All of this work, Kane says, was aimed at "identifying the practices that are associated with student achievement".
In the pursuit of sustainability, the importance of identifying the practices demanding considerable resources and studying the formation of these practices as a basis for policies has been recognised[18, 19].
Identifying the practices; Understanding the processes; Addressing tradeoffs and; Formulating supportive policies.
Observational studies with uncontrolled variation on multiple factors may be inadequate for identifying the practices that could contribute most to ongoing improvement in population care, and quality improvement teams should also consider other methods for identifying improvement opportunities.
We suggest four crucial elements necessary in the move toward synergy: 1) identifying the practices and their interconnectedness; 2) examining the processes and their interrelationships; 3) addressing the tradeoffs; and 4) supportive policies and strategies.
In our view, the move from complementarity to synergy particularly to achieve the superadditive value and subadditive cost models needs to capture four key elements: Identifying the practices; Understanding the processes; Addressing tradeoffs and; Formulating supportive policies.
