Implementing best practices like these, including increased emphasis on the implementation and use of electronic health record systems and healthcare quality measures, is increasingly important given the changing health care environment.
However, implementing best practices is difficult, and the traditional methods of best-practice implementation, such as education, reminders, and audit and feedback, are, at best, modestly effective [ 52].
For example, drawing upon a study designed to determine what high quality PAR implementation in middle schools entails, Ozer et al. (this issue) propose core components and key conditions for effective implementation and sustainability of school-based PAR, as well as challenges to implementing best practices.
Implementing best practices in disaster management that are evidence-based is essential in order to improve disaster resilience and response.
Some of these involve systematic evaluations of all touchpoints in the library and recommendations for implementing best practices.
Of course, well-intended managers think they are implementing best practices but, in fact, unknowingly, sometimes the practice does more harm than good.
Implementing best practice in healthcare is complex.
Three themes emerged: current practices regarding the best practice guidelines, reasons for not implementing best practice guidelines and recommendations to implement best practice guidelines.
Implementing best practice guidelines for these nosocomial infections has variable success in the literature.
