Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 35 Issue 7

Guest editorial

Mitchell N. Sarkies, Joanna Moullin, Teralynn Ludwick, Suzanne Robinson

Understanding implementation science from the standpoint of health organisation and management: an interdisciplinary exploration of selected theories, models and frameworks

Mitchell Sarkies, Suzanne Robinson, Teralynn Ludwick, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Per Nilsen, Gregory Aarons, Bryan J. Weiner, Joanna Moullin

As a discipline, health organisation and management is focused on health-specific, collective behaviours and activities, whose empirical and theoretical scholarship remains…

Context counts: a qualitative study exploring the interplay between context and implementation success

Lisa Rogers, Aoife De Brún, Sarah A. Birken, Carmel Davies, Eilish McAuliffe

Implementing change in healthcare is difficult to accomplish due to the unpredictability associated with challenging the status quo. Adapting the intervention/practice/program…

Organizational perspectives on implementing complex health interventions: clinical genomics in Australia

Stephanie Best, Janet C. Long, Clara Gaff, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Natalie Taylor

Clinical genomics is a complex, innovative medical speciality requiring clinical and organizational engagement to fulfil the clinical reward promised to date. Focus thus far has…

Using an implementation science approach to build leader facilitation capability in healthcare: a novel approach for enhancing action learning set facilitation

Jodie Shoobridge, Tim Schultz, Gill Harvey, Neil Kirby

The study describes the implementation of a novel strategy, entitled the Action Learning Set Facilitation Model, to develop internal facilitation capability to lead change. The…

Quick and dirty or rapid and informative? Exploring a participatory method to facilitate implementation research and organizational change

Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz, Kin Andersson, Carina Loeb

The purpose is explore an approach to acquire, analyze and report data concerning an organizational change initiative that combines knowledge generation and knowledge use, and…

Facilitation activities for change response: a qualitative study on infection prevention and control professionals during a pandemic in Brazil

Luís Irgang, Magnus Holmén, Fábio Gama, Petra Svedberg

Facilitation activities support implementation of evidence-based interventions within healthcare organizations. Few studies have attempted to understand how facilitation…

Implementation and sustainability of upper limb constraint-induced movement therapy programs for adults with neurological conditions: an international qualitative study

Lauren J. Christie, Annie McCluskey, Meryl Lovarini

Constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) is an effective intervention for arm recovery following acquired brain injury; however, there is an evidence-practice gap between…

Transferring, translating and transforming knowledge: the role of brokering in healthcare networks

Sharon J. Williams, Zoe Radnor, James Aitken, Ann Esain, Olga Matthias

This research examines how knowledge and information are managed within two care networks. We develop a conceptual framework drawing on the notion of brokering and the 3T…