Although classic models of implementation emphasized the importance of innovation
characteristics in their adoption and sustained use, contemporary implementation research …

This article summarizes an extensive literature review addressing the question, How can we
spread and sustain innovations in health service delivery and organization? It considers …

Background Many interventions found to be effective in health services research studies fail
to translate into meaningful patient care outcomes across multiple contexts. Health services …

Background Quality improvement (QI) efforts have become widespread in healthcare,
however there is significant variability in their success. Differences in context are thought to …

Elicitation is the process of extracting expert knowledge about some unknown quantity or
quantities, and formulating that information as a probability distribution. Elicitation is …

Diffusion of innovations in health service organisations Diffusion of Innovations in Health
Service Organisations A systematic literature review Page 2 Diffusion of Innovations in Health …

Objectives To evaluate the extent to which intensive care units participating in the initial
Keystone ICU project sustained reductions in rates of catheter related bloodstream …

One important factor influencing the successful implementation of system-wide change is
initial readiness. Readiness is defined as the degree to which those involved are …

Objective To explore the introduction of a centrally stored, shared electronic patient record
(the summary care record (SCR)) in England and draw wider lessons about the …

The present study integrates institutional factors and employee-based collective processes
as predictors of 2 key implementation outcomes: implementation effectiveness and …