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11 - Driving Innovation in Health Care

External Evidence, Decision-Making, and Leadership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2022

Mark Pauly
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Flaura Winston
Affiliation:
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mary Naylor
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Kevin Volpp
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Lawton Robert Burns
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
Ralph Muller
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Health System
David Asch
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Rachel Werner
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Bimal Desai
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Krisda Chaiyachati
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Benjamin Chartock
Affiliation:
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Summary

The bulk of medical care system management in the United States does not ground decisions in use of available, high quality evidence. The previous chapters in this book demonstrate both that there sometimes is a rich scientific foundation in health care organization, delivery, and financing that could, if applied, lead to better outcomes, and that sometimes there is little or no evidence on effectiveness of interventions. However, we also observed that the bulk of health care management in the United States does not ground decisions in evidence, using it if available and taking uncertainty into account if not – instead “magical thinking” is often used to make choices.1 Ironically, management holds evidence in high esteem for decision-making by clinicians. In this chapter, we explore why management holds itself to a lower standard regarding its organizational, staffing, and planning choices, seeing experience, intuition, and opinions as good-enough evidence for decisions. We explore what needs to happen for this to change.

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Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Healthcare Management Innovation
, pp. 369 - 397
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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