The Chain of Codified Knowledge: Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries

Roman Kislov; Paul Wilson; Greta Cummings; Anna Ehrenberg; Wendy Gifford; Janet Kelly; Alison Kitson; Lena Pettersson; Lars Wallin; Gill Harvey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26684-4_11

The Chain of Codified Knowledge: Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries

Roman Kislov, Paul Wilson, Greta Cummings, Anna Ehrenberg, Wendy Gifford, Janet Kelly, Alison Kitson, Lena Pettersson, Lars Wallin, Gill Harvey

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

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Kislov and colleagues draw on multiple qualitative case studies of evidence-based nursing conducted in Sweden, Canada, Australia and the UK to describe the chain of codified knowledge which reflects the institutionalisation of evidence-based practice as organisational “business as usual”. This chain is dominated by performance standards, policies and procedures and locally collected data, i.e. various forms of “evidence by proxy” which are, at best, informed by research only partly or indirectly, but are nevertheless perceived as credible evidence. This chapter reveals dual effects of this codification dynamic on evidence-based practice and highlights the influence of macro-level ideological, historical and technological factors on the composition and circulation of codified knowledge. It concludes by outlining the practical implications of the study for change agency in health-care reform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services
Subtitle of host publication	Building Knowledge, Strategy and Leadership
Editors	Peter Nugus, Charo Rodriguez, Jean-Louis Denis, Denis Chênevert
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	11
Pages	243-267
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-26684-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-26683-7, 978-3-030-26686-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26684-4_11
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare
ISSN (Print)	2662-1053
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-1045

Keywords

Evidence-based health care
Clinical guidelines
Research evidence
Codifies knowledge
Codification
Cross-country analysis
Codified knowledge

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Kislov, R., Wilson, P., Cummings, G., Ehrenberg, A., Gifford, W., Kelly, J., Kitson, A., Pettersson, L., Wallin, L., & Harvey, G. (2020). The Chain of Codified Knowledge: Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries. In P. Nugus, C. Rodriguez, J-L. Denis, & D. Chênevert (Eds.), Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services: Building Knowledge, Strategy and Leadership (pp. 243-267). (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26684-4_11

Kislov, Roman ; Wilson, Paul ; Cummings, Greta et al. / The Chain of Codified Knowledge : Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries. Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services: Building Knowledge, Strategy and Leadership. editor / Peter Nugus ; Charo Rodriguez ; Jean-Louis Denis ; Denis Chênevert. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. pp. 243-267 (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare).

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Kislov R, Wilson P, Cummings G, Ehrenberg A, Gifford W, Kelly J et al. The Chain of Codified Knowledge: Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries. In Nugus P, Rodriguez C, Denis J-L, Chênevert D, editors, Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services: Building Knowledge, Strategy and Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. p. 243-267. (Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-26684-4_11

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