An evaluation of the adoption and diffusion of surgical innovations in an Ontario academic health sciences centre.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9780494211885
Description: Objective. To evaluate the adoption and diffusion of surgical innovations in an academic health sciences centre.Methods. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 respondents to analyze two surgical innovations: (i) outpatient craniotomy and (ii) sentinel lymph node biopsy. Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations  framework was used to analyze the innovations in terms of their characteristics and contextual factors.Results. Outpatient craniotomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy were adopted into practice by the surgeons at an academic health sciences centre in Toronto, Ontario. While sentinel lymph node biopsy diffused, outpatient craniotomy did not. Based on Rogers' framework, low relative advantage and low observability could explain the lack of adoption of outpatient craniotomy.Conclusion. Rogers' framework is a valuable tool that can be used to identify factors that influence the adoption and diffusion of surgical innovations related to the characteristics of the innovation and the contextual factors that influence them.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1446.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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