Middle managers’ experience implementing healthcare innovations in practice

"If engaging in hypothesized roles promotes implementation effectiveness, then the middle manager role theory should be leveraged to develop an intervention to enable middle managers to fulfill hypothesized roles with the support of top managers; doing so may promote the implementation of innovations intended to reduce the gap between evidence and practice."

Elaborating on theory with middle managers’ experience implementing healthcare innovations in practice
SA Birken, LD DiMartino, MA Kirk, SD Lee, M McClelland, NM Albert
Implementation Science 2016, 11:2  doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0362-6

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The implementation leadership scale

"The ILS is a brief tool that may be used in implementation research to assess the extent to which leaders support their staff in implementing EBP."

The implementation leadership scale (ILS): development of a brief measure of unit level implementation leadership
GA Aarons, MG Ehrhart, LR Farahnak
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 45

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The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation

"Effective decision-making requires good advice, and that depends on informed use of evidence both in developing policy and in evaluating its effect once implemented."

The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation
Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee
September 2013

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Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses

"Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials that include patient-reported outcomes (PROs) often provide crucial information for patients and clinicians facing challenging health care decisions. "

Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses - Part 1: assessing risk of bias and combining outcomes
BC Johnston, DL Patrick, JW Busse, HJ Schunemann, A Agarwal, GH Guyatt
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2013, 11:109

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Getting research into practice in occupational health

"It appears that current practice in occupational health in the healthcare sector is not solidly grounded in evidence-based decision-making and strategies should be developed to improve this."

Bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health: a qualitative study among decision-makers in the healthcare sector
JM van Dongen, E Tompa, L Clune, A Sarnocinska-Hart, PM Bongers, MW van Tulder, AJ van der Beek, MF van Wier
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:57

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Learning modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice

The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has produced a set of online modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice. They work most effectively in Internet Explorer, and cover the following topics:

• Opening module
• Leading organizational change
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Needs assessment
• Implementing evidence-informed practices
• Monitoring and evaluating outcomes
• Closing module

Access the modules here.

Toward performance and quality

Longwoods have published a special issue of Healthcare Quarterly, called "Toward performance and quality." Articles include:

1. The journey toward high performance and excellent quality
2. Clinicians as designers and leaders of quality improvement
3. Bringing evidence to healthcare decision making
4. Evidence and quality, practicalities and judgements: some experience from NICE

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Practice facilitation within primary care settings

"Practice facilitation has a moderately robust effect on evidence based guideline adoption within primary care."

Systematic review and meta-analysis of practice facilitation within primary care settings
NB Baskerville, C Liddy, W Hogg
Annals of Family Medicine, 2012, 10(1):63-74

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