Managing Clinical Knowledge for Health Care Improvement

By E. Balas, S. Boren. Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2000

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Quality health care rests fundamentally on the achievements of biomedical research. All health outcomes are improved by sound science: health status can be turned around by transplantation when someone's life is in jeopardy due to a diseased organ; social functioning can be improved by shock wave lithotripsy that -leads to faster recovery; and satisfaction can beenhanced when children with moderate or severe asthma receive appropriate anti-inflammatory treatment. To improve the quality of health care that patients actually receive, both biomedical research production and especially its introduction into clinical practice need to be examined.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Active Implementation Frameworks for Program Success: How to Use Implementation Science to Improve Outcomes for Children. (2012, neutral): “Both of these approaches have been found to be insufficient for promoting the full and effective use of innovations (Balas & Boren, 2000; Clancy, 2006).”
Practice-based research--"Blue Highways" on the NIH roadmap. (2007, background): “It takes an estimated average of 17 years for only 14% of new scientific discoveries to enter day-to-day clinical practice.(4) McGlynn et al(5) reported that Americans only receive 50% of the recommended preventive, acute, and long-term health care.”
An introduction to implementation science for the non-specialist (2015, background): “Even this dismal estimate presents an unrealistically rosy projection, as only about half of EBPs ever reach widespread clinical usage [1].”
Grand challenges in clinical decision support (2008, background): “Another benefit of such an architecture is the potential to greatly speed the transition from research finding to widespread practice, a process that is estimated to take as much as 17 years [32].”
Implementation science: What is it and why should i care? (2020, neutral): “Classic studies indicate that it takes 17–20 years to get clinical innovations into practice; moreover, fewer than 50% of clinical innovations ever make it into general usage (Mosteller, 1981; Balas and Boren, 2000; Grant et al., 2003; Morris et al., 2011) .”