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  1. Despite the increased risk of cervical cancer (CC) among women living with HIV (WLHIV), CC screening and treatment (CCST) rates remain low in Africa. The integration of CCST services into established HIV progr...

    Authors: Babayemi O. Olakunde, Ijeoma U. Itanyi, John O. Olawepo, Lin Liu, Chinenye Bembir, Ngozi Idemili-Aronu, Nwamaka N. Lasebikan, Tonia C. Onyeka, Cyril C. Dim, Chibuike O. Chigbu, Echezona E. Ezeanolue and Gregory A. Aarons
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:25
  2. Clinical practice guidelines recommend against the routine use of psychotropic medications in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Knowledge brokers are individuals or groups who facilitate the transfer o...

    Authors: J. Simon Bell, Adam La Caze, Michelle Steeper, Terry P. Haines, Sarah N. Hilmer, Lakkhina Troeung, Lyntara Quirke, Jacqueline Wesson, Constance Dimity Pond, Laurie Buys, Nazanin Ghahreman-Falconer, Michael T. Lawless, Shakti Shrestha, Angelita Martini, Nancy Ochieng, Francesca Glamorgan…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:24
  3. Antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge is common, costly, and harmful. While discharge-specific antibiotic stewardship interventions are effective, they are resource-intensive and often infeasible for hospit...

    Authors: Julia E. Szymczak, Lindsay A. Petty, Tejal N. Gandhi, Robert A. Neetz, Adam Hersh, Angela P. Presson, Peter K. Lindenauer, Steven J. Bernstein, Brandi M. Muller, Andrea T. White, Jennifer K. Horowitz, Scott A. Flanders, Justin D. Smith and Valerie M. Vaughn
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:23
  4. The United States (US) continues to face decades-long increases in opioid overdose fatalities. As an opioid overdose reversal medication, naloxone can dramatically reduce opioid overdose mortality rates when d...

    Authors: Barrot H. Lambdin, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Bryan R. Garner, Lynn D. Wenger, Erica N. Browne, Terry Morris, Lee Ongais, Cariné E. Megerian and Alex H. Kral
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:22
  5. Implementation strategies can be a vital leveraging point for enhancing the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based suicide prevention interventions and programming. However, much remains unknown ab...

    Authors: Jason I. Chen, Brandon Roth, Steven K. Dobscha and Julie C. Lowery
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:20
  6. Childhood cancer treatment while often curative, leads to elevated risks of morbidity and mortality. Survivors require lifelong periodic surveillance for late effects of treatment, yet adherence to guideline-r...

    Authors: Jennifer Shuldiner, Emily Lam, Nida Shah, Jeremy Grimshaw, Laura Desveaux, Ruth Heisey, Michael S. Taccone, Monica Taljaard, Kednapa Thavorn, David Hodgson, Sumit Gupta, Aisha Lofters, Noah Ivers and Paul C. Nathan
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:19
  7. Given the steady decline in patient numbers at methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinics in Taiwan since 2013, the government initiated Patients’ Medical Expenditure Supplements (PMES) in January 2019 and...

    Authors: Yu-Chu Ella Chung, Yu-Chi Tung, Sheng-Chang Wang, Chieh-Liang Huang, Lian-Yu Chen and Wei J. Chen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:18
  8. The field of implementation science was developed to address the significant time delay between establishing an evidence-based practice and its widespread use. Although implementation science has contributed m...

    Authors: Katy E. Trinkley, Ruopeng An, Anna M. Maw, Russell E. Glasgow and Ross C. Brownson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:17
  9. Sustaining evidence-based practices (EBPs) is crucial to ensuring care quality and addressing health disparities. Approaches to identifying factors related to sustainability are critically needed. One such app...

