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  1. United States trauma system guidelines specify when to triage patients to specialty centers. Nonetheless, many eligible patients are not transferred as per guidelines. One possible reason is emergency physicia...

    Authors: Deepika Mohan, Matthew R Rosengart, Coreen Farris, Baruch Fischhoff, Derek C Angus and Amber E Barnato
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:103
  2. Governments and other payers are yet to determine optimal processes by which to review the safety, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of technologies and procedures that are in active use within health syst...

    Authors: Amber M Watt, Janet E Hiller, Annette J Braunack-Mayer, John R Moss, Heather Buchan, Janet Wale, Dagmara E Riitano, Katherine Hodgetts, Jackie M Street and Adam G Elshaug
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:101
  3. It is widely agreed that interventions to change professionals’ practice need to be clearly specified. This involves (1) selecting and defining the intervention techniques, (2) operationalising the techniques ...

    Authors: Niina Kolehmainen and Jill J Francis
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:100
  4. In the field of implementation research, there is an increased interest in use of theory when designing implementation research studies involving behavior change. In 2003, we initiated a series of five studies...

    Authors: Martin P Eccles, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Graeme MacLennan, Debbie Bonetti, Liz Glidewell, Nigel B Pitts, Nick Steen, Ruth Thomas, Anne Walker and Marie Johnston
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:99
  5. A guideline contains processes and procedures intended to guide health service delivery. However, the presence of guidelines may not guarantee their implementation, which may be a result of weaknesses in the d...

    Authors: Juliet Nabyonga Orem, Juliet Bataringaya Wavamunno, Solome K Bakeera and Bart Criel
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:98
  6. All investigators seeking funding to conduct implementation research face the challenges of preparing a high-quality proposal and demonstrating their capacity to conduct the proposed study. Applicants need to ...

    Authors: Enola K Proctor, Byron J Powell, Ana A Baumann, Ashley M Hamilton and Ryan L Santens
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:96
  7. The simulated client (SC) method for evaluating health worker performance utilizes surveyors who pose as patients to make surreptitious observations during consultations. Compared to conspicuous observation (C...

    Authors: Alexander K Rowe, Faustin Onikpo, Marcel Lama and Michael S Deming
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:95
  8. Cardiovascular risk management is largely provided in primary healthcare, but not all patients with established cardiovascular diseases receive preventive treatment as recommended. Accreditation of healthcare ...

    Authors: Elvira Nouwens, Jan Van Lieshout, Eddy Adang, Margriet Bouma, Jozé Braspenning and Michel Wensing
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:94
  9. Evidence of variations in red blood cell transfusion practices have been reported in a wide range of clinical settings. Parallel studies in Canada and the United Kingdom were designed to explore transfusion be...

    Authors: Rafat Islam, Alan T Tinmouth, Jill J Francis, Jamie C Brehaut, Jennifer Born, Charlotte Stockton, Simon J Stanworth, Martin P Eccles, Brian H Cuthbertson, Chris Hyde and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:93
  10. Many strategies have been designed and evaluated to address the problem of low hand hygiene (HH) compliance. Which of these strategies are most effective and how they work is still unclear. Here we describe fr...

    Authors: Anita Huis, Theo van Achterberg, Marijn de Bruin, Richard Grol, Lisette Schoonhoven and Marlies Hulscher
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:92
  11. More than a third of people over the age of 65 years fall each year. Falling can lead to a reduction in quality of life, mortality, and a risk of prolonged hospitalisation. Reducing and preventing falls has be...

    Authors: Sue Child, Victoria Goodwin, Ruth Garside, Tracey Jones-Hughes, Kate Boddy and Ken Stein
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:91
  12. Engaging end-users of research in the process of disseminating findings may increase the relevance of findings and their impact for users. We report findings from a case study that explored how involvement wit...

    Authors: Lisa A Cranley, Judy M Birdsell, Peter G Norton, Debra G Morgan and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:90
  13. This project occurred during the course of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research. TREC is a multilevel and longitudinal research program being conducted in the three Canadian Prairi...

