Achieving change in primary care—causes of the evidence to practice gap

"This comprehensive review of reviews summarises current knowledge on the barriers and facilitators to implementation of diverse complex interventions in primary care."

Achieving change in primary care—causes of the evidence to practice gap: systematic reviews of reviews
R Lau, et al.
Implementation Science, 016, 11:40

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Perceived barriers to reporting adverse drug events in hospitals

"We believe that theoretical domains framework (TDF) is a comprehensive approach that enables us to better understand and classify barriers to behavior change in reporting ADEs. Classification of barriers based on different psychological domains could be effective in mapping suitable interventions to detected barriers."

Perceived barriers to reporting adverse drug events in hospitals: a qualitative study using theoretical domains framework approach
F Mirbaha, G Shalviri, B Yazdizadeh, K Gholami, R Majdzadeh
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:110

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Access to healthcare for people facing multiple health vulnerabilities

"European stakeholders increasingly recognise the impacts that the economic crisis and austerity measures have had on the accessibility of national healthcare services."

Access to healthcare for people facing multiple health vulnerabilities in 26 cities across 11 countries: Report on the social and medical data gathered in 2014 in nine European countries, Turkey and Canada
Medecins Du Monde
May 2015

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Primary health care interventions for Indigenous people with chronic diseases

"Future interventions should consider the findings of this review as it provides an evidence base that contributes to the successful design, implementation and sustainability of chronic disease interventions in primary health care settings intended for Indigenous people."

Enablers and barriers to the implementation of primary health care interventions for Indigenous people with chronic diseases: a systematic review
O Gibson, et al.
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:71

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Barriers to improvement in the NHS

"Every day, teams within the NHS strive to make things better, but individual, organisational and system-wide barriers get in the way. This evidence scan compiles published research about the key barriers to improvement in the NHS."

What's getting in the way? Barriers to improvement in the NHS: Evidence scan no. 24
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
February 2015

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Leadership vacancies in the NHS

"Gaps in leadership result in part from the size and complexity of the NHS in England and the absence of a systematic approach at all levels to talent management, succession planning and leadership development."

Leadership vacancies in the NHS: What can be done about them?
A Janjua
The King's Fund
December 2014

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Barriers and facilitators to evidence-use in program management

"This paper reviews the literature on barriers and facilitators to evidence-informed decision-making experienced by program management decision-makers within health care organizations."

Barriers and facilitators to evidence-use in program management: a systematic review of the literature
S Humphries, T Stafinski, Z Mumtaz, D Menon
BMC Health services Research, 2014, 14:171

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The challenge of change in acute mental health services

"VOCALISE can be used to explore staff perceptions of implementation climate and to assess how staff attitudes shape the successful outcomes of planned changes."

The challenge of change in acute mental health services: measuring staff perceptions of barriers to change and their relationship to job status and satisfaction using a new measure (VOCALISE)
C Laker, F Callard, C Flach, P Williams, J Sayer, T Wykes
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:23

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Factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice

"Based on a systematic review and a consensus process we developed a checklist that aims to be comprehensive and to build on the strengths of each of the 12 included checklists. The checklist is accompanied with five worksheets to facilitate its use in implementation research and quality improvement projects."

A checklist for identifying determinants of practice: A systematic review and synthesis of frameworks and taxonomies of factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice
SA Flottorp, AD Oxman, J Krause, NR Musila, M Wensing, M Godycki-Cwirko, R Baker, MP Eccles
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:35

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The barriers to choice review

"In all the public services the review looked at, it was clear that people without access to computers or cars are at a double disadvantage when it comes to exercising choice, and also that making choice more widely available in practice means providing, not just access to information, but access to personal face-to-face interpretation."

The barriers to choice review: how are people using choice in public services?
D Boyle
NHS Alliance
January 2013

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Barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations

"The purpose of the present study was to explore how healthcare innovators of process-based initiatives perceived and made sense of factors that either facilitated or obstructed the innovation implementation and diffusion."

Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study
J Barnett, K Vasileiou, F Djemil, L Brooks, T Young
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:342

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