Table 1 Examples of how non-implementation science projects can provide opportunities for contributions to the field
From: Making implementation science more efficient: capitalizing on opportunities beyond the field
| Â | Clinical or public health trials | Practice improvement projects (without research or evaluation) | Other applied health studies |
|---|---|---|---|
Implementation strategies | Description of fidelity and adaptation of strategies in practice; assessment of potential impacts; opportunities to conduct SWATs | Provide ideas on or identify potential knowledge gaps for implementation strategies on the basis of real-world experiences | Description and analysis of observed strategies |
Implementation processes and associated factors | Analytical, theory-guided exploration in process evaluation and related research; opportunity to generate theoretically informative research and mechanism-based explanations that can advance conceptual knowledge of the field | Provide ideas on processes and factors on the basis of real-world experiences | Description and exploration of processes and factors; opportunity to generate theoretically informative research and mechanism-based explanations that can advance conceptual knowledge of the field |
Validation of measures | Embedded validation studies | - | Embedded validation research |