in this commentary the findings from a systematic review that concluded there is no compelling evidence to suggest that implementing complicated, multi-faceted interventions is more effective than simple, single component interventions to changing healthcare professional’s behaviour are considered through the lens of harvey and kitson’s editorial. whilst an appealing conclusion, it is one that ...

We discuss the phenomenon of system tailoring in the context of data from an observational study of anaesthesia. We found that anaesthetists tailor their monitoring equipment so that the auditory alarms are more informative. However, the occurrence of tailoring by anaesthetists in the operating theatre was infrequent, even though the flexibility to tailor exists on many of the patient monitorin...

Knowledge tailoring is a powerful tool to customize a system according to the particular view and interests of the user, in such a way that usability of the system becomes significantly improved. In this paper, the tailoring of an actor profile ontology is discussed in the context of a HomeCare integrated system that is being designed and implemented in the EU K4Care project. The paper analyzes...

The need for method tailoring is widely accepted in the field of information systems development methods. Today much attention has been devoted to viewing method tailoring either as (a) a highly rational process with the method engineer as the driver where the method users are passive information providers, or (b) as an unstructured process where the developer makes individual choices, a select...