Table 3.
Origins of sustainability frameworks/models/theories for acute care settings
| First author | Year | Country of origin | Name of F/M/Tl | Methodological approach used | Basis or field of study derived from | Recommended setting for use | Context level | Target audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan et al. [25] | 2005 | UK | Sustaining Organizational Change Framework (SOCF) | Focused Systematic Review |
-Organizational (orgal) change theory -Management (Mgmt.) and total Quality Improvement (QI) theory |
Recommended for different types of change and different contexts—organizational settings providing health and human care services (p. 189) | Unit or organizational level | Researchers concerned with organizational change (p. 190) |
| Racine [42] | 2006 | USA | Model for Sustaining Innovations in their effectiveness (MSI) | Focused Systematic Review |
-Diffusion of Innovation theory -Orgal and Mgmt. theory |
For use in health and human service innovations and related contexts, (p. 357, 381) | Unit or organizational level | Blueprint (p. 382) for funders, grantors, researchers and practitioners (p. 356-7) |
| Maher et al. [39] | 2010 | UK | NHS Sustainability Model (NHS SM) | Bayesian subjective research co-production approach to identify and rank factors | -Orgal and Mgmt. theory | Healthcare settings and service innovations (p. 5 of guide) | Project or initiative level | Inter-disciplinary researchers and practitioners (p. 5) |
| Slaghuis et al. [40] | 2011 | Netherlands | A Framework and a Measurement Instrument for Sustainability of Work Practice in long term care (FMIS WP) | Literature review of the concepts “routinization” and “institutionalization” | -Theory of routines | Applicable to multiple settings and service organizations in and out of healthcare including hospital care, long-term care (p. 323) | Department or organizational level | Researchers and practitioners seeking to measure if changed practices are sustained (p. 314) |
| Chambers et al. [34] | 2013 | USA | Dynamic Sustainability Framework (DSF) | Literature review of the concepts “voltage drop” and “program drift” | -Ecological theory | Recommended for a broad range of healthcare service interventions and a myriad of clinical organization and community settings (p. 125) | Project or initiative level | Researchers, policy-makers, practitioners (p. 117, 123-4) |
| Fox et al. [43] | 2015 | Australia | Sustainability of Innovation Theoretical Framework (SITF) | A synthesis of theoretical propositions from an integrative review featuring 2 frameworks: Greenhalgh et al 2004 and Chambers et al. 2013 | -Diffusion of Innovation theory | Broad range of healthcare service innovation in several contexts including nursing contexts (p. 73) | Unit or organizational level | Researchers (p. 70 ,74) |
| Fleiszer et al. [13] | 2015 and 2016 | Canada | Sustainability of Healthcare Innovations Framework (SHIF) | Concept analysis of ‘innovation sustainability” | -Theories from multiple disciplines (health, social services, public healthy, mgmt.) | Diverse frontline acute healthcare nursing settings (2016, p. 215) | Unit level | Inter-disciplinary researchers, practitioners, administrators (p. 1484–5) |
| Frykman et al. [41] | 2017 | Sweden | DCOM Framework with Realistic Evaluation (DCOMF) | Integrative review combining an organizational framework grounded in psychological theory with Realistic Evaluation | -Psychological theory of applied behavior analysis | Complex changing healthcare context such as emergency depts (p. 76) | Organizational level | Researchers and inter-professional practitioners (p. 64, 76) |