title: International "best practices" in health care: the roles of context and innovation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Explores recent approaches to international best practices and how they relate to context and innovation in health services.
  
  
  METHODS
  Critical review of existing research on best practices and how they created, diffused, and translate in the international setting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Best practices are widely used and discussed, but processes by which they are developed and diffused across international settings are not well understood.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further research is needed on innovation and dissemination of best practices internationally.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This commentary points out directions for future research on innovation and diffusion of best practices, particularly in the international setting.
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goes
authors.forename: Grant T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Savage
authors.forename: Leonard H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care