    Authors: Bo Kim, Jennifer L. Sullivan, Madisen E. Brown, Samantha L. Connolly, Elizabeth G. Spitzer, Hannah M. Bailey, Lauren M. Sippel, Kendra Weaver and Christopher J. Miller
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:16
  10. The gap between research findings and clinical practice is well documented and a range of strategies have been developed to support the implementation of research into clinical practice. The objective of this ...

    Authors: Annette Boaz, Juan Baeza, Alec Fraser and Erik Persson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:15
  11. A myriad of federal, state, and organizational policies are designed to improve access to evidence-based healthcare, but the impact of these policies likely varies due to contextual determinants of, reinterpre...

    Authors: H. Irene Su, Bonnie N. Kaiser, Erika L. Crable, Ricardo Flores Ortega, Sara W. Yoeun, Melina A. Economou, Estefania Fernandez, Sally A. D. Romero, Gregory A. Aarons and Sara B. McMenamin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:14
  12. Cross-system interventions that integrate health, behavioral health, and social services can improve client outcomes and expand community impact. Successful implementation of these interventions depends on the...

    Authors: Alicia C. Bunger, Emmeline Chuang, Amanda M. Girth, Kathryn E. Lancaster, Rebecca Smith, Rebecca J. Phillips, Jared Martin, Fawn Gadel, Tina Willauer, Marla J. Himmeger, Jennifer Millisor, Jen McClellan, Byron J. Powell, Lisa Saldana and Gregory A. Aarons
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:13
  13. This study’s goal is to identify the existing variation in how, why, and by whom anthropological practice is conducted as part of implementation science projects. As doctorally trained anthropologists, we soug...

    Authors: Elissa Z. Faro, Peter Taber, Aaron T. Seaman, Ellen B. Rubinstein, Gemmae M. Fix, Heather Healy and Heather Schacht Reisinger
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:12
  14. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have the potential to improve quality of care, patient safety, and efficiency because of their ability to perform medical tasks in a more data-driven, evidence-based, ...

    Authors: Sophia Ackerhans, Thomas Huynh, Carsten Kaiser and Carsten Schultz
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:11
  15. Implementation science groups change methods into two categories: (1) clinical, behavioral, or biomedical intervention targeting recipient’s health outcomes and (2) implementation strategies targeting the deliver...

    Authors: Justin D. Smith, Dennis H. Li, James L. Merle, Brennan Keiser, Brian Mustanski and Nanette D. Benbow
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:10
  16. Public health programs are charged with implementing evidence-based interventions to support public health improvement; however, to achieve long-term population-based benefits, these interventions must be sust...

    Authors: Sarah Moreland-Russell, Todd Combs, Jessica Gannon, Eliot Jost, Louise Farah Saliba, Kimberly Prewitt, Douglas Luke and Ross C. Brownson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:9
  17. It is unclear how to disseminate the results of randomised controlled trials effectively to health professionals and policymakers to improve treatment, care or prevention through changing policy and practice. ...

    Authors: Annabelle South, Julia V. Bailey, Mahesh K. B. Parmar and Claire L. Vale
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:8
  18. Building healthcare service and health professionals’ capacity and capability to rapidly translate research evidence into health practice is critical to the effectiveness and sustainability of healthcare syste...

    Authors: Olivia King, Emma West, Laura Alston, Hannah Beks, Michele Callisaya, Catherine E. Huggins, Margaret Murray, Kevin Mc Namara, Michael Pang, Warren Payne, Anna Peeters, Mia Pithie, Alesha M. Sayner and Anna Wong Shee
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:7
  19. Although moderate physical activity (PA) during cancer treatment has been associated with improved quality of life, reduced side effects, and even lower mortality, many barriers to successful implementation re...

    Authors: Olivier Aromatario, Linda Cambon, François Alla, Alexis Imbert, Camille Pouchepadass, Nathalie Renvoisé, Sarah Dauchy and Cécile Charles
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:6
  20. Despite substantial research evidence indicating the effectiveness of a range of interventions to prevent falls, uptake into routine clinical practice has been limited by several implementation challenges. The...

