The Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool: measuring organizational capacity to promote sustainability in healthcare.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few validated assessment tools are available to increase understanding and measure factors associated with sustainment of clinical practices, an increasingly recognized need among clinicians. We describe the development of the Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool (CSAT), designed to assess factors that contribute to sustainable practices in clinical settings.

Methods

Sixty-four participants from clinical and research fields participated in concept mapping and were recruited to brainstorm factors that lead to sustained clinical practices. Once repeated factors were removed, participants sorted items based on similarity and rated them by importance and feasibility. Using concept mapping analyses, items were grouped into meaningful domains to develop an initial to

SUBMITTER: Malone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285819 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature