Publications by authors named "S B Lydon"

Background: In recent years, proactive strengths-based approaches to improving quality of care have been advocated. The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those who perform exceptionally well. Central to this approach is the identification of the specific strategies, behaviours, tools and contextual strategies used by those positive deviants to perform exceptionally well.

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The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those that perform exceptionally well. Positive deviance as an approach to quality improvement is gaining traction in general practice. This study aimed to explore and compare stakeholders' perceptions of the factors that support the delivery of exceptional care in general practice and to refine a previously developed theoretical framework of factors associated with positively deviant care in general practice: the Identifying and Disseminating the Exceptional to Achieve Learning (IDEAL) framework.

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This study aims to design and pilot an empirically based mobile application () to increase daily activity in persons with apathy and ADRD and test its feasibility and preliminary efficacy. was developed to address impairments in goal-directed behaviour, including difficulty with initiation, planning, and motivation that contribute to apathy. Participants included patients with apathy and MCI, mild bvFTD, or mild AD and their caregivers.

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Background: Measuring and monitoring safety (MMS) is critical to the success of safety improvement efforts in healthcare. However, a major challenge to improving safety is the lack of high quality information to support performance evaluation.

Aims: The aim of this study was to use Vincent et al.

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