Resources: Improvement Science Snapshot

De-implementation is the new buzzword in healthcare, but what does it really mean, and why is there so much interest in it? Hear from Dr. Andrea Patey who breaks down de-implementation, why it’s important, and what we currently know about it.

This snapshot, by Dr Thomas Mills, talks about logic models and how they can be enhanced, making them more realistic and meaningful.

This Snapshot is by Dr Sarah Alderson, GP and Clinical Associate Professor in Primary Care. It overviews national audit programmes and gives 10 tips on how to design and test audit and feedback to identify the most effective design.

In this snapshot, Ruth Baxter talks to us about the Positive Deviance approach and shares some considerations to make when applying it in healthcare

In this snapshot, Professor Finch describes how Normalisation Process Theory can help us understand challenges in health and social care improvement work.

In this snapshot, Dr Helen Smith walks us through what co-production is, providing some advice on how to use it in applied health research.

In this snapshot, Dr Louise Hull, Kings College London, introduces a much needed, newly developed, implementation outcomes repository to help people to select suitable outcome measures when evaluating implementation efforts.

Video reflexive ethnography is a quality improvement method gaining traction in the health services. In this month's Improvement Science snapshot, Dr Siobhan McHugh tells us what it is, drawing on her own experience of using the approach with maternity care teams.

In this Improvement Science snapshot, Professor Robbie Foy runs us through the evidence on how to make audit and feedback more effective

In this Improvement Science snapshot Professor Rebecca Lawton from our Improvement Science theme at YHARC walks us through behaviour change techniques: what they are and how to make use of them.

This snapshot is delivered by Professor Rebecca Randell and introduces realist evaluation as a method. This is a method which can be used to evaluate health care interventions, providing insight into why an intervention may work better in some settings than in others.

This improvement science snapshot outlines why it is important to identify barriers and facilitators to improving clinical practice at the start of quality improvement projects. It also touches upon how to go about this and some of the key issues to bear in mind.