Recommended Reading: Implementing and Sustaining Innovations in Healthcare Settings
Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Bate P, et al. How to spread good ideas: a systematic review of the literature on diffusion, dissemination and sustainability of innovations in health service delivery and organization. London: NCCSDO; 2004.
Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Macfarlane F, Bate P, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: systematic review and recommendations. Milbank Q 2004, 82(4): 581-629. doi: 10.1111/j.0887-378X.2004.00325.x.
Greenhalgh T, Wherton J, Papoutsi C, Lynch J, Hughes G, A'Court C, Hinder S, Fahy N, Procter R, Shaw S. Beyond adoption: a new framework for theorizing and evaluating nonadoption, abandonment, and challenges to the scale-up, spread, and sustainability of health and care technologies. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2017, 19(11): e367.
Guzman G, Fitzgerald JA, Fulop L, Hayes K, Poropat A, Avery M, Campbell S, Fisher R, Gapp R, Herington C, McPhail R, Vecchio N. How best practices are copied, transferred, or translated between health care facilities: a conceptual framework. Health Care Management Review 2015, 40(3): 193–202.
Horton TJ, Illingworth JH, Warburton WHP. Overcoming challenges in codifying and replicating complex health care interventions. Health Affairs (Millwood) 2018, 37(2): 191–197.
Massoud MR, Nielsen GA, Nolan K, Schall MW, Sevin C. A framework for spread: from local improvements to system-wide change. IHI Innovation Series white paper. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2006. Available from: https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/IHIWhitePapers/AFrameworkforSpreadWhitePaper.aspx.
Moon SEJ, Hogden A, Eljiz K. Sustaining improvement of hospital-wide initiative for patient safety and quality: a systematic scoping review. BMJ Open Qual 2022 Dec;11(4):e002057. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002057. PMID: 36549751; PMCID: PMC9791458.
Nolan KM, Schall MA. A framework for spread. In Nolan KM, Schall MW, editors: Spreading improvement across your health care organization. Oak Brook, IL: Joint Commission Resources, 2007,1–24.
Øvretveit J. Implementing, sustaining, and spreading quality improvement. In The Joint Commission: From front office to front line: essential issues for health care leaders, 2nd ed. Oak Brook, IL: Joint Commission Resources, 2012, 159–176.
Scarbrough H, Kyratsis Y. From spreading to embedding innovation in health care: Implications for theory and practice. Health Care Manage Rev 2022 Jul-Sep 01, 47(3): 236-244. doi: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000323. Epub 2021 Jul 26.
Scoville R, Little K, Rakover J, Luther K, Mate K. Sustaining improvement. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2016. Available from: https://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/IHIWhitePapers/SustainingImprovementWhitePaper.aspx.
Silver SA, McQuillan R, Harel Z, Weizman AV, Thomas A, Nesrallah G, Bell CM, Chan CT, Chertow GM. How to sustain change and support continuous quality improvement. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2016 May 6;11(5):916-924. doi: 10.2215/CJN.11501015. Epub 2016 Mar 25. PMID: 27016498; PMCID: PMC4858491.
