Table 1 Key concepts and important conditions pertaining to sustainability
From: Defining sustainability in practice: views from implementing real-world innovations in health care
Key concepts | Important conditions |
|---|---|
 1. Continued capacity to deliver the innovation |  |
 2. Continued delivery of the innovation | 2a. Innovations must continue in the absence of a champion or the person/team who introduced it 2b. Sustainability is only germane to innovations that are still needed |
 3. Continued benefits for the patient, provider, or health system | 3a. Adaptation is critical to ensuring relevancy and fit, and thus to delivering benefits 3b. Sustainability is contingent on being able to demonstrate benefits |