Aligning implementation science with improvement practice: a call to action.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In several recent articles, authors have called for aligning the fields of implementation and improvement science. In this paper, we call for implementation science to also align with improvement practice. Multiple implementation scholars have highlighted the importance of designing implementation strategies to fit the existing culture, infrastructure, and practice of a healthcare system. Worldwide, healthcare systems are adopting improvement models as their primary approach to improving healthcare delivery and outcomes. The prevalence of improvement models raises the question of how implementation scientists might best align their efforts with healthcare systems' existing improvement infrastructure and practice.

Main body

We describe three challenges and five ben

SUBMITTER: Leeman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424169 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature