Strengthening population health intervention

"Much of the research and theorising in the knowledge translation (KT) field has focused on clinical settings, providing little guidance to those working in community settings. In this study, we build on previous research in community-based KT by detailing the theory driven and empirically-informed CollaboraKTion framework."

Strengthening population health intervention: developing the CollaboraKTion Framework for community-based knowledge translation
EK Jenkins, A Kothari, V Bungay, JL Johnson, JL Oliffe
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2016, 14:65

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How do junior medical officers use online information resources?

"Junior medical officers strongly rely upon online clinical information in their everyday practice. Importantly, provision of these resources assists JMOs in their education and clinical performance."

How do junior medical officers use online information resources? A survey
HT Chong, MJ Weightman, P Sirichai, A Jones
BMC Medical Education, 2016, 16:120

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Models of care for high-need, high-cost patients

"This brief analyzes experts’ reviews of evidence about care models designed to improve outcomes and reduce costs for patients with complex needs. It finds that successful models have several common attributes: targeting patients likely to benefit from the intervention; comprehensively assessing patients’ risks and needs; relying on evidence-based care planning and patient monitoring; promoting patient and family engagement in self-care; coordinating care and communication among patients and providers; facilitating transitions from the hospital and referrals to community resources; and providing appropriate care in accordance with patients’ preferences."

Models of care for high-need, high-cost patients: An evidence synthesis
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2015

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Financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable mental health services

This guide has been written by a group of experts in mental health and sustainability, in consultation with service users and patients, and strengthened by input from a local government and public health perspective. The content is primarily evidence-based but ideas deemed to be best practice by expert consensus have also been included. By the end of this guide, readers should:

• understand the concept of sustainability in mental health care, and how using
• this commissioning framework can create sustainable services
• be aware of the legislation relating to sustainability that the NHS is required
• to meet
• understand what sustainable commissioning looks like in practice
• understand how and why improving the sustainability of mental health interventions will contribute to achieving the aims of both the mental health, public health, NHS, and social care strategies, as well as improving quality and productivity
• be able to commission sustainable mental health services and interventions.

Guidance for commissioners of financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable mental health services
Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
October 2015

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On targets: How targets can be most effective in the English NHS

"This report does not set out to determine whether targets, as a concept, are good or bad, but focuses on how targets can be most effective for improving quality of care. It builds on the evidence base regarding the impact of targets to identify good practice in designing new or improved targets, and considers how policymakers can apply these lessons to the challenges facing the NHS."

On targets: How targets can be most effective in the English NHS
N Berry, T Gardner, I Anderson
The Health Foundation
November 2015

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The future of primary care: Creating teams for tomorrow

"Building new models of care needs to be done equitably. Some of the most deprived areas of the country have the greatest recruitment problems, the biggest resource challenges and the greatest health need. First-class primary healthcare must be available in all parts of the NHS."

The future of primary care: Creating teams for tomorrow
Primary Care Workforce Commission
July 2015

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Using a systematic review in clinical decision making

"Evidence suggests that systematic reviews are used infrequently by physicians in clinical decision-making. One proposed solution is to create filtered resources so that information is validated and refined in order to be read quickly. Two shortened systematic review formats were developed to enhance their use in clinical decision-making."

Using a systematic review in clinical decision making: a pilot parallel, randomized controlled trial
L Perrier, N Persaud, KE Thorpe, SE Straus
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:118

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A priority-setting method for evidence-based service development

"The method recruited and retained people with diverse experience and views within a health community and took account of a full range of evidence. It enabled a diverse group of stakeholders to travel together in a direction that converged with the messages coming out of the research and successfully yielded priorities for service improvement that met competing requirements."

Squaring the circle: a priority-setting method for evidence-based service development, reconciling research with multiple stakeholder views
R Hutten, GD Parry, T Ricketts, J Cooke
BMC Health Services Research, 2015, 15:320

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Narrative review of models and success factors for scaling up public health interventions

"Conceptual frameworks can assist both policy makers and researchers to determine the type of research that is most useful at different stages of scaling up processes."

Narrative review of models and success factors for scaling up public health interventions
AJ Milat, A Bauman, S Redman
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:113

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A review of the effectiveness of capacity building strategies

This standardization will assist with synthesizing findings across studies and guide capacity-building practice and research.

What strategies are used to build practitioners’ capacity to implement community-based interventions and are they effective?: a systematic review
J Leeman, et al.
Implementation Science, 2015, 10:80

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‘Cosmetic boob jobs’ or evidence-based breast surgery

"The purpose of this study was to explore the work practices of ‘individual funding request’ (IFR) panels, as they considered ‘one-off’ funding requests for breast surgery; examine how the notion of ‘value’ is dialogically constructed, and how decisions about who is deserving of NHS funding and who is not are accomplished in practice."

‘Cosmetic boob jobs’ or evidence-based breast surgery: an interpretive policy analysis of the rationing of ‘low value’ treatments in the English National Health Service
J Russell, D Swinglehurst, T Greenhalgh
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:413

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Applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care

"While quality registries are assumed to support adherence to evidence-based guidelines around the world, this study proposes that a NQR can facilitate improvement of care but neither the registry itself nor the reporting of data initiates quality improvement."

Facilitators and barriers to applying a national quality registry for quality improvement in stroke care
AC Eldh, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:354

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Social and organizational factors affecting implementation of evidence-informed practice

"Results also implied that the perception of accessibility and trust were significant predictors of expertise recognition."

Social and organizational factors affecting implementation of evidence-informed practice in a public health department in Ontario: a network modelling approach
R Yousefi-Nooraie, M Dobbins, A Marin
Implementation Science, 9:29

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The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation

"Effective decision-making requires good advice, and that depends on informed use of evidence both in developing policy and in evaluating its effect once implemented."

The role of evidence in policy formation and implementation
Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee
September 2013

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Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses

"Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials that include patient-reported outcomes (PROs) often provide crucial information for patients and clinicians facing challenging health care decisions. "

Patient-reported outcomes in meta-analyses - Part 1: assessing risk of bias and combining outcomes
BC Johnston, DL Patrick, JW Busse, HJ Schunemann, A Agarwal, GH Guyatt
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2013, 11:109

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Getting research into practice in occupational health

"It appears that current practice in occupational health in the healthcare sector is not solidly grounded in evidence-based decision-making and strategies should be developed to improve this."

Bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health: a qualitative study among decision-makers in the healthcare sector
JM van Dongen, E Tompa, L Clune, A Sarnocinska-Hart, PM Bongers, MW van Tulder, AJ van der Beek, MF van Wier
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:57

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Learning modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice

The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health has produced a set of online modules to support the implementation of evidence-informed practice. They work most effectively in Internet Explorer, and cover the following topics:

• Opening module
• Leading organizational change
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Needs assessment
• Implementing evidence-informed practices
• Monitoring and evaluating outcomes
• Closing module

Access the modules here.

Toward performance and quality

Longwoods have published a special issue of Healthcare Quarterly, called "Toward performance and quality." Articles include:

1. The journey toward high performance and excellent quality
2. Clinicians as designers and leaders of quality improvement
3. Bringing evidence to healthcare decision making
4. Evidence and quality, practicalities and judgements: some experience from NICE

Access the full issue here.

Practice facilitation within primary care settings

"Practice facilitation has a moderately robust effect on evidence based guideline adoption within primary care."

Systematic review and meta-analysis of practice facilitation within primary care settings
NB Baskerville, C Liddy, W Hogg
Annals of Family Medicine, 2012, 10(1):63-74

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