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The IMPActS Framework: the necessary requirements for making science-based organizational impact

Fitzgerald, Morgan Choi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191348657812

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2019, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Despite growing pressure for organizations to implement more science-based solutions into practice, efforts to successfully achieve this task have been known to fail due to the tensions that exist between science and application. While there has been a great push in the implementation science, translational science, evidence-based practice, and human factors literature, a void still remains regarding a framework that details the necessary requirements for bridging this known gap. In order to fill this void, I propose The IMPActS Framework, which is founded on the existing literature but acts as a new frame of reference for those trying to translate science into implementations. IMPActS proposes a new standard of what it means to make organizational “impact”, which is now defined as science-based solutions that maintain the maximum appropriate levels of scientific integrity while also being implementable and sustainable in real world practice. IMPActS also acts as an acronym for the five necessary factors each necessary but only jointly sufficient in making this successful definition of impact. These factors are Ideas, Model alignment, Pragmatics, Actors, and Sustainment, and can be thought of as the barriers to making impact that need to be overcome. In this paper, I will describe the IMPActS Framework in more detail and through the lens of three clinical cases, all of which deal with implementing clinical alarm interventions over the last 30 years. The purpose of introducing this framework and comparing it against real-world case studies is to highlight the barriers to making successful impact in hopes that the pathways to successful impact will become more salient, navigable, and tangible for all of those involved. Solution designers should use IMPActS as a means of assessing where to invest their future resources and efforts in order to overcome these barriers in practice.
Michael Rayo (Advisor)
David Woods (Committee Member)
105 p.
Industrial Engineering
impact, organizational impact, human factors, implementation science, translational science, evidence-based practice, knowledge translation, organizational change, behavior change, science-based design, alarm problem, clinical alarms, auditory alarms

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  • Fitzgerald, M. C. (2019). The IMPActS Framework: the necessary requirements for making science-based organizational impact [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191348657812

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Fitzgerald, Morgan. The IMPActS Framework: the necessary requirements for making science-based organizational impact. 2019. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191348657812.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Fitzgerald, Morgan. "The IMPActS Framework: the necessary requirements for making science-based organizational impact." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191348657812

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