BACKGROUND Advance care planning (acp) is an important process in health care today. How to prospectively identify potential local barriers and facilitators to uptake of acp across a complex, multi-sector, publicly funded health care system and how to develop specific mitigating strategies have not been well characterized. METHODS We surveyed a convenience sample of clinical and administrativ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the main barriers to and facilitators of physical activity in young adults with childhood-onset physical disabilities. DESIGN Qualitative study using focus groups. PARTICIPANTS Sixteen persons (12 men and 4 women) aged 22.4 (standard deviation 3.4) years, of whom 50% were wheelchair-dependent, participated in the study. Eight were diagnosed with myelomeningocele, 4 with...

OBJECTIVES People of South Asian ethnicity are under-represented in health research studies. The objectives of this scoping review were to examine the barriers and facilitators to recruitment of South Asians to health research studies and to describe strategies for improving recruitment. DESIGN Scoping review METHODS: Using the Arksey and O'Malley framework for scoping reviews, we comprehensi...

Despite the drive towards evidence-based practice, the extent to which research evidence is being implemented in nursing practice is unclear, particularly in developing countries. This study was to assess the levels of perceived barriers to and facilitators of research utilization in practice among Chinese nurses and inter-relationships between these barriers and facilitators and their socio-de...

BACKGROUND Mental health care in Australia is fragmented and inaccessible for people experiencing severe and complex mental ill-health. Partners in Recovery is a Federal Government funded scheme that was designed to improve coordination of care and needs for this group. Support Facilitators are the core service delivery component of this scheme and have been employed to work with clients to coo...

BACKGROUND In problem-based learning curricular research has focused on the characteristics of good facilitators and how they influence student performance and satisfaction. Far less frequently addressed has been the question of how PBL facilitators influence the small group session activity of students. We investigated the impact that facilitators' encouragement of use or non-use of the Intern...

Social networks evolve over time with the addition and removal of nodes and links to survive and thrive in their environments. Previous studies have shown that the linkformation process in such networks is influenced by a set of facilitators. However, there have been few empirical evaluations to determine the important facilitators. In a research partnership with law enforcement agencies, we us...

The benefits of telemedicine systems within the U.S. military have been widely recognized. However, a number of telemedicine systems have encountered resistance and have failed to be adopted and widely used. The purpose of the present project was to use a human factors analysis to characterize the facilitators and impediments to the use of a teledermatology system. More specifically, the goal w...

AIM To explore improvement facilitators' experiences of handling their commission to implement evidence-based practice in elderly care for frail older persons. BACKGROUND Improvement facilitators were put in place across Sweden in a time-limited project by the government, with one part of the project being to evaluate the model before establishing this facilitation of evidence-based practice ...

BACKGROUND As health care practitioners, it is important to have an understanding of the common barriers to and facilitators of the rehabilitation services we provide. OBJECTIVES This article aimed to review the relevant literature regarding barriers to and facilitators of rehabilitation services for people with disabilities. METHOD Articles for the period 1990-2010 using descriptors relate...