Question

Why is "The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services" (PARIHS) good to use in a facility that needs a practice change?

Answer 1

The PARiHS system can be used to bring about a change in the practice in the following ways

1. The PARiHS system consolidates all types of evidence that supports a change in practice.
2. This evidence includes evidence obtained from research, experience of the clinicians and patients, organisation's data and local observations.
3. This evidence is more robust as compared to mere research base evidence to bring about a change.
4. Such type evidence is comprehensive and an organisation will find it easy to adapt itself to it.
5. The PARiHs system also evaluated the 'context'.
6. Here the word context means the organisation that is looking for a change.
7. This system evaluated the organisation and hopes to answer the following questions
   1. Is this proposed change relevant to the organisation?
   2. Does the organisation has the capacity to adopt this change?
   3. What are the resources needed to bring about this change?
8. Answering these questions is important before implementing the change.
9. The PARiHS also looks into facilitation of the change.
10. Here facilitation means, the support needed by the members of the organisation to adopt a change.
11. After the decision is made about adopting a new policy, certain people will be required to bring about this change.
12. These people can help the members of an organisation by personally doing work or by empowering the members by educating them with the new policy.