Navigating the sustainability landscape: a systematic review of sustainability approaches in healthcare.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Improvement initiatives offer a valuable mechanism for delivering and testing innovations in healthcare settings. Many of these initiatives deliver meaningful and necessary changes to patient care and outcomes. However, many improvement initiatives fail to sustain to a point where their full benefits can be realised. This has led many researchers and healthcare practitioners to develop frameworks, models and tools to support and monitor sustainability. This work aimed to identify what approaches are available to assess and influence sustainability in healthcare and to describe the different perspectives, applications and constructs within these approaches to guide their future use. METHODS:A systematic review was carried out following PRISMA guidelines to identify publications t

SUBMITTER: Lennox L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5810192 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature