Authors' recommendations: The study has enhanced the theory of individual unlearning by reconceptualising existing unlearning models and developing a new typology that distinguishes between four separate types of individual unlearning. The findings demonstrate that health-care managers who participated in this study engaged with unlearning processes and that this engagement impacted on their decision-making processes. After engaging with individual unlearning, several managers moved away from idea imposition approaches to decision-making in favour of more discovery-focused approaches, which have been reported in academic literature to be more successful. Future work that investigates a greater number of health-care managers' experiences of unlearning in a wider range of settings is necessary to establish the significance of health-care setting to individual unlearning experiences and provide greater generalisability to the findings of this study.

Project Status: Completed

Year Published: 2013

URL for published report: http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/hsdr01020/#/abstract

English language abstract: An English language summary is available

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