The relationship between the living lab approach and successful implementation of healthcare innovations: an integrative review

Zipfel, Nina; Horreh, Bedra; Hulshof, Carel; Boer, Angela G. E. M. de; Burg-Vermeulen, Sylvia J. van der

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058630

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“…Our approach, however, expands the living labs’ tradition from a grounding in social innovation, partnerships, and open approaches to operationalisation of these factors within a lived-experience context. Therefore, we intentionally brought together the practices of Co-Design with Living Labs for the naming and setup of the program ( 19 , 29 ).…”

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A co-design living labs philosophy of practice for end-to-end research design to translation with people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family and kinship groups

Palmer,

Bibb,

Lewis

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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There is increased recognition that people with lived-experience of mental ill-health ought to be centred in research design, implementation and translation, and quality improvement and program evaluation of services. There is also an increased focus on ways to ensure that co-design processes can be led by people with lived-experience of mental ill-health. Despite this, there remains limited explanation of the physical, social, human, and economic infrastructure needed to create and sustain such models in research and service settings. This is particularly pertinent for all health service sectors (across mental and physical health and social services) but more so across tertiary education settings where research generation occurs for implementation and translation activities with policy and services. The Co-Design Living Labs program was established in 2017 as an example of a community-based embedded approach to bring people living with trauma and mental ill-health and carers/family and kinship group members together with university-based researchers to drive end-to-end research design to translation in mental healthcare and research sectors. The program’s current membership is near to 2000 people. This study traces the evolution of the program in the context of the living labs tradition of open innovation. It overviews the philosophy of practice for working with people with lived-experience and carer/family and kinship group members—togetherness by design. Togetherness by design centres on an ethical relation of being-for that moves beyond unethical and transactional approaches of being-aside and being-with, as articulated by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The retrospective outlines how an initial researcher-driven model can evolve and transform to become one where people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family kinship group members hold clear decision-making roles, share in power to enact change, and move into co-researcher roles within research teams. Eight mechanisms are presented in the context of an explanatory theoretical model of change for co-design and coproduction, which are used to frame research co-design activities and provide space for continuous learning and evolution of the Co-Design Living Labs program.

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A co-design living labs philosophy of practice for end-to-end research design to translation with people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family and kinship groups

Palmer,

Bibb,

Lewis

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…A distinct feature of LLs is the quadruple helix partnership, which allows for representatives from the public sector, academic institutions, companies, and citizens to be involved [ 6 ], ensuring end-users are actively engaged in the open innovation process [ 7 , 8 ]. Actively engaging in this way is popular in health and social care due to the emphasis on user-centric involvement and participation [ 9 , 10 ].…”

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“…The co-creation phase signed off the new service, including agreeing on which technological and non-technological innovations would be used to support the reablement of people with dementia [ 17 ]. The mediating value for the service and the corresponding innovations package was that any innovation should enable people with dementia and their informal carers to live well, thus improving their quality of life [ 8 , 13 ]. This phase was aligned with a participatory action research process, with people with dementia and their informal carers driving this process through the quadruple helix partnership, akin to a citizen approach [ 27 , 28 ].…”

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How Do We Know Co-Created Solutions Work Effectively within the Real World of People Living with Dementia? Learning Methodological Lessons from a Co-Creation-to-Evaluation Case Study

Smith

Dixon

Ganga

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Living Labs (LL) are a novel and potentially robust way of addressing real-life health challenges, especially within the dementia field. Generally, LLs focus on co-creating through implementing the quadruple helix partnership as a user-centric approach to co-creating. In the context of this paper, the users were people with dementia and their informal carers. LL are not necessarily environments that evaluate these co-created innovations within the real world. Considering this disconnect between co-creation and real-world evaluation, this paper, as a critical commentary, will reflect on the methodological lessons learnt during the development of an LL model aimed at addressing this discrepancy. The LL at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) was commissioned to co-create and then evaluate a new Dementia Reablement Service. The case study findings revealed that the Dementia Reablement Service had a positive impact on the quality of life of people with dementia, suggesting that the service is a catalyst for positive change. In addition, the critical learning from this case study highlights the potential role of LLs in seamlessly co-creating and then evaluating the co-created solution within the real world. A benefit of this way of working is that it provides opportunities for LLs to secure access to traditional research funding.

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“…Despite these benefits, well-supported evidence-based care practices can take an average of 17 years to reach the patient bedside, with persistent variation in practice 2. The health care environment is complex, as are the clinical interventions being implemented 3. Therefore, successful integration of clinical best practices can be bolstered by applying implementation science to understand the specific aspects of the context—particularly determinants such as barriers and facilitators.…”

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“…2 The health care environment is complex, as are the clinical interventions being implemented. 3 Therefore, successful integration of clinical best practices can be bolstered by applying implementation science to understand the specific aspects of the context-particularly determinants such as barriers and facilitators. Common techniques for gathering determinants include stakeholder interviews and surveys.…”

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Improving Speed to Bedside: Standardized Tools to Inform High-Quality, Timely Clinical Implementations

Krueger,

Knighton,

Fowles

et al. 2024

Quality Management in Health Care

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The relationship between the living lab approach and successful implementation of healthcare innovations: an integrative review

Cited by 14 publications

References 79 publications

A co-design living labs philosophy of practice for end-to-end research design to translation with people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family and kinship groups

A co-design living labs philosophy of practice for end-to-end research design to translation with people with lived-experience of mental ill-health and carer/family and kinship groups

How Do We Know Co-Created Solutions Work Effectively within the Real World of People Living with Dementia? Learning Methodological Lessons from a Co-Creation-to-Evaluation Case Study

Improving Speed to Bedside: Standardized Tools to Inform High-Quality, Timely Clinical Implementations

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