    Authors: Alison M Hutchinson, Neha Batra-Garga, Lisa Cranley, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Greta Cummings, Peter Norton and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:89
  14. This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Province...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Boström, Lisa A Cranley, Alison M Hutchinson, Greta G Cummings, Peter G Norton and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:88
  15. This report is an introduction to a series of three research papers that describe the evolution of the approaches taken by the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research team during its first four year...

    Authors: Carole A Estabrooks, Gary F Teare and Peter G Norton
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:87
  16. Prescribing errors are a major source of morbidity and mortality and represent a significant patient safety concern. Evidence suggests that trainee doctors are responsible for most prescribing errors. Understa...

    Authors: Eilidh M Duncan, Jill J Francis, Marie Johnston, Peter Davey, Simon Maxwell, Gerard A McKay, James McLay, Sarah Ross, Cristín Ryan, David J Webb and Christine Bond
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:86
  17. Currently, 1 out of 88 children are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the estimated cost for treatment services is $126 billion annually. Typically, ASD community providers (ASD-CPs) provid...

    Authors: Amy Drahota, Gregory A Aarons and Aubyn C Stahmer
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:85
  18. Clinical governance (CG) is among the different frameworks proposed to improve the quality of healthcare. Iran, like many other countries, has put healthcare quality improvement in its top health policy priori...

    Authors: Ali Heyrani, Mohammadreza Maleki, Ahmad Barati Marnani, Hamid Ravaghi, Mojtaba Sedaghat, Mosadegh Jabbari, Davood Farsi, Abdoljavad Khajavi and Zhaleh Abdi
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:84
  19. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a leading cause of disability, hospitalization, and premature mortality. General practice is well placed to diagnose and manage COPD, but there is a significant ...

    Authors: Jeremy M Bunker, Helen K Reddel, Sarah M Dennis, Sandy Middleton, CP Van Schayck, Alan J Crockett, Iqbal Hasan, Oshana Hermiz, Sanjyot Vagholkar, Guy B Marks and Nicholas A Zwar
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:83
  20. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) was developed to investigate determinants of specific clinical behaviors and inform the design of interventions to change professional behavior. This framework was used ...

    Authors: André E Bussières, Andrea M Patey, Jill J Francis, Anne E Sales and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:82
  21. Implementation Science, like all journals, needs to continue to develop. There will always be changes we need to make as next steps in improving the Journal for readers and improving how it runs. However, we n...

    Authors: Martin P Eccles
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:81
  22. Implementation research is concerned with bridging the gap between evidence and practice through the study of methods to promote the uptake of research into routine practice. Good quality evidence has been sum...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Kate Seers, Nicola Crichton, Jackie Chandler, Claire A Hawkes, Claire Allen, Ian Bullock and Leo Strunin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:80
  23. Antithrombotic treatment is a continuous therapy that is often performed in general practice and requires careful safety management. The aim of this study is to investigate whether a best-practice model that a...

    Authors: Andrea Siebenhofer, Lisa R Ulrich, Karola Mergenthal, Ina Roehl, Sandra Rauck, Andrea Berghold, Sebastian Harder, Ferdinand M Gerlach and Juliana J Petersen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:79
  24. Preventable adverse events from hospital care are a common patient safety problem, often resulting in medical complications and additional costs. In 2008, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implem...

    Authors: Heidi Wald, Angela Richard, Victoria Vaughan Dickson and Elizabeth Capezuti
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:78
  25. Careful hand hygiene (HH) is the single most important factor in preventing the transmission of infections to patients, but compliance is difficult to achieve and maintain. A lack of understanding of the proce...

    Authors: Veronique M Boscart, Geoff R Fernie, Jae H Lee and Susan B Jaglal
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:77
  26. Access and equity in children’s therapy services may be improved by directing clinicians’ use of resources toward specific goals that are important to patients. A practice-change intervention (titled ‘Good Goa...

    Authors: Niina Kolehmainen, Graeme MacLennan, Laura Ternent, Edward AS Duncan, Eilidh M Duncan, Stephen B Ryan, Lorna McKee and Jill J Francis
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:76
  27. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a safe and effective method of caring for low birth weight infants and is promoted for its potential to improve newborn survival. Many countries find it difficult to take KMC to s...

    Authors: Anne-Marie Bergh, Rhoda Manu, Karen Davy, Elise van Rooyen, Gloria Quansah Asare, J Koku Awoonor Williams, McDamien Dedzo, Akwasi Twumasi and Alexis Nang-beifubah
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:75
  28. The Neurotrauma Evidence Translation (NET) program was funded in 2009 to increase the uptake of research evidence in the clinical care of patients who have sustained traumatic brain injury. This paper reports ...

    Authors: Sally E Green, Marije Bosch, Joanne E McKenzie, Denise A O’Connor, Emma J Tavender, Peter Bragge, Marisa Chau, Veronica Pitt, Jeffrey V Rosenfeld and Russell L Gruen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:74
  29. The relationship between infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer is transforming cervical cancer prevention. HPV tests and vaccinations have recently become available. In Irelan...

    Authors: Lisa A McSherry, Stephan U Dombrowski, Jill J Francis, Judith Murphy, Cara M Martin, John J O’Leary and Linda Sharp
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:73
  30. This project engages patients and physicians in the development of Decision Boxes, short clinical topic summaries covering medical questions that have no single best answer. Decision Boxes aim to prepare the c...

    Authors: Anik Giguere, France Légaré, Roland Grad, Pierre Pluye, R Brian Haynes, Michel Cauchon, François Rousseau, Juliana Alvarez Argote and Michel Labrecque
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:72
  31. Implementation Science has been published for six years and over that time has gone from receiving 100 articles in 2006 to receiving 354 in 2011; our impact factor has risen from 2.49 in June 2010 to 3.10 in Jun...

    Authors: Martin P Eccles, Robbie Foy, Anne Sales, Michel Wensing and Brian Mittman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:71
  32. Knowledge translation (KT) aims to close the research-practice gap in order to realize and maximize the benefits of research within the practice setting. Previous studies have investigated KT strategies in nur...

    Authors: Shannon D Scott, Lauren Albrecht, Kathy O’Leary, Geoff DC Ball, Lisa Hartling, Anne Hofmeyer, C Allyson Jones, Terry P Klassen, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Amanda S Newton, David Thompson and Donna M Dryden
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:70
  33. The scientific process around cancer research begins with scientific discovery, followed by development of interventions, and finally delivery of needed interventions to people with cancer. Numerous studies ha...

    Authors: Jenine K Harris, Keith G Provan, Kimberly J Johnson and Scott J Leischow
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:69
  34. Guidelines are important tools that inform healthcare delivery based on best available research evidence. Guideline use is in part based on quality of the guidelines, which includes advice for implementation a...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi and Melissa C Brouwers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:67
  35. Task-shifting is promoted widely as a mechanism for expanding antiretroviral treatment (ART) access. However, the evidence for nurse-initiated and managed ART (NIMART) in Africa is limited, and little is known...

    Authors: Daniella Georgeu, Christopher J Colvin, Simon Lewin, Lara Fairall, Max O Bachmann, Kerry Uebel, Merrick Zwarenstein, Beverly Draper and Eric D Bateman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:66
  36. There is a great deal of variation in the existing capacity of primary prevention programs and policies addressing chronic disease to deliver evidence-based interventions (EBIs). In order to develop and evalua...

    Authors: Katherine A Stamatakis, Amy McQueen, Carl Filler, Elizabeth Boland, Mariah Dreisinger, Ross C Brownson and Douglas A Luke
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:65
  37. Despite the availability of evidence-based psychotherapies for depression and anxiety, they are underused in non-mental health specialty settings such as primary care. Hybrid effectiveness-implementation desig...

