Role of Leadership in Narrowing the Gap between Science and Practice: Improving Treatment Outcomes at the Systems Level
| Autor: | Richard M. Bloch, Sy Atezaz Saeed, Stuart Silver |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Mental Health Services
Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Quality management Evidence-based practice business.industry Public health MEDLINE Information technology Public relations Quality Improvement Skills management Scientific evidence Translational Research Biomedical Leadership Psychiatry and Mental health Evidence-Based Practice Outcome Assessment Health Care Practice Guidelines as Topic Health care Humans Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Psychiatric Quarterly. 86:311-323 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6709 0033-2720 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11126-015-9372-4 |
| Popis: | It's been well documented that health care does not reliably transfer what we know from science into clinical practice. As a result, Americans do not always receive the care suggested by the scientific evidence. Despite the best intentions of a dedicated and skilled healthcare workforce, this can often lead to poor clinical outcomes. As research and technology rapidly advance, this gap between science and practice appears to be widening. There is an increasing public concern about a lack of access to appropriate treatment, pervasiveness of unsafe practices, and wasteful uses of precious health care resources leading to suboptimum treatment outcomes. Leadership has a critical role in creating and sustaining the environment that supports health services for individuals and populations that increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. Leadership has some responsibility to improve outcomes by insuring effective use of evidence-based treatment guidelines; measurement-based care; knowledge and skills management; care coordination; and information technologies. This paper addresses leadership issues in these components of a system's ability to improve treatment outcomes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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