From spreading to embedding innovation in health care: Implications for theory and practice.
Issue: In broad terms, current thinking and literature on the spread of innovations in health care presents it as the study of two unconnected processes—diffusion across adopting organizations and implementation within adopting organizations. Evidence from the health care environment and beyond, how...
| Publicado en: | Health Care Management Review Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 236 - 245 |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Jul-Sep2022
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