How does facilitation in healthcare work? Using mechanism mapping to illuminate the black box of a meta-implementation strategy.

Amy M KilbourneElvin GengIngrid Eshun-WilsonShannon SweeneyDonna ShelleyDeborah J CohenJoAnn E KirchnerMaria E FernandezMichael L Parchman

Published in: Implementation science communications (2023)

Mapping methodology provides a novel perspective of mechanisms of healthcare facilitation, notably how sensemaking, trust, and normalization contribute to quality improvement. This method may also enable more efficient and impactful hypothesis-testing and application of complex implementation strategies, with high relevance for lower-resourced settings, to inform effective innovation uptake.

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