Creativity in problem solving to improve complex health outcomes: Insights from hospitals seeking to improve cardiovascular care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Improving performance often requires health care teams to employ creativity in problem solving, a key attribute of learning health systems. Despite increasing interest in the role of creativity in health care, empirical evidence documenting how this concept manifests in real-world contexts remains limited.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study to understand how creativity was fostered during problem solving in 10 hospitals that took part in a 2-year collaborative to improve cardiovascular care outcomes. We analyzed interviews with 197 hospital team members involved in the collaborative, focusing on work processes or outcomes that participants self-identified as creative or promoting creativity. We sought to identify recurrent patterns across instances of crea

SUBMITTER: Brewster AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006532 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature