Quantifying Practice Variability to Inform the Design of Implementation Programs in Critical Care and Assess Their Impact.

ABSTRACT: Uptake of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in pulmonary and critical care medicine is frequently incomplete. To address these gaps, implementation scientists seek to understand the clinical and societal contexts in which innovations and EBPs are introduced. They also design and evaluate complex interventions to facilitate the adoption of an EBP in those contexts. We propose that well-established methods for analyzing hierarchical, observational data can complement and strengthen this process by identifying sources of practice variability. This paper reviews the dominant framework used to understand the clinical context of implementation programs, describes how measuring practice variability could help streamline this approach, and tests an assumption of the proposed combined methodology usi

SUBMITTER: Turnbull AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12499886 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature