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  1. To reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance, there is a pressing need for worldwide implementation of effective interventions to promote more prudent prescribing of antibiotics for acute LRTI. This study is ...

    Authors: Lucy Yardley, Elaine Douglas, Sibyl Anthierens, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Gilly O’Reilly, Beth Stuart, Adam W. A. Geraghty, Emily Arden-Close, Alike W. van der Velden, Herman Goosens, Theo J. M. Verheij, Chris C. Butler, Nick A. Francis and Paul Little
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:134
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Given the importance of influence networks in the implementation of evidence-based practices and interventions, it is unclear whether such networks continue to operate as sources of information and advice when...

    Authors: Lawrence A. Palinkas, Ian W. Holloway, Eric Rice, C. Hendricks Brown, Thomas W. Valente and Patricia Chamberlain
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:133
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  3. It is difficult to foster research utilization among allied health professionals (AHPs). Tailored, multifaceted knowledge translation (KT) strategies are now recommended but are resource intensive to implement...

    Authors: Lanie Campbell, Iona Novak, Sarah McIntyre and Sarah Lord
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:132
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. A multifaceted implementation (MFI) strategy was used to implement an evidence-based occupational therapy program for people with dementia (COTiD program). This strategy was successful in increasing the number...

    Authors: Carola M. E. Döpp, Maud J. L. Graff, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, Maria W. G. Nijhuis van der Sanden and Myrra J. F. J. Vernooij-Dassen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:131
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  5. Detailed intervention descriptions and robust evaluations that test intervention impact—and explore reasons for impact—are an essential part of progressing implementation science. Time series designs enable th...

    Authors: Andria Hanbury, Katherine Farley, Carl Thompson, Paul M. Wilson, Duncan Chambers and Heather Holmes
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:130
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Adoption, adaptation, scale-up, spread, and sustainability are ill-defined, undertheorised, and little-researched implementation science concepts. An instrumental case study will track the adoption and adaptat...

    Authors: Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish, Sue Pownall, Sabrina Eltringham and Andrew Booth
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:128
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  8. The implementation of evidence-based treatments to deliver high-quality care is essential to meet the healthcare demands of aging populations. However, the sustainable application of recommended practice is di...

    Authors: Cathal Doyle, Cathy Howe, Thomas Woodcock, Rowan Myron, Karen Phekoo, Chris McNicholas, Jessica Saffer and Derek Bell
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:127
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. A plethora of observational evidence exists concerning the impact of management and leadership on workforce, work environment, and care quality. Yet, no randomised controlled trial has been conducted to test t...

    Authors: Yun-Hee Jeon, Judy M. Simpson, Lynn Chenoweth, Michelle Cunich and Hal Kendig
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:126
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  10. Increasing numbers of research studies test interventions for clinicians in addition to or instead of interventions for patients. Although previous studies have enumerated barriers to patient enrolment in clin...

    Authors: Sylvia J. Hysong, Kristen Broussard Smitham, Melissa Knox, Khai-El Johnson, Richard SoRelle and Paul Haidet
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:125
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  11. Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines may improve treatment quality, but the uptake of guideline recommendations is often incomplete and slow. Recently new low back pain guidelines are being launched in ...

    Authors: Allan Riis, Cathrine Elgaard Jensen, Flemming Bro, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Karin Dam Petersen and Martin Bach Jensen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:124
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  12. There is evidence of unsafe care in healthcare systems globally. Interventions to implement recommended practice often have modest and variable effects. Ideally, selecting and adapting interventions according ...

    Authors: Natalie Taylor, Rebecca Lawton, Beverley Slater and Robbie Foy
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:123
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  13. Leadership behaviour in complex networks is under-researched, and little has been written concerning leadership of translational research networks (TRNs) that take discoveries made ‘at the bench’ and translate...

    Authors: Janet C. Long, Frances C. Cunningham, Janice Wiley, Peter Carswell and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:122
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. Knowledge translation strategies are an approach to increase the use of evidence within policy and practice decision-making contexts. In clinical and health service contexts, knowledge translation strategies h...

    Authors: Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters, Maureen Dobbins, Laurie Anderson, Laurence Moore, Mark Petticrew, Rachel Clark, Tahna L. Pettman, Catherine Burns, Marjorie Moodie, Rebecca Conning and Boyd Swinburn
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:121
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  15. Treatment of psychotic disorders consists primarily of second generation antipsychotics, which are associated with metabolic side effects such as overweight/obesity, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Evidence-based ...

    Authors: Richard R Owen, Karen L Drummond, Kristen M Viverito, Kathy Marchant, Sandra K Pope, Jeffrey L Smith and Reid D Landes
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:120
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  16. Variation in effectiveness of continuous quality improvement (CQI) interventions between services is commonly reported, but with little explanation of how contextual and other factors may interact to produce t...

    Authors: Gill Schierhout, Jennifer Hains, Damin Si, Catherine Kennedy, Rhonda Cox, Ru Kwedza, Lynette O’Donoghue, Marea Fittock, Jenny Brands, Katherine Lonergan, Michelle Dowden and Ross Bailie
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:119
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Patients in control of their own haemodialysis report better outcomes than those receiving professional controlled care in a hospital setting, even though home and hospital haemodialysis are largely equivalent...

    Authors: Liz Glidewell, Stephen Boocock, Kelvin Pine, Rebecca Campbell, Julia Hackett, Shamila Gill and Martin Wilkie
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:118
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  20. Multiple guidelines are often available to inform practice in complex interventions. Guidance implementation may be facilitated if it is tailored to particular clinical issues and contexts. It should also aim ...

    Authors: Leon Poltawski, Charles Abraham, Anne Forster, Victoria A Goodwin, Cherry Kilbride, Rod S Taylor and Sarah Dean
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:115
    Content type: Research Published on:

  21. In Africa, inadequate health services contribute to the lack of progress on malaria control. Evidence of the impact of interventions to improve health services on population-level malaria indicators is needed....

    Authors: Sarah G Staedke, Clare IR Chandler, Deborah DiLiberto, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Florence Nankya, Emily Webb, Grant Dorsey and Moses R Kamya
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:114
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. Despite significant investments into health improvement programmes in Uganda, health indicators and access to healthcare remain poor across the country. The PRIME trial aims to evaluate the impact of a complex...

    Authors: Clare IR Chandler, Deborah DiLiberto, Susan Nayiga, Lilian Taaka, Christine Nabirye, Miriam Kayendeke, Eleanor Hutchinson, James Kizito, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Moses R Kamya and Sarah G Staedke
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:113
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  23. Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) is regarded as core competence to improve healthcare quality. In the current study, we investigated the EBP of six groups of professionals: physicians, nurses, p...

    Authors: Yi-Hao Weng, Ken N Kuo, Chun-Yuh Yang, Heng-Lien Lo, Chiehfeng Chen and Ya-Wen Chiu
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:112
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. A theoretical approach to assessing the barriers and levers to evidence-based practice (EBP) with subsequent tailoring of theoretically informed strategies to address these may go some way to positively influe...

    Authors: Judith Dyson, Rebecca Lawton, Cath Jackson and Francine Cheater
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:111
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Mental-physical multi-morbidities pose challenges for primary care services that traditionally focus on single diseases. Collaborative care models encourage inter-professional working to deliver better care fo...

    Authors: Sarah E Knowles, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Nia Coupe, Isabel Adeyemi, Chris Keyworth, Harish Thampy and Peter A Coventry
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:110
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. In 2007, Alberta became the first Canadian jurisdiction to grant pharmacists a wide range of prescribing privileges. Our objective was to understand what factors influence pharmacists’ adoption of prescribing ...

    Authors: Mark J Makowsky, Lisa M Guirguis, Christine A Hughes, Cheryl A Sadowski and Nese Yuksel
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:109
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. One of the challenges to implementing clinical practice guidelines is the need to adapt guidelines to the local context and identify barriers to their uptake. Several models of framework are available to consi...

    Authors: Sharon E Straus, Julia E Moore, Sami Uka, Christine Marquez and A Metin Gülmezoglu
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:108
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Change agency in its various forms is one intervention aimed at improving the effectiveness of the uptake of evidence. Facilitators, knowledge brokers and opinion leaders are examples of change agency strategies...

    Authors: Brendan McCormack, Joanne Rycroft-Malone, Kara DeCorby, Alison M Hutchinson, Tracey Bucknall, Bridie Kent, Alyce Schultz, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Cheyl Stetler, Marita Titler, Lars Wallin and Valerie Wilson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:107
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Hypertension is prevalent and often sub-optimally controlled; however, interventions to improve blood pressure control have had limited success.

    Authors: Ryan J Shaw, Miriam A Kaufman, Hayden B Bosworth, Bryan J Weiner, Leah L Zullig, Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee, Jeffrey D Kravetz, Susan M Rakley, Christianne L Roumie, Michael E Bowen, Pamela S Del Monte, Eugene Z Oddone and George L Jackson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:106
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) provides two years of training in mental health implementation science for 10 new fellows each year. The IRI is supported by a National Institute of Mental Health (N...

    Authors: Enola K Proctor, John Landsverk, Ana A Baumann, Brian S Mittman, Gregory A Aarons, Ross C Brownson, Charles Glisson and David Chambers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:105
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  32. Translating knowledge from research into clinical practice has emerged as a practice of increasing importance. This has led to the creation of new organizational entities designed to bridge knowledge between r...

    Authors: Eivor Oborn, Michael Barrett, Karl Prince and Girts Racko
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:104
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Implementing shared decision making into routine practice is proving difficult, despite considerable interest from policy-makers, and is far more complex than merely making decision support interventions avail...

    Authors: Amy Lloyd, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Adrian Edwards, Andrew Rix and Glyn Elwyn
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:102
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. There has been significant investment in developing guidelines to improve clinical and public health practice. Though much is known about the processes of evidence synthesis and evidence-based guidelines imple...

    Authors: Lou Atkins, Jonathan A Smith, Michael P Kelly and Susan Michie
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:101
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. Determining the effectiveness of social and psychological interventions is important for improving individual and population health. Such interventions are complex and, where possible, are best evaluated by ra...

    Authors: Paul Montgomery, Sean Grant, Sally Hopewell, Geraldine Macdonald, David Moher, Susan Michie and Evan Mayo-Wilson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:99
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  37. Population health research can generate significant outcomes for communities, while Knowledge Translation (KT) aims to expressly maximize the outcomes of knowledge producing activity. Yet the two approaches ar...

    Authors: Kathryn Powell, Alison Kitson, Elizabeth Hoon, Jonathan Newbury, Anne Wilson and Justin Beilby
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:98
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  38. Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling (PITC) increases HIV testing rates in most settings, but its effect on testing rates varies considerably. This paper reports the findings of a process evaluation ...

    Authors: Natalie Leon, Simon Lewin and Catherine Mathews
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:97
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Medical Research Council (MRC) guidance identifies implementation as a key element of the development and evaluation process for complex healthcare interventions. Implementation is itself a complex process inv...

    Authors: David James Clarke, Mary Godfrey, Rebecca Hawkins, Euan Sadler, Geoffrey Harding, Anne Forster, Christopher McKevitt, Josie Dickerson and Amanda Farrin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:96
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. The Dutch multidisciplinary sciatica guideline recommends that the team of professionals involved in sciatica care and the patient together decide on surgical or prolonged conservative treatment (shared decisi...

    Authors: Stefanie N Hofstede, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Manon M Wentink, Anne M Stiggelbout, Carmen LA Vleggeert-Lankamp, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland and Leti van Bodegom-Vos
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:95
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) become quickly outdated and require a periodic reassessment of evidence research to maintain their validity. However, there is little research about this topic. Our project ...

    Authors: Laura Martínez García, Andrea Juliana Sanabria, Ignacio Araya, Jennifer Lawson, R Brian Haynes, David Rigau, Ivan Solà, Petra Díaz del Campo, Maria Dolors Estrada, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Elvira García Álvarez, Javier Gracia, Anna Kotzeva, Arturo Louro-González, Flavia Salcedo-Fernandez, Maria Mar Trujillo-Martín…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:94
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  42. Practice facilitation (PF) is an implementation strategy now commonly used in primary care settings for improvement initiatives. PF occurs when a trained external facilitator engages and supports the practice ...

    Authors: Michael L Parchman, Polly H Noel, Steven D Culler, Holly J Lanham, Luci K Leykum, Raquel L Romero and Raymond F Palmer
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:93
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Improving quality in children’s mental health and social service settings will require implementation strategies capable of moving effective treatments and other innovations (e.g., assessment tools) into routine ...

    Authors: Byron J Powell, Enola K Proctor, Charles A Glisson, Patricia L Kohl, Ramesh Raghavan, Ross C Brownson, Bradley P Stoner, Christopher R Carpenter and Lawrence A Palinkas
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:92
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. Dementia is a common and complex condition. Evidence-based guidelines for the management of people with dementia in general practice exist; however, detection, diagnosis and disclosure of dementia have been id...

    Authors: Joanne E McKenzie, Simon D French, Denise A O’Connor, Duncan S Mortimer, Colette J Browning, Grant M Russell, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles, Jill J Francis, Susan Michie, Kerry Murphy, Fiona Kossenas and Sally E Green
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:91
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Evidence-based treatments for child mental health problems are not consistently available in public mental health settings. Expanding availability requires workforce training. However, research has demonstrate...

    Authors: Shannon Dorsey, Michael D Pullmann, Esther Deblinger, Lucy Berliner, Suzanne E Kerns, Kelly Thompson, Jürgen Unützer, John R Weisz and Ann F Garland
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:89
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) are steadily increasing in prevalence in the United States. While there is reasonable evidence that specific activities can be implemented by pri...

    Authors: Chester H Fox, Bonnie M Vest, Linda S Kahn, L Miriam Dickinson, Hai Fang, Wilson Pace, Kim Kimminau, Joseph Vassalotti, Natalia Loskutova and Kevin Peterson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:88
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Studies have shown that communities have not always been able to implement evidence-based prevention programs with quality and achieve outcomes demonstrated by prevention science. Implementation support interv...

    Authors: Joie Acosta, Matthew Chinman, Patricia Ebener, Patrick S Malone, Susan Paddock, Andrea Phillips, Peter Scales and Mary Ellen Slaughter
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:87
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality and are less likely than whites to have been screened for colorectal cancer (CRC). Many interventions have been shown to increase CRC screening in res...

    Authors: Selina A Smith and Daniel S Blumenthal
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:86
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  50. People with a mental illness experience substantial disparities in health, including increased rates of morbidity and mortality caused by potentially preventable chronic diseases. One contributing factor to su...

    Authors: Kate Bartlem, Jennifer Bowman, Megan Freund, Paula Wye, Kathleen McElwaine, Jenny Knight, Patrick McElduff, Karen Gillham and John Wiggers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:85
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:
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