Changing healthcare professionals' non-reflective processes to improve the quality of care

Sebastian Potthoff, Dominika Kwasnicka, Leah Avery, Tracy Finch, Benjamin Gardner, Nelli Hankonen, Derek Johnston, Marie Johnston, Gerjo Kok, Phillippa Lally, Gregory Maniatopoulos, Marta M. Marques, Nicola McCleary, Justin Presseau, Tim Rapley, Tom Sanders, Gill ten Hoor, Luke Vale, Bas Verplanken and Jeremy M. Grimshaw

Social Science & Medicine, 2022, vol. 298, issue C

Abstract: Translating research evidence into clinical practice to improve care involves healthcare professionals adopting new behaviours and changing or stopping their existing behaviours. However, changing healthcare professional behaviour can be difficult, particularly when it involves changing repetitive, ingrained ways of providing care. There is an increasing focus on understanding healthcare professional behaviour in terms of non-reflective processes, such as habits and routines, in addition to the more often studied deliberative processes. Theories of habit and routine provide two complementary lenses for understanding healthcare professional behaviour, although to date, each perspective has only been applied in isolation.

Keywords: Habits; Routines; Dual process models; Theories of practice; Healthcare professionals; Quality improvement; Implementation science; Behaviour change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114840

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