Each team member brings a different point of view to inform process engineering, champion implementation and monitor solutions.
However, it is clear that to elicit change in practice it will be key to position an accountable professional or onsite leader to champion implementation of better care standards.
The Office of Uganda's First Lady, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has since 2012 championed implementation of the country's eMTCT plan through country-wide regional advocacy and community dialogue, sensitization and mobilization eMTCT campaigns aiming at realising an HIV-free generation.
VAMCs with higher levels of provider adherence to diabetes guidelines had distinguishing organizational characteristics, including more frequent feedback on diabetes quality of care, designation of a guideline champion, timely implementation of quality-of-care changes, and greater acceptance of guideline applicability.
This complements other high-level efforts on the continent led by the African Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to champion the implementation of diverse policies and interventions to address malnutrition in all its forms though agriculture, the food system and other areas.
Additionally, finding the appropriate person or group within a country to champion the implementation of a new surveillance system can be fraught with financial, political, territorial challenges.
In innovation theory terms, the core teams were intended to be the programme champions, facilitating implementation and strengthening linkages between the resource team and the user organisation [ 15].
Although these similarities exist for general QI initiatives, the survey didn't solicit the opinions of laboratory personnel to directly assess the use of clinical champions in implementation of automated eGFR reporting.
A highly valued contribution from participating users is the ability to advocate a vision for the system and champion its organizational implementation.
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and nurse practitioner (NP) as change champions during the implementation of an evidence-based pain protocol in LTC.
In the course of extending this to the general problem of subgraph isomorphism (a key primitive in graph databases), we were named GraphChallenge 2017 champions for our implementation of the triangle-counting and k-truss problems.
