What Does a Systems Approach to Quality Improvement Look Like in Practice?

Making a Sustainable Difference to People, Processes and Systems: Whole-Systems Approaches to Process Improvement in Health Systems

The eighteen papers in this Special Issue, 'Whole-Systems Approaches to Process Improvement in Health Systems', address an enduring challenge in healthcare: to improve efficiency with existing or reduced resources, while maintaining safe and effective care [...].

Short‐ and long‐term strategies for navigating research‐ambivalent organizational cultures besetting embedded researchers

Many health systems may host embedded researchers (ERs) and provide fiscal resources to encourage health service research. However, ERs may remain challenged to initiate research in these settings. This discussion examines how health system culture may impede research initiation, thereby exposing a paradox for embedded researchers immersed in research-ambivalent health systems. The discussion ultimately describes potential short-term and long-term strategies embedded researchers may employ to initiate scholarly inquiry in research-ambivalent health systems.