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Improvement science

In: Handbook on Implementation Science

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  • Per Nilsen
  • Johan Thor
  • Miriam Bender
  • Jennifer Leeman
  • Boel Andersson Gäre
  • Nick Sevdalis

Abstract

Implementation science and improvement science share similar goals of improving health care services for better patient and population outcomes. Despite their shared ambition, work within implementation science and improvement science seems to progress largely separately, with limited knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners in the two fields. Improvement science has grown out of the wider quality improvement (QI) movement, yet whereas the primary aim of QI is to enhance local performance, improvement science is aimed at producing generalizable knowledge within a scientific framework. This chapter provides a brief history of improvement science and applies a critical literature review approach to comparing this field with implementation science, focusing on six aspects: influences; ontology, epistemology and methodology; identified problem; potential solutions; analytical tools; and knowledge production and use. The chapter also highlights aspects of improvement science that potentially could inform implementation science and vice versa.

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  • Per Nilsen & Johan Thor & Miriam Bender & Jennifer Leeman & Boel Andersson Gäre & Nick Sevdalis, 2020. "Improvement science," Chapters, in: Per Nilsen & Sarah A. Birken (ed.), Handbook on Implementation Science, chapter 16, pages 389-408, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:18688_16
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