Synopsis

Significant time, effort and resources are spent developing rigorous evidence-based health care guidelines. Unfortunately, not enough of these endeavours result in patient benefit. Implementation science, the study of methods to promote the systematic, widespread uptake of research findings and evidence-based practices into routine care to improve health outcomes, offers an approach to optimise the uptake of evidence-based practice. This presentation will focus on methods of implementation science and share real life examples of this in practice.

Speakers

Associate Prof Stephanie Best leads the Melbourne Implementation Science Group at the School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne. She is deputy lead for the University of Melbourne’s Transforming Health Care area. Stephanie collaborates with a wide range of health and social care practitioners and others. A physiotherapist by background, before her academic life she also had an extensive international, clinical and health care management and leadership career, and is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in the United Kingdom.