    Authors: Maria Bjerk, Signe A. Flottorp, Are Hugo Pripp, Henning Øien, Tonya Moen Hansen, Robbie Foy, Jacqueline Close, Siv Linnerud, Therese Brovold, Rune Solli, Nina Rydland Olsen, Dawn A. Skelton, Elisabeth Rydwik, Jorunn L. Helbostad, Gro Idland, Linda Kvæl…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:5
  21. Little is known about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer implementation strategies in supporting mental health evidence-based practices in schools, and about the optimal level of sup...

    Authors: Ricardo Eiraldi, Gwendolyn M. Lawson, Henry A. Glick, Muniya S. Khanna, Rinad Beidas, Jessica Fishman, Quinn Rabenau-McDonnell, Tara Wilson, Rachel Comly, Billie S. Schwartz and Abbas F. Jawad
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:4
  22. Characterizing the diffusion of adopted changes in policy and clinical practice can inform enhanced implementation strategies to ensure prompt uptake in public health emergencies and other rapidly evolving dis...

    Authors: Megan Kurz, Brenda Carolina Guerra-Alejos, Jeong Eun Min, Brittany Barker, Bernadette Pauly, Karen Urbanoski and Bohdan Nosyk
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:3
  23. For approximately one in five children who have social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) challenges, accessible evidence-based prevention practices (EBPPs) are critical. In the USA, schools are the primary sett...

    Authors: Aaron R. Lyon, Clayton R. Cook, Madeline Larson, Maria L. Hugh, Alex Dopp, Corinne Hamlin, Peter Reinke, Mahasweta Bose, Amy Law, Roger Goosey, Annie Goerdt, Nicole Morrell, Alisha Wackerle-Hollman and Michael D. Pullmann
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:2
  24. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) improve quality and efficiency of healthcare, but effective practices for implementing new ICTs are unknown. From 2019 to 2021, the Veterans Health Administrat...

    Authors: Chelsea Leonard, Evan Carey, Ariel Holstein, P. Michael Ho and Jeffrey T. Heckman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:1
  25. Authors: Jacob Crawshaw, Carly Meyer, Vivi Antonopoulou, Jesmin Antony, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Noah Ivers, Kristin Konnyu, Meagan Lacroix, Justin Presseau, Michelle Simeoni, Sharlini Yogasingam and Fabiana Lorencatto
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:73

    The original article was published in Implementation Science 2023 18:63

  26. Uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains problematically low in the USA, especially in rural areas. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is associated with lower uptake, which translates to higher susceptibility to SARS-CoV-...

    Authors: Geoffrey Curran, Cynthia Mosley, Abigail Gamble, Jacob Painter, Songthip Ounpraseuth, Noel T. Brewer, Ben Teeter, Megan Smith, Jacquie Halladay, Tamera Hughes, J. Greene Shepherd, Tessa Hastings, Kit Simpson and Delesha Carpenter
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:72
  27. Unwarranted clinical variation in hospital care includes the underuse, overuse, or misuse of services. Audit and feedback is a common strategy to reduce unwarranted variation, but its effectiveness varies wide...

    Authors: Mitchell Sarkies, Emilie Francis-Auton, Janet Long, Natalie Roberts, Johanna Westbrook, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Diane E. Watson, Rebecca Hardwick, Kim Sutherland, Gary Disher, Peter Hibbert and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:71
  28. Fall prevention alarms are commonly used among US hospitals as a fall prevention strategy despite limited evidence of effectiveness. Further, fall prevention alarms are harmful to healthcare staff (e.g., alarm...

    Authors: Kea Turner, Molly McNett, Catima Potter, Emily Cramer, Mona Al Taweel, Ronald I. Shorr and Lorraine C. Mion
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:70
  29. Knowledge translation (KT) strategies are widely used to facilitate the implementation of EBIs into healthcare practices. However, it is unknown what and how KT strategies are used to facilitate the sustainabi...

