Cultivate, assess, advocate, implement, and sustain

Prevention of Iodine Deficiency: Difficult to Implement, More Difficult to Sustain

Strategies to implement and sustain medication use for alcohol and opioid disorders

Background Medication for treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorders decreases relapse rates and increases long-term recovery. Inclusion of medications in treatment plans, however, may be a complex process for addiction treatment centers. Sustaining use of medications requires additional wellorganized and concerted efforts. Qualitative interviews explore implementation and sustainability str...

An interdepartmental team approach to develop, implement, and sustain an oncology nursing orientation program.

Creating an environment to implement and sustain evidence based practice: a developmental process.

BACKGROUND Elements of evidence based practice (EBP) are well described in the literature and achievement of EBP is frequently being cited as an organisational goal. Despite this, the practical processes and resources for achieving EBP are often not readily apparent, available or successful. PURPOSE To describe a multi-dimensional EBP program designed to incorporate evidence into practice to ...

Deploying the chronic care model to implement and sustain diabetes self-management training programs.

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to evaluate the utility of using the 6 elements of the chronic care model (CCM; health system, community, decision support, self-management support, clinical information systems, and delivery system design) to implement and financially sustain an effective diabetes self-management training (DSMT) program. METHODS The University of Pittsburgh Medical Cen...