
Education: Ph.D.,
University of California, Davis
Research Interests:
Organizational communication, health communication, work teams in health
care settings, leadership and communication in public health care.
Current Research: Professor Lammers’
current research bridges interests in organizational communication and
health communication by studying communication in health care organizations,
including hospital teams, managed care practices, surgical teams, and
public health organizations. Recent projects have examined national and
sectoral differences in hospital climate, quality improvement in health
care, group dynamics in health care teams such as surgical teams, and
ways of improving health care delivery in multinational public health
organizations.
Representative Research Publications:
Lammers, J.C., & Duggan, A. (forthcoming) Organizational
Forms of the Provision of Health Care. In K. Miller, T. Thompson, P. Dorsey,
& R. Parrott (Eds.) The Handbook of Health Communication.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
Lammers, J.C., & Duggan, A. (2002). Bringing physicians
back in: Communication predictors of physicians' satisfaction with managed
care. Health Communication 14.
Lammers, J.C. & Beudin, C. (1999). Patients’
perceptions of efforts to coordinate hospital care: The role of organized
communication. Journal of Healthcare Quality, 21(5), 18-23.
Lammers, J.C., & Krikorian, D. (1997). Surgical teams
as bona fide groups: Exploration and operationalization of a construct.
Journal of Applied Communication Research, 25, 17-38.
Lammers, J.C., & Geist, P. (1997). The transformation
of caring in the light and shadow of managed care. Health Communication,
9, 45-60.
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