Speeding the translation of research into evidence-based practice and conducting projects that impact healthcare quality, patient outcomes and costs: The 'so what' outcome factors

摘要

Although healthcare systems could reduce their spending by 30% if patients receive evidence-based health care, the cost of healthcare delivery continues to increase in many countries across the globe (PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, 2009). Poor-quality health care and wasteful healthcare spending are continued challenges. Further, medical errors that result in death, many of which could have been prevented with evidence-based practice (EBP), continue to be a global problem in healthcare systems. Fragmentation of care in healthcare systems is another huge problem (Carter, 2010). For example, in the United States, it is now not unusual for a typical Medicare patient to see two primary care providers and five specialists working in four medical practices (Thorpe, Ogden, & Galactionova, 2010). Our healthcare systems cannot sustain these rising healthcare costs, wasteful spending, and lack of EBPs without a collapse of the entire system.