Integrating the complexity of healthcare improvement with implementation science: a longitudinal qualitative case study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementation science seeks to enable change, underpinned by theories and frameworks such as the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Yet academia and frontline healthcare improvement remain largely siloed, with limited integration of implementation science methods into frontline improvement where the drivers include pragmatic, rapid change. Using the CIFR lens, we aimed to explore how pragmatic and complex healthcare improvement and implementation science can be integrated.

Methods

Our research involved the investigation of a case study that was undertaking the implementation of an improvement intervention at a large public health service. Our research involved qualitative data collection methods of semi-structured interviews and non-partic

SUBMITTER: Melder A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858551 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature