title: Sustaining change: once evidence-based practices are transferred, what then?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
authors.forename: Tazim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Virani
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lemieux-Charles
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Whitney
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Berta
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice; D006268:Health Facilities; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000458:organization & administration*