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March 6, 2019Implementation ScienceOpen Access

Understanding contexts: how explanatory theories can help

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Abstract

Healthcare systems can usefully be represented in explanatory theories. Improvement interventions in healthcare quality and safety are most likely to bring about intended and sustained changes when improvers use explanatory theories to align interventions with the host systems into which they are being introduced.

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Frank Davidoff (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d811b33eff0c9dfaae3303 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-019-0872-8

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