Sustaining change: once evidence-based practices are transferred, what then?
Healthcare has undergone many transformations over the past several decades including increased diagnostic sophistication, shorter in-hospital stays and day surgeries as well as greater home-based treatments such as intravenous therapy, dialysis and palliation. Despite their rigorous evidence-based underpinnings and the demonstrated benefits of these advances, the sustainability of new clinical practices in healthcare organizations continues to present a challenge to practitioners and researchers alike.
Virani
Tazim
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Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Lemieux-Charles
Louise
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Davis
David A
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Berta
Whitney
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D002170:Canada; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006268:Health Facilities; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000458:organization & administration*