    Authors: Rachel Flynn, Christine Cassidy, Lauren Dobson, Joyce Al-Rassi, Jodi Langley, Jennifer Swindle, Ian D. Graham and Shannon D. Scott
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:69
  30. Under- and uninsured cancer survivors have significant medical, social, and economic complexity. For these survivors, effective care coordination between oncology and primary care teams is critical for high-qu...

    Authors: Serena A. Rodriguez, Simon Craddock Lee, Robin T. Higashi, Patricia M. Chen, Rebecca L. Eary, Navid Sadeghi, Noel Santini and Bijal A. Balasubramanian
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:68
  31. Germ Defence (www.​germdefence.​org) is an evidence-based interactive website that promotes behaviour change for infection control within households. To maximi...

    Authors: Ben Ainsworth, Jeremy Horwood, Scott R. Walter, Sascha Miller, Melanie Chalder, Frank De Vocht, James Denison-Day, Martha M. C. Elwenspoek, Helen J. Curtis, Chris Bates, Amir Mehrkar, Seb Bacon, Ben Goldacre, Pippa Craggs, Richard Amlôt, Nick Francis…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:67
  32. Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Kenyan women. Integrating cervical cancer screening into family planning (FP) clinics is a promising strategy to improve health for reproductive-aged wom...

    Authors: McKenna C. Eastment, George Wanje, Barbra A. Richardson, Emily Mwaringa, Shem Patta, Kenneth Sherr, Ruanne V. Barnabas, Kishorchandra Mandaliya, Walter Jaoko and R. Scott Mcclelland
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:66
  33. Increased breast density augments breast cancer risk and reduces mammography sensitivity. Supplemental breast MRI screening can significantly increase cancer detection among women with dense breasts. However, ...

    Authors: Anne Marie McCarthy, Claudia Fernandez Perez, Rinad S. Beidas, Justin E. Bekelman, Daniel Blumenthal, Elizabeth Mack, Anna-Marika Bauer, Sarah Ehsan, Emily F. Conant, Bernadette C. Wheeler, Carmen E. Guerra, Linda W. Nunes, Peter Gabriel, Abigail Doucette, E. Paul Wileyto, Alison M. Buttenheim…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:65
  34. Dual randomized controlled trials (DRCT) are type 2 hybrid studies that include two randomized trials: one testing implementation strategies and one testing an intervention. We argue that this study design off...

    Authors: June Stevens, Sarah Denton Mills, Thomas J. Millett, Feng-Chang Lin and Jennifer Leeman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:64
  35. Audit and feedback (A&F) is among the most widely used implementation strategies, providing healthcare professionals with summaries of their practice performance to prompt behaviour change and optimize care. W...

    Authors: Jacob Crawshaw, Carly Meyer, Vivi Antonopoulou, Jesmin Antony, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Noah Ivers, Kristin Konnyu, Meagan Lacroix, Justin Presseau, Michelle Simeoni, Sharlini Yogasingam and Fabiana Lorencatto
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:63

    The Correction to this article has been published in Implementation Science 2023 18:73

  36. To identify barriers and facilitators associated with the sustainability of implemented and evaluated improvement programs in healthcare delivery systems.

    Authors: Yvonne Zurynski, Kristiana Ludlow, Luke Testa, Hanna Augustsson, Jessica Herkes-Deane, Karen Hutchinson, Gina Lamprell, Elise McPherson, Ann Carrigan, Louise A. Ellis, Putu Novi Arfirsta Dharmayani, Carolynn L. Smith, Lieke Richardson, Genevieve Dammery, Nehal Singh and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:62
  37. Context including the external context may considerably affect the adoption, implementation, sustainment, and scale-up of evidence-based practices. We investigated external contextual features by conducting a ...

