Improving quality of care through routine, successful implementation of evidence-based practice at the bedside: an organizational case study protocol using the Pettigrew and Whipp model of strategic change.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an expected approach to improving the quality of patient care and service delivery in health care systems internationally that is yet to be realized. Given the current evidence-practice gap, numerous authors describe barriers to achieving EBP. One recurrently identified barrier is the setting or context of practice, which is likewise cited as a potential part of the solution to the gap. The purpose of this study is to identify key contextual elements and related strategic processes in organizations that find and use evidence at multiple levels, in an ongoing, integrated fashion, in contrast to those that do not.

Methods

The core theoretical framework for this multi-method explanatory case study is Pettigrew and Whipp's Content, Con

SUBMITTER: Stetler CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1803000 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature