Background Tailored intervention strategies are frequently recommended among
approaches to the implementation of improvement in health professional performance …

Background Inappropriate polypharmacy is a particular concern in older people and is
associated with negative health outcomes. Choosing the best interventions to improve …

Social norms are patterns of behavior that are self-enforcing within a group: Everyone
conforms, everyone is expected to conform, and everyone wants to conform when they …

Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both
individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research …

Background Audit and feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve professional
practice either on its own or as a component of multifaceted quality improvement …

A central idea in marketing and diffusion research is that influentials—a minority of
individuals who influence an exceptional number of their peers—are important to the …

Health care is rich in evidence-based innovations, yet even when such innovations are
implemented successfully in one location, they often disseminate slowly—if at all. Diffusion …

Fueled by public incidents and growing evidence of deficiencies in care, concern over the
quality and outcomes of care has increased in both the United Kingdom and the United …

Few social science theories have a history of conceptual and empirical study as long as
does the diffusion of innovations. The robustness of this theory derives from the many …

This article reviews 10 techniques used to identify opinion leaders to promote behavior
change. Opinion leaders can act as gatekeepers for interventions, help change social …