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Healthcare improvement as planned system change or complex responsive processes? a longitudinal case study in general

Barbara J Booth1, Nicholas Zwar, Mark F Harris

  • 1Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. bj.booth@unsw.edu.au

BMC Family Practice
|April 27, 2013
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Healthcare improvement in general practice is complex and emergent, not a planned process. Understanding change through a complexity lens reveals how practices adapt to deliver better chronic illness care.

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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Improvement Science
  • Complexity Science in Healthcare
  • General Practice Management

Background:

  • Evidence-based practice implementation in healthcare faces challenges.
  • Primary care struggles with chronic disease burden in aging populations.
  • Translating research into practice remains elusive despite intense study.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Explore healthcare improvement dilemmas in general practice.
  • Challenge current thinking on healthcare improvement.
  • Apply complexity lens to understand organizational change.

Main Methods:

  • Embedded case study of organizational change over a decade.
  • Data collection via interviews, document review, and observation.
  • Comparison with standard implementation prescriptions and complexity science theories.

Main Results:

  • Practice continuously improved chronic illness care over ten years.
  • Improvements included process redesign, community linkages, self-management support, and nurse integration.
  • Change was emergent, non-linear, and self-organized, not based on explicit plans.

Conclusions:

  • Implementation science as planned change doesn't match general practice reality.
  • Complexity concepts, like complex responsive processes, better explain healthcare change.
  • These insights inform how stakeholders improve healthcare delivery.