Defining sustainability in practice: views from implementing real-world innovations in health care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the key conceptual challenges in advancing our understanding of how to more effectively sustain innovations in health care is the lack of clarity and agreement on what sustainability actually means. Several reviews have helped synthesize and clarify how researchers conceptualize and operationalize sustainability. In this study, we sought to identify how individuals who implement and/or sustain evidence-informed innovations in health care define sustainability.

Methods

We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with implementation leaders and relevant staff involved in the implementation of evidence-based innovations relevant to cancer survivorship care (n = 27). An inductive approach, using constant comparative analysis, was used for analysis of inte

SUBMITTER: Urquhart R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001290 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature