Table 6 Selected resources and tools to support practice and research on evidence-based dissemination and implementation
From: Revisiting concepts of evidence in implementation science
Category | Name | Description | Weblink |
|---|---|---|---|
Engagement and partnerships | Community Tool Box | The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. The Tool Box seeks to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. | |
Engage for Equity | The tools provide a step-by-step approach for research partnerships to examine where they are now and where they want to be in the future. Each step includes a short description and an interactive exercise or tool. | ||
Advancing Health Equity Toolkit | This practice-oriented toolkit leads agencies, teams, community-based organizations, and community partnerships through different public health processes using a health equity lens. The modules include interactive reflection questions across a framework for evidence-based decision-making. | Home | Evidence-Based Decision Making & Health Equity (wixsite.com) | |
Stakeholder Engagement Navigator | The Navigator is designed to help teams select the most appropriate engagement method or tool for a particular project. It is an interactive tool that takes into account the purpose, resources, frequency of engagement, and expertise. | ||
Study planning | Dissemination and Implementation Models in Health Research and Practice | An interactive, online resource designed to help researchers and practitioners navigate dissemination and implementation theories, models, and frameworks through planning, selecting, combining, adapting, using, and linking to measures. Newly added frameworks address the interface between health equity and implementation science. | |
T-CaST (Theory, Model, and Framework Comparison and Selection Tool) | T-CaST offers explicit criteria to facilitate theory comparison during the selection process. The tool is also potentially useful in selecting theories, models, and framework beyond the field of implementation science. | ||
PRECIS-2 (PRagmatic Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary) and PRECIS-2 PS | PRECIS-2 is a tool to help in designing health services research and to consider where a trial lies across 9 dimensions across the pragmatic/explanatory (efficacy) continuum; the newer PRECIS-2 PS is focused on designs related to provider strategies for implementation studies. | https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13012-020-01075-y | |
APEASE (Acceptability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Affordability, Side-effects, and Equity) | The APEASE criteria provide a framework for assessing interventions, intervention components, and ideas. APEASE can be applied to anything from a general concept to a detailed plan for a proposed intervention, or a formal evaluation of an intervention that has already been implemented. | ||
MOST (Multiphase Optimization Strategy) | MOST is a research framework, based on engineering principles, for determining the most efficient and effective version of an intervention. It uses a 3-phase approach to assess the effectiveness of individual program elements and consider whether effectiveness varies depending on context. | ||
The Hexagon Tool | At any stage of implementation, the Hexagon Tool can be used by communities and organizations to better understand how a new or existing program or practice fits into an implementing site’s existing work and context. | ||
Annotated Bibliography of Economic Analysis Resources for Implementation Science | This tool is a compilation of resources, tools, and studies about cost/cost-effectiveness research in implementation science. It covers costing methods and cost-effectiveness analyses that are important for measuring and improving the value of healthcare and public health practices. | cost-annoat-biblio-disc-one-pager-3122119e99fe6302864d9a5bfff0a001ce385.pdf (cuanschutz.edu) | |
Measuring Health Policy Implementation | This website is designed to help policy researchers, evaluators, and implementation science researchers identify and select measures to assess the implementation of health policies in a variety of settings (e.g., hospitals, outpatient clinics, neighborhoods, schools). | ||
Research proposals, articles, reporting, and guidelines | Tool for Rating Research Proposals for Sensitivity to Health Equity Issues | This tool assesses research proposals for their sensitivity to health equity issues. The tool consists of a series of questions that prompt for evaluation of how well equity issues have been considered in terms of the population context, study rationale, intervention design, sample design, data collection and analysis plan, evidence of community engagement, and team composition. | https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/suppl/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305221 |
GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) | GRADE is a transparent framework for developing and presenting summaries of evidence and provides a systematic approach for making clinical practice recommendations. | https://bestpractice.bmj.com/info/us/toolkit/learn-ebm/what-is-grade/ | |
Expanded CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) | The expanded CONSORT includes data about participation and representativeness at multiple levels of settings, as well as staff and individual recipients, and about intervention sustainability after project support ends. It adds a focus on transparent reporting of inclusions, exclusions, and participation at multiple levels and includes a fillable PDF for manuscript submissions. | https://www.re-aim.org/expanded-consort-figure-for-planning-and-reporting-d-i-research/ | |
Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI) Statement | StaRI is used for reporting of implementation studies, which employ a range of study designs to develop and evaluate implementation strategies with the aim of enhancing adoption and sustainability of effective interventions | https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stari-statement/ | |
Dissemination, scale-up, and sustainability | Dissemination Planning Tool | A tool to help researchers evaluate their research and develop appropriate dissemination plans, if the research is determined to have “real-world” impact | https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/resources/advances/vol4/planning.html |
ExpandNet | A global network of representatives from international organizations, non-governmental organizations, academic and research institutions, ministries of health, and specific projects who seek to advance the science and practice of scaling up | ||
Clinical Assessment Sustainability Tool (CSAT) | The CSAT measures the sustainability of evidence-based practices in clinical settings. Users receive a tailored report that can be used by clinical and healthcare settings to plan for and implement changes within their organization. | ||
Program Assessment Sustainability Tool (PSAT) | The PSAT measures the sustainability of evidence-based practices in community settings. Users receive a tailored report that can be used by public health and community organizations to plan for and implement changes within their organization. |