While best practices standards can prevent complacency, they may also slow innovation by satisfying underlying incentives to maintain the status quo. To encourage continued improvement, we must identify areas where standards have reduced innovation and alter incentives to promote further innovation for better patient care.

1.  Often times, both in medicine and other
Question 10 fields, having an options that is good enough
allows us to become complacent and prevents
Are there circumstances innovation
where the existence of a
best practices standard  In many examples, the underlying incentives of the
has slowed innovation in many players involve can prevent innovation from
that area? (i.e. A best being encouraged.
practice already exists so  We must look for ways to identify such situations
we don’t need to think
and change the status quo so we continue to
about further
improvements in that
innovate towards providing better care for our
area.) patients