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Health systems worldwide struggle to identify, adopt, and implement in a timely and system-wide manner the best—evidence-informed—policy-level practices. Yet, there is still only limited evidence about individ...
Implementation Science 2017 12:116
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research
Poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) can be seen as failure to meet recommended targets for management of key risk factors including glycaemic control, blood pressure and lipids. Poor control of r...
Implementation Science 2017 12:115
Published on: 16 September 2017
Research
Advanced Computerized Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) assist clinicians in their decision-making process, generating recommendations based on up-to-date scientific evidence. Although this technology has the p...
Implementation Science 2017 12:113
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research
Indigenous smoking rates are up to 80% among pregnant women: prevalence among pregnant Australian Indigenous women was 45% in 2014, contributing significantly to the health gap for Indigenous Australians. We a...
Implementation Science 2017 12:114
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research
Knowledge produced through applied health research is often of a form not readily accessible to or actionable by policymakers and practitioners, which hinders its implementation. Our aim was to identify resear...
Implementation Science 2017 12:112
Published on: 8 September 2017
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Implementing treatments and interventions with demonstrated effectiveness is critical for improving patient health outcomes at a reduced cost. When an evidence-based intervention (EBI) is implemented with fide...
Implementation Science 2017 12:111
Published on: 6 September 2017
Research
Veterans Health Affairs (VA) home-based primary care (HBPC) is an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach to non-institutional long-term care that was developed in urban settings to provide longitudinal care...
Implementation Science 2017 12:109
Published on: 2 September 2017
Research
Understanding sustainability is one of the significant implementation science challenges. One of the big challenges in researching sustainability is the lack of consistent definitions in the literature. Most i...
Implementation Science 2017 12:110
Published on: 2 September 2017
Research
Implementation outcome measures are essential for monitoring and evaluating the success of implementation efforts. Yet, currently available measures lack conceptual clarity and have largely unknown reliability...
Implementation Science 2017 12:108
Published on: 29 August 2017
Systematic review
It is increasingly acknowledged that differentiated care models hold potential to manage large volumes of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Various group-based models of ART service delivery aimed at d...
Implementation Science 2017 12:107
Published on: 25 August 2017
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Theories, models, and frameworks used by implementation science, including Diffusion of Innovations, tend to focus on the adoption of one innovation, when often organizations may be facing multiple simultaneou...
Implementation Science 2017 12:106
Published on: 24 August 2017
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Although clinical guidelines recommend the provision of care to reduce client chronic disease risk behaviours, such care is provided sub-optimally by primary healthcare providers. A study was undertaken to det...
Implementation Science 2017 12:105
Published on: 22 August 2017
Debate
Implementation Science 2017 12:104
Published on: 16 August 2017
Study protocol
Substance misuse is now encountered in settings beyond addiction specialty care, with schools a point-of-contact for student access to behavioral health services. Marijuana is a leading impetus for adolescent ...
Implementation Science 2017 12:103
Published on: 10 August 2017
Systematic review
The global response to HIV has started over 18 million persons on life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART)—the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)—yet substantial gaps remain: up to 40% of...
Implementation Science 2017 12:102
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Increasing interest in implementation science has generated a demand for education and training opportunities for researchers and practitioners in the field. However, few implementation science courses have be...
Implementation Science 2017 12:101
Published on: 2 August 2017
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Engaging stakeholders from varied organizational levels is essential to successful healthcare quality improvement. However, engagement has been hard to achieve and to measure across diverse stakeholders. Furth...
Implementation Science 2017 12:98
Published on: 1 August 2017
Research
The Stroke Canada Optimization of Rehabilitation by Evidence-Implementation Trial (SCORE-IT) showed that a facilitated knowledge translation (KT) approach to implementing a stroke rehabilitation guideline was ...
Implementation Science 2017 12:100
Published on: 1 August 2017
Study protocol
Multimorbidity, defined as the presence of at least two chronic conditions, becomes increasingly common in older people and is associated with poorer health outcomes and significant polypharmacy. The National ...
Implementation Science 2017 12:99
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Implementation Science 2017 12:97
Published on: 28 July 2017
Research
The knowledge exchange literature suggests that policy dialogues are intended to enhance short-, medium- and long-term capacities of individuals, organizations and health systems to use evidence to inform poli...
Implementation Science 2017 12:96
Published on: 28 July 2017
Research
Feedback is widely used as a strategy to improve the quality of care in primary care settings. As part of a study conducted to explore the quality of preventive care, we investigated general practitioners’ (GP...
Implementation Science 2017 12:95
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research
The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is an effective lifestyle intervention to reduce incidence of type 2 diabetes. However, there are gaps in knowledge about how to implement DPP. The aim of this study was t...
Implementation Science 2017 12:94
Published on: 26 July 2017
Research
While some research training programs have considered the importance of mentoring in inspiring professionals to engage in translational research, most evaluations emphasize outcomes specific to academic produc...
Implementation Science 2017 12:92
Published on: 24 July 2017
Systematic review
Some outcomes for children with mental health problems remain suboptimal because of poor access to care and the failure of systems and providers to adopt established quality improvement strategies and interven...
Implementation Science 2017 12:93
Published on: 24 July 2017
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