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IHI uses the Model for Enhancement as the framework to direct enhancement work. The Design for Enhancement, * established by Associates in Process Enhancement, is a basic, yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement.  This Website  is not suggested to replace change designs that companies may currently be using, but rather to accelerate enhancement.


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Reema Harrison,1 Sarah Fischer,2,3 Ramesh L Walpola,1 Ashfaq Chauhan,1 Temitope Babalola,1 Stephen Mears,4 Huong Le-Dao1 1School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 2Clinical Quality Commission, New South Wales Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia; 3School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; 4Hunter New England Medical Library, New Lambton, NSW, Australia, Correspondence: Reema Harrison, School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Room 229, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, Tel +61 2 9385 3324Email  [e-mail protected] The increasing prioritisation of healthcare quality throughout the 6 domains of effectiveness, safety, patient-centredness, effectiveness, timeliness and ease of access has actually triggered accelerated change both in the uptake of efforts and the realisation of their outcomes to meet external targets.


Our review sought to develop the methods applied, and the nature and efficiency of their application in the context of health care. An organized evaluation and story synthesis was undertaken. Two customers separately screened the titles and abstracts followed by the full-text articles that were possibly appropriate versus the addition criteria.


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Thirty-eight research studies were included that reported making use of 12 change management methodologies in healthcare contexts across 10 countries. The most commonly applied methodologies were Kotter's Model (19 research studies) and Lewin's Design (11 studies). Modification management methods were applied in projects at regional ward or unit level (14 ), institutional level (12) and system or multi-system (6) levels.


Change management approaches were frequently used as guiding principle to underpin a modification in complex health care contexts. The absence of prescription application of the change management methodologies was recognized. Change management methods were valued for offering assisting concepts for modification that are well suited to allow approaches to be applied in the context of complex and unique health care contexts, and to be used in synergy with application and enhancement methodologies.