Team interventions in acute hospital contexts: protocol for the evaluation of an initial programme theory using realist methods.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Literature on multi-disciplinary healthcare team interventions to improve quality and safety of care in acute hospital contexts tends to focus on evaluating the success of the intervention by assessing patient outcomes. In contrast, there is little focus on the team who delivered the intervention, how the team worked to deliver the intervention or the context in which it was delivered. In practice, there is therefore a poor understanding of why some interventions work and are sustained and why others fail. There is little emphasis in the literature on how the team delivering the intervention might impact success or failure. Given that team is the vehicle through which these interventions are introduced, it is important to understand interventions from their perspective

SUBMITTER: Cunningham U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9051586 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature