Evaluating information service innovations in the health service: ‘If I was planning on going there I wouldn’t start from here’

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A number of barriers exist to the conduct of successful health services information research. These include the conflict between the pragmatic concerns of running a project alongside existing information services and the need for rigorous and transferable experimental studies, the tension between quantitative and qualitative research paradigms and the proven lack of success at integrating successful projects into mainstream service delivery. The authors describe a post hoc evaluation conducted for Northern and Yorkshire R&D in the UK of six pilot sites supporting evidence-based health care (EBHC). This provided valuable insights into the requirements for information services evaluation. Drawing upon a model from nursing research the authors describe how a blend of techniques from action research, reflective practice and quality assurance could provide the individual, group and organizational perspectives required for successful evaluation research.

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