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Evidence-Based health care and the implementation gap

Evidence-Based health care and the implementation gap
Evidence-Based health care and the implementation gap
Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement change based on research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures. The book draws on a large body of evidence acquired in the course of nearly fifty in-depth case studies, following attempts to introduce evidence-based practice in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study hospital and primary care settings, they are able to shed light on why some of these attempts succeeded where others faltered. By opening up the intricacies and complexities of change in the NHS, they reveal the limitations of the simplistic approaches to implementing research or introducing evidence-based health care. A unique synthesis of evidence, the book brings together data from 1,400 interviews with doctors, nurses, and managers, as well as detailed observations and documentary analysis. The authors provide an analysis, rooted in a range of theoretical perspectives, that underlines the intimate links between organizational structures and cultures and the utilization of knowledge, and draws conclusions which will be of significance for other areas of public management. Their findings have implications for the utilization of knowledge insituations where there is a professional tradition working within a politically sensitive blend of public service, managerial accountability, and technical expertise. Knowledge to Action? will be of interest to Academics, Researchers, and Advanced Students of Organizational Behaviour, Public and Health Management, and Evidence-Based Medicine; and also of particular interest to Practitioners, Clinicians, and Public Health Managers concerned with implementing change to clinical practice.
implementation, health, care
0199259011
36-45
Oxford University Press
Dopson, Sue
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Locock, Louise
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Gabbay, John
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Fitzgerald, Louise
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Dopson, Sue
Fitzgerald, Louise
Dopson, Sue
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Locock, Louise
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Gabbay, John
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Fitzgerald, Louise
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Dopson, Sue
Fitzgerald, Louise

Dopson, Sue, Locock, Louise, Gabbay, John and Fitzgerald, Louise (2005) Evidence-Based health care and the implementation gap. In, Dopson, Sue and Fitzgerald, Louise (eds.) Knowledge to Action?: Evidence-based Health Care in Context. Oxford University Press, pp. 36-45.

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Health services can and should be improved by applying research findings about best practice. Yet, in Knowledge to Action?, the authors explore why it nevertheless proves notoriously difficult to implement change based on research evidence in the face of strong professional views and complex organizational structures. The book draws on a large body of evidence acquired in the course of nearly fifty in-depth case studies, following attempts to introduce evidence-based practice in the UK NHS over more than a decade. Using qualitative methods to study hospital and primary care settings, they are able to shed light on why some of these attempts succeeded where others faltered. By opening up the intricacies and complexities of change in the NHS, they reveal the limitations of the simplistic approaches to implementing research or introducing evidence-based health care. A unique synthesis of evidence, the book brings together data from 1,400 interviews with doctors, nurses, and managers, as well as detailed observations and documentary analysis. The authors provide an analysis, rooted in a range of theoretical perspectives, that underlines the intimate links between organizational structures and cultures and the utilization of knowledge, and draws conclusions which will be of significance for other areas of public management. Their findings have implications for the utilization of knowledge insituations where there is a professional tradition working within a politically sensitive blend of public service, managerial accountability, and technical expertise. Knowledge to Action? will be of interest to Academics, Researchers, and Advanced Students of Organizational Behaviour, Public and Health Management, and Evidence-Based Medicine; and also of particular interest to Practitioners, Clinicians, and Public Health Managers concerned with implementing change to clinical practice.

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Published date: 2005
Keywords: implementation, health, care

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Local EPrints ID: 61763
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/61763
ISBN: 0199259011
PURE UUID: d8187b1d-92bc-472e-861f-7030d3b1db0f

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Date deposited: 11 Sep 2008
Last modified: 12 Sep 2024 17:04

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Author: Sue Dopson
Author: Louise Locock
Author: John Gabbay
Author: Louise Fitzgerald
Editor: Sue Dopson
Editor: Louise Fitzgerald

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