Institutionalization

=**Institutionalization/Institutionalisation (N=1)**=


 * Definition 1:** The process by which the innovation becomes a part of the business as usual (the 'common'sense' world of practice) and ceases to be consisdered new. Synonyms include frozen, stabilised. Accepted, sustained, durable, persistent, and maintained, routinised, incorporated, continued and built in-ness
 * Source:** Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Bate P, Macfarlane F, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in health service organizations. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005.
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