Worldwide, there are∼ 18 million deaths each year from cardiovascular disease and at least
2–3 times as many experience non-fatal cardiovascular events. Numerous evidence-based …

Background Treatment burden can be defined as the self-care practices that patients with
chronic illness must perform to respond to the requirements of their healthcare providers, as …

Understanding and evaluating the implementation of complex interventions in practice is an
important problem for healthcare managers and policy makers, and for patients and others …

An innovation is almost never a thing-in-itself. To be sure, there is often what looks like a
thing–a newly invented or modified way of thinking or acting, or an artifact, or a system–that …

Background Understanding implementation processes is key to ensuring that complex
interventions in healthcare are taken up in practice and thus maximize intended benefits for …

Background Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are often proposed as
'technological fixes' for problems facing healthcare. They promise to deliver services more …

This chapter presents a number of current, popular theories from different disciplines in four
categories: theories that focus on individual factors, theories about social influence, theories …

The effective implementation of innovations, new procedures, clinical guidelines, and best
practices requires a systematic approach with good preparation and planning. This chapter …

Background Primary care doctors in NHSScotland have been using electronic medical
records within their practices routinely for many years. The Scottish Health Executive …

Objective To combine insights from service users with longterm conditions (LTC s) to assist
the development of a community referral intervention designed to promote engagement and …