Background Tailored intervention strategies are frequently recommended among approaches
to the implementation of improvement in health professional performance. Attempts to …

BACKGROUND: It is crucial that research findings are implemented in general practice if
high-quality care is to be achieved. Multifaceted interventions are usually assumed to be more …

A consistent finding in articles on quality improvement in health care is that change is difficult
to achieve. According to the research literature, the majority of interventions are targeted at …

Background Determinants of practice are factors that might prevent or enable improvements.
Several checklists, frameworks, taxonomies, and classifications of determinants of …

Background Despite increasing interest in research on how to translate knowledge into
practice and improve healthcare, the accumulation of scientific knowledge in this field is slow. …

Background Changing the organization of patient care should contribute to improved patient
outcomes as functioning of clinical teams and organizational structures are important …

Background Referrals of patients from primary care to medical specialist care are an important
activity in any health care system. German data show that the number of referrals by GPs …

To bridge the gap between scientific evidence and patient care we need an in-depth
understanding of the barriers and incentives to achieving change in practice. Various theories and …

As innovations are constantly being developed within health care, it can be difficult both to
select appropriate new practices and technologies and to successfully adopt them within …

The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) is a multi‐site naturalistic cohort
study to: (1) describe the long‐term course and consequences of depressive and anxiety …