Use of the positive deviance approach for healthcare system service improvement: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Healthcare systems are currently facing challenges in enhancing access and improving the quality of healthcare services around the world, and one of the innovative strategies that have been used to address such challenges is the positive deviance (PD) approach. The approach assumes that identifying, examining, understanding and disseminating solutions to problems that are already available within the community and organisations including the healthcare system can help in bringing improvements at scale. However, to the best of the researcher's knowledge, there is no scoping review, that is, conducted to map and synthesise the available evidence on the use of the PD approach for healthcare system service improvements. Hence, this scoping review aims to map and synthesise

SUBMITTER: Kassie AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10728976 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature