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- Prioritize evaluation and the resources needed to conduct evaluations.
- Strive to maintain timelines for conducting evaluations and analyzing results as timely feedback can help to support the practice change.
- Utilize, where possible, existing data systems such as clinical and administrative databases. This can reduce the costs and human resources needed to collect data.
- Consider conducting multiple evaluations for long-term change initiatives (each separated with a specified time apart).
- Select the most appropriate indicators that you will use when conducting your evaluations.
- When evaluating practice changes, consider all three indicator types from the Donabedian framework.
- Commit to collecting and analyzing data from the perspectives of all involved stakeholders including persons/patients, health-care providers, and health system to determine if the knowledge use has been successful and the desired outcomes have been reached.
- Remember to include planning for evaluation as part of your implementation strategy. This will help ensure that there are adequate resources allocated.
