Healthcare is a complex adaptive system, and efforts to improve through the implementation of best practice are well served\r\nby various interacting disciplines within the system. As a transdisciplinary model is new to clinicians, an infrastructure that\r\ncreates academic-practice partnerships and builds capacity for scientific collaboration is necessary to test, spread, and implement\r\nimprovement strategies. This paper describes the adoption of best practices from the science of team science in a healthcare\r\nimprovement research network and the impact on conducting a large-scale network study. Key components of the research network\r\ninfrastructure were mapped to a team science framework and evaluated in terms of their effectiveness and impact on a national\r\nstudy of nursing operations. Results fromthis study revealed an effective integration of the teamscience principles which facilitated\r\nthe rapid collection of a large dataset. Implications of this study support a collaborative model for improvement research and stress\r\na need for future research and funding to further evaluate the impact on dissemination and implementation.
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