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  • Collaborative review of pilot projects to inform policy: a methodological remedy for pilotitis?

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    Kuipers, P
    Humphreys, JS
    Wakerman, J
    Wells, R
    Jones, J
    Entwistle, P
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kuipers, Pim
    Year published
    2008
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    Background: In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. Discussion: This article describes critical aspects of the methodology of a successful collaborative, multi-method, systematic synthesis of exemplary primary health care pilot projects in rural and remote Australia, which synthesised principles from a ...
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    Background: In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. Discussion: This article describes critical aspects of the methodology of a successful collaborative, multi-method, systematic synthesis of exemplary primary health care pilot projects in rural and remote Australia, which synthesised principles from a number of pilot projects to inform policy makers and planners. Hallmarks of the method were: the nature of the source materials for the research, the subsequent research engagement with the actual pilot projects, the extent of collaboration throughout the study with end-users from policy and planning arenas, and the attention to procedural quality. Summary: The methodology, while time consuming, has resulted in applied, policy-relevant findings, and evidence of consideration by policy-makers.
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    Journal Title
    Australian and New Zealand Health Policy
    Volume
    5
    Issue
    17
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-8462-5-17
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 Kuipers et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Nursing
    Policy and administration
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/40126
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    • Journal articles

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