Powering Swiss health care for the future: implementation science to bridge “the valley of death”

Sabina De Geest; Franziska Zúñiga; Thekla Brunkert; Mieke Deschodt; Leah L. Zullig; Kaspar Wyss; Jürg Utzinger

doi:10.4414/smw.2020.20323

Viewpoint

Vol. 150 No. 3738 (2020)

Powering Swiss health care for the future: implementation science to bridge “the valley of death”

Sabina De Geest⁺⁻
Franziska Zúñiga⁺⁻
Thekla Brunkert⁺⁻
Mieke Deschodt⁺⁻
Leah L. Zullig⁺⁻
Kaspar Wyss⁺⁻
Jürg Utzinger⁺⁻

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20323
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20323
Published: 14.09.2020

References

Scheidegger D. Medizinischer Fortschritt: Warum verläuft dieTranslation biologischer Erkenntnisse in neue Therapien so schleppend? SAMW Bulletin. 2019;3:1–2.
Health2030 – the Federal Council’s health policy strategy for the period 2020–2030. Available from: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/strategie-und-politik/gesundheit-2030/gesundheitspolitische-strategie-2030.html [cited 2020 May 12].
United Nations. About the sustainable development goals. Available from: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ [cited 2020 May 12].
Vincent C, Staines A. Enhancing the Quality and Safety of Swiss Healthcare. Bern: Federal Office of Public Health. 2019.
McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, Keesey J, Hicks J, DeCristofaro A, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2003;348(26):2635–45. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa022615
Balas EA, Boren SA. Managing Clinical Knowledge for Health Care Improvement. Yearb Med Inform. 2000;09(1):65–70. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1637943
Chalmers I, Glasziou P. Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence. Lancet. 2009;374(9683):86–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60329-9
von Niederhäusern B, Magnin A, Pauli-Magnus C. The impact of clinical trial units on the value of clinical research in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148:w14615. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2018.14615
Eccles MP, Mittman BS. Welcome to Implementation Science. Implement Sci. 2006;1(1):1. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-1-1
Neta G, Brownson RC, Chambers DA. Opportunities for epidemiologists in implementation science: A primer. Am J Epidemiol. 2018;187(5):899–910. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx323

Publication image

How to Cite

1.

De Geest S, Zúñiga F, Brunkert T, Deschodt M, Zullig LL, Wyss K, Utzinger J. Powering Swiss health care for the future: implementation science to bridge “the valley of death”. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2020 Sep. 14 [cited 2024 Apr. 19];150(3738):w20323. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2871

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Jürg Utzinger, Sören L. Becker, Stefanie Knopp, Johannes Blum, Andreas L. Neumayr, Jennifer Keiser, Christoph F. Hatz, Neglected tropical diseases: diagnosis, clinical management, treatment and control , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 142 No. 4748 (2012)
Elke Lauber, Annette Kindlimann, Dunja Nicca, Renate Altermatt-von Arb, Corina Sgier, Sandra Staudacher, Monique Sailer Schramm, Franziska Vökt, Franziska Zúñiga, Integration of an advanced practice nurse into a primary care practice: a qualitative analysis of experiences with changes in general practitioner professional roles in a Swiss multiprofessional primary care practice , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 152 No. 2526 (2022)
Mario Desmedt, Sabina De Geest, Maria Schubert, René Schwendimann, Dietmar Ausserhofer, A multi-method study on the quality of the nurse work environment in acute-care hospitals: positioning Switzerland in the Magnet hospital research , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 142 No. 5152 (2012)
Christian Auer, Sabine Kiefer, Meike Zuske, Christian Schindler, Kaspar Wyss, Johannes Blum, Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Ursula Widmer, Sonia Sauthier, Jean-Paul Janssens, Katharina Bossard, Christophe Chatonnet, Jesica Mazza-Stalder, Bea Zacek, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Ekkehardt Altpeter, Mirjam Mäusezahl, Health-seeking behaviour and treatment delay in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Switzerland: some slip through the net , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 148 No. 3536 (2018)
Rita Achermann, Michael Koller, Sabina De Geest, Karine Hadaya, Thomas F. Müller, Uyen Huynh-Do, Manuel Pascual, Jürg Steiger, Alexander Kiss, Isabelle Binet, Demographic, psychosocial and health disparities between living and deceased renal allograft recipients in Switzerland , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 151 No. 3132 (2021)
Frédérique Chammartin, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Jürg Utzinger, Penelope Vounatsou, Mortality atlas of the main causes of death in Switzerland, 2008–2012 , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 146 No. 0708 (2016)
Dietmar Ausserhofer, Maria Schubert, Sandra Engberg, Mary Blegen, Sabina De Geest, René Schwendimann, Nurse-reported patient safety climate in Swiss hospitals , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 142 No. 0304 (2012)
Sabine Kiefer, Kerstin Kling, Roger Stephan, Martin W. Bratschi, Marianne Jost, Philipp Justus Bless, Claudia Schmutz, Daniel Mäusezahl, Kaspar Wyss, Mirjam Mäusezahl-Feuz, Christoph Hatz, How can patients and their physicians contribute to an outbreak investigation? Experiences from a nationwide listeriosis outbreak in Switzerland , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 146 No. 4546 (2016)
Roswitha Koch, Romy Mahrer-Imhof, Claudia Huber, Gabriela Schmid-Mohler, Katharina Fierz, Franziska Zúñiga, Jean-Luc Tuma, Andrea Ullmann-Bremi, Christine Bally, Ursula Wiesli, Maya Zumstein-Shaha, Manuela Eicher, Comment on: Chmiel C, et al. Four-year long-term follow-up of diabetes patients after implementation of the Chronic Care Model in primary care , Swiss Medical Weekly: Vol. 149 No. 0910 (2019)

[1] Scheidegger D. Medizinischer Fortschritt: Warum verläuft dieTranslation biologischer Erkenntnisse in neue Therapien so schleppend? SAMW Bulletin. 2019;3:1–2.

[2] Health2030 – the Federal Council’s health policy strategy for the period 2020–2030. Available from: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/strategie-und-politik/gesundheit-2030/gesundheitspolitische-strategie-2030.html [cited 2020 May 12].

[3] United Nations. About the sustainable development goals. Available from: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ [cited 2020 May 12].

[4] Vincent C, Staines A. Enhancing the Quality and Safety of Swiss Healthcare. Bern: Federal Office of Public Health. 2019.

[5] McGlynn EA, Asch SM, Adams J, Keesey J, Hicks J, DeCristofaro A, et al. The quality of health care delivered to adults in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2003;348(26):2635–45. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa022615

[6] Balas EA, Boren SA. Managing Clinical Knowledge for Health Care Improvement. Yearb Med Inform. 2000;09(1):65–70. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1637943

[7] Chalmers I, Glasziou P. Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence. Lancet. 2009;374(9683):86–9. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60329-9

[8] von Niederhäusern B, Magnin A, Pauli-Magnus C. The impact of clinical trial units on the value of clinical research in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2018;148:w14615. doi:.https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2018.14615

[9] Eccles MP, Mittman BS. Welcome to Implementation Science. Implement Sci. 2006;1(1):1. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-1-1

[10] Neta G, Brownson RC, Chambers DA. Opportunities for epidemiologists in implementation science: A primer. Am J Epidemiol. 2018;187(5):899–910. doi:.https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx323