Peering inside the clock: Using success case method to determine how and why practice-based educational interventions succeed

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Olson, Curtis A ^a   Shershneva, Marianna B ^b   Brownstein, Michelle Horowitz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies; Clinical practice guidelines; Implementation science; Success case method; Team learning and change; Tobacco cessation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SMOKING CESSATION; STANDARD; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION;

BENCHMARKING; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEER GROUP; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84155178179     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.20148     Document Type: Article

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