Simple rules for evidence translation in complex systems: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring patients benefit from the latest medical and technical advances remains a major challenge, with rational-linear and reductionist approaches to translating evidence into practice proving inefficient and ineffective. Complexity thinking, which emphasises interconnectedness and unpredictability, offers insights to inform evidence translation theories and strategies. Drawing on detailed insights into complex micro-systems, this research aimed to advance empirical and theoretical understanding of the reality of making and sustaining improvements in complex healthcare systems.

Methods

Using analytical auto-ethnography, including documentary analysis and literature review, we assimilated learning from 5 years of observation of 22 evidence translation projects (U

SUBMITTER: Reed JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6009041 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature