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Understanding context is key for healthcare quality and safety improvements. Using explanatory theories to align interventions with healthcare systems ensures effective and sustained changes.

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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Improvement Science
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences

Background:

  • Context is crucial for implementing effective and sustained improvement interventions in healthcare quality and safety.
  • Existing concepts of context require critical analysis and synthesis to develop robust explanatory theories of human environments, including healthcare systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To rethink the nature and roles of context in healthcare improvement.
  • To develop a framework for constructing explanatory theories of human environments, specifically for healthcare systems.

Main Methods:

  • Critical analysis of published literature in improvement science, social sciences, organization, and management sciences.
  • Iterative search strategy building upon reference lists of relevant documents.
  • Synthesis of existing context concepts into a novel framework.

Main Results:

  • Explanatory theories, multi-variable constructs, help make sense of complex situations by transferring meaning, separating components, unifying them into a model, and adapting it for use.
  • Contexts of human activities can be represented as explanatory theories of environments, valuable when translatable into behavioral changes.
  • Mature theories of context include static models, universal-plus-variable models, activity theory, and the FITT framework.

Conclusions:

  • Healthcare systems can be effectively represented using explanatory theories.
  • Improvement interventions in healthcare quality and safety yield more intended and sustained changes when improvers utilize explanatory theories to align interventions with host systems.