    Authors: Jaakko Harkko, Noora Sipilä, Hilla Nordquist, Tea Lallukka, Kaija Appelqvist-Schmidlechner, Michael Donnelly and Anne Kouvonen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:61
  38. Informal caregivers of people with dementia (PwD) living at home are often the primary source of care, and, in their role, they often experience loss of quality of life. Implementation science knowledge is nee...

    Authors: Eden Meng Zhu, Martina Buljac-Samardžić, Kees Ahaus, Nick Sevdalis and Robbert Huijsman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:60
  39. The Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 pandemic motivated the wide-scale adoption of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives within healthcare organizations and the creation of DEI...

    Authors: Tory H. Hogan, Brian P. O’Rourke, Eddie Weeks, Geoffrey A. Silvera and Seongwon Choi
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:59
  40. Over the past three decades, policy actors and actions have been highly influential in supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in mental health settings. An early examination of these ...

    Authors: Whitney K. Wortham, Aaron H. Rodwin, Jonathan Purtle, Michelle R. Munson and Ramesh Raghavan
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:58
  41. Germline genetic testing is recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for individuals including, but not limited to, those with a personal history of ovarian cancer, young-onset (< 50 yea...

    Authors: Heather Symecko, Robert Schnoll, Rinad S. Beidas, Justin E. Bekelman, Daniel Blumenthal, Anna-Marika Bauer, Peter Gabriel, Leland Boisseau, Abigail Doucette, Jacquelyn Powers, Jacqueline Cappadocia, Danielle B. McKenna, Robert Richardville, Lauren Cuff, Ryan Offer, Elizabeth G. Clement…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:57
  42. The Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project developed a compilation of implementation strategies that are intended to standardize reporting and evaluation. Little is known about the appli...

    Authors: Kathryn L. Lovero, Christopher G. Kemp, Bradley H. Wagenaar, Ali Giusto, M. Claire Greene, Byron J. Powell and Enola K. Proctor
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:56
  43. The status of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) as the ‘gold standard’ for evaluating efficacy in healthcare interventions is increasingly debated among the research community, due to often insufficient cons...

    Authors: Allison Williams, Laura Lennox, Matthew Harris and Grazia Antonacci
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:55
  44. Audit and feedback (A&F) is a widely used implementation strategy to influence health professionals’ behavior that is often tested in implementation trials. This study examines how A&F trials describe sustaina...

    Authors: Celia Laur, Zeenat Ladak, Alix Hall, Nathan M. Solbak, Nicole Nathan, Shewit Buzuayne, Janet A. Curran, Rachel C. Shelton and Noah Ivers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:54
  45. Although healthcare is delivered in inherently multilevel contexts, implementation science has no widely endorsed methodological standards defining the characteristics of rigorous, multilevel implementation re...

    Authors: Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Nathaniel J. Williams, Mark G. Ehrhart, Cathleen E. Willging, Alicia C. Bunger, Rinad S. Beidas and Gregory A. Aarons
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:52
  46. Inequities in implementation contribute to the unequal benefit of health interventions between groups of people with differing levels of advantage in society. Implementation science theories, models and framew...

    Authors: Papillon Gustafson, Yasmin Abdul Aziz, Michelle Lambert, Karen Bartholomew, Nicole Rankin, Adam Fusheini, Rachel Brown, Peter Carswell, Mihi Ratima, Patricia Priest and Sue Crengle
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:51
  47. Financial barriers in substance use disorder service systems have limited the widespread adoption—i.e., provider-level reach—of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for youth substance use disorders. Reach is essen...

    Authors: Alex R. Dopp, Sarah B. Hunter, Mark D. Godley, Isabelle González, Michelle Bongard, Bing Han, Jonathan Cantor, Grace Hindmarch, Kerry Lindquist, Blanche Wright, Danielle Schlang, Lora L. Passetti, Kelli L. Wright, Beau Kilmer, Gregory A. Aarons and Jonathan Purtle
    Citation: Implementation Science 2023 18:50

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