Innovations in Health Care: A Reality Check

List of Figures and Tables Foreword: We Know Better, Why don't we Do Better?; S.M.Shortell Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.L.Casebeer, A.Harrison & A.L.Mark Acknowledgements PART 1: WHEN DOES RESEARCH MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Reforming Health Care: Levers and Catalysts for Change; J-L.Denis, L.Lamothe & A.Langley Is the NHS Leadership Qualities Framework Missing the Wood for the Trees?; R.Bolden, M.Wood & J.Gosling Research Practice or Practising Research: Innovating Methods in Healthcare - The Contribution of Cynefin; A.L.Mark & D.Snowden Increasing the Impact of Research on Practice: Dissemination and Implementation Research at the National Institute of Mental Health; D.Chambers PART 2: WHEN DOES PRACTICE LEAD THE WAY? The Limits of Restructuring: A Decade of Health Reforms in New Zealand; P.Barnett, M.Powell & J.Cumming Reconstructing Continuity of Care in a Local Health Authority in Italy: Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again; J.Landau, C.Ceda & F.Ripa di Meana Patient Safety Culture in Health Organizations: Whose Culture is it Anyway?; L.S.Ginsburg, D.Tregunno, P.G.Norton & A.L.Casebeer Organizational Learning in Primary Care in the UK: The Learning Practice and the Learning Practice Inventory; R.Rushmer, D.Kelly, M.Lough, J.Wilkinson, G. Greig & H.Davies PART 3: WHAT IS EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT? What Works and What Works Well? Levels of Evidence in Clinical Governance; D.Rea Building Capacity for Evidence-Based Management in Regional Health Authorities; J.Birdsell, W.Zerbe, P.O'Connell, R.Thornley & S.Hayward Pathways to Innovation in Health Care; S.Redfern, F.Ross, S.McLaren & S.Christian Is Evidence Based Innovation a Delusion?; R.Sheaff, S.Pickard & B.Dowling PART 4: HOW DO ORGANIZATIONS MANAGE ACROSS BOUNDARIES? Systemic Transformational Change in Tobacco Control: An Overview of the Initiative for the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS); A.Best, R.V.Tenkasi, W.K.Trochim, F.Y.Lau, B.Holmes, T.R.Huerta, G.Moor, S.Leischow & P.I.Clark Organizational Boundaries and Inter-group Relationships; P.Hyde Effective Health Care CHAIN (Contacts, Help, Advice and Information Network): Breaking Down Barriers between Professions, Organizations, Researchers and Practitioners in the UK and Canada; D.Evans, L.McAuley, N.Santesso, J.McGowan & J.Grimshaw Do Organizational Interventions in Health Care Reform Enhance Health Systems Performance?; O.Adams & G.Gedik Concluding Thoughts; B.Hinings A Summing Up; A.L.Casebeer, A.Harrison & A.L.Mark Index