    Authors: Jeffrey A Cully, Maria E A Armento, Juliette Mott, Michael R Nadorff, Aanand D Naik, Melinda A Stanley, Kristen H Sorocco, Mark E Kunik, Nancy J Petersen and Michael R Kauth
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:64
  38. Suboptimal uptake of anticoagulation for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation has persisted for over 20 years, despite high-level evidence demonstrating its effectiveness in reducing the risk of fatal and ...

    Authors: Melina Gattellari, John M Worthington, Dominic Y Leung and Nicholas Zwar
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:63
  39. Clinical practice guidelines are one of the foundations of efforts to improve health care. In 1999, we authored a paper about methods to develop guidelines. Since it was published, the methods of guideline dev...

    Authors: Paul Shekelle, Steven Woolf, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Holger J Schünemann and Martin P Eccles
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:62
  40. Clinical practice guidelines are one of the foundations of efforts to improve healthcare. In 1999, we authored a paper about methods to develop guidelines. Since it was published, the methods of guideline deve...

    Authors: Steven Woolf, Holger J Schünemann, Martin P Eccles, Jeremy M Grimshaw and Paul Shekelle
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:61
  41. Clinical practice guidelines are one of the foundations of efforts to improve health care. In 1999, we authored a paper about methods to develop guidelines. Since it was published, the methods of guideline dev...

    Authors: Martin P Eccles, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Paul Shekelle, Holger J Schünemann and Steven Woolf
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:60
  42. Greenhalgh et al. used a considerable evidence-base to develop a comprehensive model of implementation of innovations in healthcare organizations [1]. However, these authors did not fully operationalize their ...

    Authors: Joan M Cook, Casey O’Donnell, Stephanie Dinnen, James C Coyne, Josef I Ruzek and Paula P Schnurr
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:59
  43. Total hip and knee arthroplasties are two of the most commonly performed procedures in orthopedic surgery. Different blood-saving measures (BSMs) are used to reduce the often-needed allogenic blood transfusion...

    Authors: Veronique MA Voorn, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Cynthia So-Osman, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland, Ankie WMM Koopman-van Gemert, Rob GHH Nelissen and Leti van Bodegom-Vos
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:58
  44. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has defined knowledge translation (KT) as a dynamic and iterative process that includes the synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and ethically-sound application...

    Authors: Robert K D McLean, Ian D Graham, Kwadwo Bosompra, Yumna Choudhry, Stephanie E Coen, Martha MacLeod, Christopher Manuel, Ryan McCarthy, Adrian Mota, David Peckham, Jacqueline M Tetroe and Joanne Tucker
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:57
  45. Evidence-based practices have not been routinely adopted in community mental health organizations despite the support of scientific evidence and in some cases even legislative or regulatory action. We examined...

    Authors: Gregory A Aarons, Charles Glisson, Phillip D Green, Kimberly Hoagwood, Kelly J Kelleher and John A Landsverk
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:56
  46. Sciatica is a common condition worldwide that is characterized by radiating leg pain and regularly caused by a herniated disc with nerve root compression. Sciatica patients with persisting leg pain after six t...

    Authors: Stefanie N Hofstede, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Willem JJ Assendelft, Carmen LA Vleggeert-Lankamp, Anne M Stiggelbout, Patrick CAJ Vroomen, Wilbert B van den Hout, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland and Leti van Bodegom-Vos
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:55
  47. Social cognitive theories on behaviour change are increasingly being used to understand and predict healthcare professionals’ intentions and clinical behaviours. Although these theories offer important insight...

    Authors: Per Nilsen, Kerstin Roback, Anders Broström and Per-Erik Ellström
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:53
  48. Routine pre-operative tests for anesthesia management are often ordered by both anesthesiologists and surgeons for healthy patients undergoing low-risk surgery. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) was deve...

    Authors: Andrea M Patey, Rafat Islam, Jill J Francis, Gregory L Bryson and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:52

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