Facilitators and barriers to applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care

"the quality improvement process needs to be facilitated by stakeholders collaborating within and outside the context, who know how to initiate, perform, and evaluate quality improvement, and who have the resources to do so."

Facilitators and barriers to applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care
AC Eldh, M Fredriksson, C Halford, L Wallin, T Dahlström, S Vengberg, U Winblad
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:354

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Preferences of users of electronic medical records in hospitals

"Currently electronic medical records (EMRs) are implemented in hospitals, because of 
expected benefits for quality and safety of care...This paper quantifies the relative importance of known barriers and facilitators of EMR, experienced by the users (i.e., nurses and physicians in hospitals)"

The preferences of users of electronic medical records in hospitals: quantifying the relative importance of barriers and facilitators of an innovation
MHL Struik, F Koster, AJ Schuit, R Nugteren, J Veldwijk, MS Lambooij
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 69

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Barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations

"The purpose of the present study was to explore how healthcare innovators of process-based initiatives perceived and made sense of factors that either facilitated or obstructed the innovation implementation and diffusion."

Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study
J Barnett, K Vasileiou, F Djemil, L Brooks, T Young
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:342

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