title: An organizational cybernetics framework for achieving balance in evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence.
abstract: This article applies the systems science of organizational cybernetics to the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the provision of social work services in a residential treatment center setting. It does so by systemically balancing EBP with practice-based evidence (PBE) with a focus on the organizational and information system infrastructures necessary to ensure successful implementation. This application is illustrated by discussing a residential treatment program that implemented evidence-based programming and evaluated the results; however, the systemic principles articulated can be applied to any human services organizational setting.
authors.affiliation: a School of Social Work, University of Missouri , Columbia , Missouri , USA.
authors.forename: Dale
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fitch
mesh_terms: D003491:Cybernetics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004777:Environment; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration*