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  1. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing chronic diseases internationally. The health complications associated with type 2 diabetes can be prevented, delayed, or improved via early diagnosis and effective...

    Authors: Christine L Paul, Leon Piterman, Jonathan Shaw, Catherine Kirby, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Mariko L Carey, Jennifer Robinson, Patrick McElduff and Isaraporn Thepwongsa
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:30
  2. Dissemination and implementation (D&I) research is a relatively young discipline, underscoring the importance of training and career development in building and sustaining the field. As such, D&I research face...

    Authors: Katherine A Stamatakis, Wynne E Norton, Shannon W Stirman, Cathy Melvin and Ross C Brownson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:29
  3. The case has been made for more and better theory-informed process evaluations within trials in an effort to facilitate insightful understandings of how interventions work. In this paper, we provide an explana...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Kate Seers, Jackie Chandler, Claire A Hawkes, Nicola Crichton, Claire Allen, Ian Bullock and Leo Strunin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:28
  4. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is a major health issue worldwide. Primary care plays an important role in cardiovascular risk management (CVRM). Guidelines and quality of care measures to assess C...

    Authors: Sabine Ludt, Stephen M Campbell, Davorina Petek, Justine Rochon, Joachim Szecsenyi, Jan van Lieshout, Michel Wensing and Dominik Ose
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:27
  5. Anxiety and depressive disorders are increasingly recognized as a health care policy priority. Reducing the treatment gap for common mental disorders requires strengthening the quality of primary mental health...

    Authors: Pasquale Roberge, Louise Fournier, Hélène Brouillet, Catherine Hudon, Janie Houle, Martin D Provencher and Jean-Frédéric Lévesque
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:26
  6. The Canadian CT Head Rule was prospectively derived and validated to assist clinicians with diagnostic decision-making regarding the use of computed tomography (CT) in adult patients with minor head injury. A ...

    Authors: Janet A Curran, Jamie Brehaut, Andrea M Patey, Martin Osmond, Ian Stiell and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:25
  7. The implementation of evidence-based infection control practices is essential, yet challenging for healthcare institutions worldwide. Although acknowledged that implementation success varies with contextual fa...

    Authors: Hugo Sax, Lauren Clack, Sylvie Touveneau, Fabricio da Liberdade Jantarada, Didier Pittet and Walter Zingg
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:24
  8. Frequently, social interventions produce less for the intended beneficiaries than was initially planned. One possible reason is that ideas embodied in interventions are not self-executing and require careful a...

    Authors: Christa Oosthuizen and Johann Louw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:23
  9. Two of the current methodological barriers to implementation science efforts are the lack of agreement regarding constructs hypothesized to affect implementation success and identifiable measures of these cons...

    Authors: Stephenie R Chaudoir, Alicia G Dugan and Colin HI Barr
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:22
  10. Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. The expected downstream beneficial socio-economic impa...

    Authors: Jennifer L Flagg, Joseph P Lane and Michelle M Lockett
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:21
  11. Measuring team factors in evaluations of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) may provide important information for enhancing CQI processes and outcomes; however, the large number of potentially relevant facto...

    Authors: Sue E Brennan, Marije Bosch, Heather Buchan and Sally E Green
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:20
  12. The integration of behavioral health services into primary care is increasingly popular, yet fidelity of implementation in this area has been infrequently assessed due to the few measurement tools available. A...

    Authors: Gregory P Beehler, Jennifer S Funderburk, Kyle Possemato and Christina L Vair
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:19
  13. Understanding and evaluating the implementation of complex interventions in practice is an important problem for healthcare managers and policy makers, and for patients and others who must operationalize them ...

    Authors: Carl May
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:18
  14. Although an evidence-based approach is the ideal model for planning and delivering healthcare, barriers exist to using research evidence to implement and evaluate service change. This paper aims to inform poli...

    Authors: Bridie Angela Evans, Helen Snooks, Helen Howson and Myfanwy Davies
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:17
  15. Healthcare-associated infections affect 10% of patients in Canadian acute-care hospitals and are significant and preventable causes of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. Hand hygiene is among...

    Authors: Janet E Squires, Kathryn N Suh, Stefanie Linklater, Natalie Bruce, Kathleen Gartke, Ian D Graham, Alan Karovitch, Joanne Read, Virginia Roth, Karen Stockton, Emma Tibbo, Kent Woodhall, Jim Worthington and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:16
  16. Public health programs can only deliver benefits if they are able to sustain activities over time. There is a broad literature on program sustainability in public health, but it is fragmented and there is a la...

    Authors: Sarah F Schell, Douglas A Luke, Michael W Schooley, Michael B Elliott, Stephanie H Herbers, Nancy B Mueller and Alicia C Bunger
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:15
  17. Healthcare systems are challenged by a demand that exceeds available resources. One policy to meet this challenge is task substitution-transferring tasks to other professions and settings. Our study aimed to e...

    Authors: Kim M Holtzer-Goor, Thomas Plochg, Hans G Lemij, Esther van Sprundel, Marc A Koopmanschap and Niek S Klazinga
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:14
  18. More than a hundred terms, often with unclear definitions and varying emphases, are used by health research and practice communities across the world who are interested in getting the best possible evidence ap...

    Authors: Kathleen Ann McKibbon, Cynthia Lokker, Arun Keepanasseril, Heather Colquhoun, Robert Brian Haynes and Nancy L Wilczynski
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:13
  19. The science of dissemination and implementation (D&I) is advancing the knowledge base for how best to integrate evidence-based interventions within clinical and community settings and how to recast the nature ...

    Authors: Helen I Meissner, Russell E Glasgow, Cynthia A Vinson, David Chambers, Ross C Brownson, Lawrence W Green, Alice S Ammerman, Bryan J Weiner and Brian Mittman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:12
  20. The European level of alcohol consumption, and the subsequent burden of disease, is high compared to the rest of the world. While screening and brief interventions in primary healthcare are cost-effective, in ...

    Authors: Myrna N Keurhorst, Peter Anderson, Fredrik Spak, Preben Bendtsen, Lidia Segura, Joan Colom, Jillian Reynolds, Colin Drummond, Paolo Deluca, Ben van Steenkiste, Artur Mierzecki, Karolina Kłoda, Paul Wallace, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Eileen Kaner, Toni Gual…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:11
  21. Fractures associated with bone fragility in older adults signal the potential for secondary fracture. Fragility fractures often precipitate further decline in health and loss of mobility, with high associated ...

    Authors: Isabelle Gaboury, Hélène Corriveau, Gilles Boire, François Cabana, Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Pierre Dagenais, Suzanne Gosselin, Earl Bogoch, Marie Rochette, Johanne Filiatrault, Sophie Laforest, Sonia Jean, Alvine Fansi, Diane Theriault and Bernard Burnand
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:10
  22. Implementation effectiveness models have identified important factors that can promote the successful implementation of an innovation; however, these models have been examined within contexts where innovations...

    Authors: Andrea Chambers, Cameron A Mustard, Curtis Breslin, Linn Holness and Kathryn Nichol
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:9
  23. There are significant gaps in the implementation and uptake of evidence-based guideline recommendations for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes in Australian general practice. This study protocol describ...

    Authors: Mark F Harris, Jane Lloyd, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Danielle Mazza, Grant Russell, Jane Smith, Chris Del Mar, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, Sharon Parker, Yordanka Krastev, Upali W Jayasinghe, Richard Taylor, Nick Zwar, Jinty Wilson, Helen Bolger-Harris…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:8
  24. The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the role of knowledge brokers (KBs) in the Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN). The paper reviews the relevant literature on knowledge broke...

    Authors: James Conklin, Elizabeth Lusk, Megan Harris and Paul Stolee
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:7
  25. Healthcare decision makers face challenges when using guidelines, including understanding the quality of the evidence or the values and preferences upon which recommendations are made, which are often not clear.

    Authors: Shaun Treweek, Andrew D Oxman, Philip Alderson, Patrick M Bossuyt, Linn Brandt, Jan Brożek, Marina Davoli, Signe Flottorp, Robin Harbour, Suzanne Hill, Alessandro Liberati, Helena Liira, Holger J Schünemann, Sarah Rosenbaum, Judith Thornton, Per Olav Vandvik…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:6
  26. Significant changes in provision of clinical care within the English National Health Service (NHS) have been discussed in recent years, with proposals to concentrate specialist services in fewer centres. Strok...

    Authors: Naomi Fulop, Ruth Boaden, Rachael Hunter, Christopher McKevitt, Steve Morris, Nanik Pursani, Angus IG Ramsay, Anthony G Rudd, Pippa J Tyrrell and Charles DA Wolfe
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:5
  27. Multisite qualitative studies are challenging in part because decisions regarding within-site and between-site sampling must be made to reduce the complexity of data collection, but these decisions may have se...

    Authors: Justin K Benzer, Sarah Beehler, Irene E Cramer, David C Mohr, Martin P Charns and James F Burgess Jr
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:4
  28. Caesarean section (CS) rates are rising worldwide. In the Netherlands, the most significant rise is observed in healthy women with a singleton in vertex position between 37 and 42 weeks gestation, whereas it i...

    Authors: Sonja Melman, Ellen NC Schoorel, Carmen Dirksen, Anneke Kwee, Luc Smits, Froukje de Boer, Madelaine Jonkers, Mallory D Woiski, Ben Willem J Mol, Johannes PR Doornbos, Harry Visser, Anjoke JM Huisjes, Martina M Porath, Friso MC Delemarre, Simone MI Kuppens, Robert Aardenburg…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:3
  29. Many challenges arise in complex organizational interventions that threaten research integrity. This article describes a T ool for E valuating Research Implementation Ch allenges (TECH), developed using a complex...

    Authors: Kelly M Simpson, Kristie Porter, Eleanor S McConnell, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Kathryn A Daily, Alyson Stalzer and Ruth A Anderson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:2
  30. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common preventable cause of mortality in hospitalized medical patients. Despite rigorous randomized trials generating strong recommendations for anticoagulant use to prevent V...

    Authors: Menaka Pai, Nancy S Lloyd, Ji Cheng, Lehana Thabane, Frederick A Spencer, Deborah J Cook, R Brian Haynes, Holger J Schünemann and James D Douketis
    Citation: Implementation Science 2013 8:1
  31. There is growing awareness of the role of information technology in evidence-based practice. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of organizational context and nurse characteristics in explain...

    Authors: Diane Doran, Brian R Haynes, Carole A Estabrooks, André Kushniruk, Adam Dubrowski, Irmajean Bajnok, Linda McGillis Hall, Mingyang Li, Jennifer Carryer, Dawn Jedras and Yu Qing (Chris) Bai
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:122
  32. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) methods are widely used in healthcare; however, the effectiveness of the methods is variable, and evidence about the extent to which contextual and other factors modify eff...

    Authors: Sue E Brennan, Marije Bosch, Heather Buchan and Sally E Green
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:121
  33. Despite the evidence of benefit, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) remains highly underutilized. The present study examined the effect of two inpatient and one outpatient strategy on CR utilization: allied healthcar...

    Authors: Sherry L Grace, Kelly L Angevaare, Robert D Reid, Paul Oh, Sonia Anand, Milan Gupta, Stephanie Brister and Donna E Stewart
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:120
  34. The field of implementation science (IS) encompasses a broad range of constructs and uses measures from a variety of disciplines. However, there has been little standardization of measures or agreement on defi...

    Authors: Borsika A. Rabin, Peyton Purcell, Sana Naveed, Richard P. Moser, Michelle D. Henton, Enola K. Proctor, Ross C. Brownson and Russell E. Glasgow
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:119
  35. Although significant advances have been made in implementation science, comparatively less attention has been paid to broader scale-up and spread of effective health programs at the regional, national, or inte...

    Authors: Wynne E. Norton, C. Joseph McCannon, Marie W. Schall and Brian S. Mittman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:118
  36. A large proportion of the annual 3.3 million neonatal deaths could be averted if there was a high uptake of basic evidence-based practices. In order to overcome this ‘know-do’ gap, there is an urgent need for ...

    Authors: Anna Bergström, Stefan Peterson, Sarah Namusoko, Peter Waiswa and Lars Wallin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:117
  37. An international randomized clinical trial (RCT) on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as an human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-prevention intervention found that taken on a daily basis, PrEP was safe and effecti...

    Authors: Gabriel R. Galindo, J. J. Garrett-Walker, Patrick Hazelton, Tim Lane, Wayne T. Steward, Stephen F. Morin and Emily A. Arnold
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:116
  38. Optimizing pain care requires ready access and use of best evidence within and across different disciplines and settings. The purpose of this randomized trial is to determine whether a technology-based “push” ...

    Authors: Joy C. MacDermid, Mary Law, Norman Buckley and Robert Brian Haynes
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:115
  39. Internet-based self-management (IBSM) support cost-effectively improves asthma control, asthma related quality of life, number of symptom-free days, and lung function in patients with mild to moderate persiste...

    Authors: Johanna L. van Gaalen, Moira J. Bakker, Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Jiska B. Snoeck-Stroband, Willem J. J. Assendelft, Ad A. Kaptein, Victor van der Meer, Christian Taube, Bart P. Thoonen and Jacob K. Sont
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:113
  40. The implementation of guidelines and training initiatives to support communication in cross-cultural primary care consultations is ad hoc across a range of international settings with negative consequences partic...

    Authors: Anne MacFarlane, Catherine O’Donnell, Frances Mair, Mary O’Reilly-de Brún, Tomas de Brún, Wolfgang Spiegel, Maria van den Muijsenbergh, Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten, Christos Lionis, Nicola Burns, Katja Gravenhorst, Christine Princz, Erik Teunissen, Francine van den Driessen Mareeuw, Aristoula Saridaki, Maria Papadakaki…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:111
  41. Management of cancer treatment-related symptoms is an important safety issue given that symptoms can become life-threatening and often occur when patients are at home. With funding from the Canadian Partnershi...

    Authors: Dawn Stacey, Debra Bakker, Barbara Ballantyne, Kimberly Chapman, Joanne Cumminger, Esther Green, Margaret Harrison, Doris Howell, Craig Kuziemsky, Terry MacKenzie, Brenda Sabo, Myriam Skrutkowski, Ann Syme and Angela Whynot
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:110
  42. Scientific knowledge is in constant change. The flow of new information requires a frequent re-evaluation of the available research results. Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are not exempted from this pheno...

    Authors: Laura Martínez García, Ingrid Arévalo-Rodríguez, Ivan Solà, R Brian Haynes, Per Olav Vandvik and Pablo Alonso-Coello
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:109
  43. In the 21st century, government and industry are supplementing hierarchical, bureaucratic forms of organization with network forms, compatible with principles of devolved governance and decentralization of servic...

    Authors: Frances C Cunningham, Geetha Ranmuthugala, Johanna I Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:108
  44. Strokes are a common cause of adult disability and mortality worldwide. Transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) are associated with a high risk of subsequent stroke, and rapid intervention has the potential to reduc...

    Authors: Annemarei Ranta, Susan Dovey, Mark Weatherall and Dea O’Dea
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:107
  45. Optimizing the dietary intake of older people can prevent nutritional deficiencies and diet-related diseases, thereby improving quality of life. However, there is evidence that the nutritional intake of older ...

    Authors: Claire Bamford, Ben Heaven, Carl May and Paula Moynihan
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:106
  46. Studies of implementation of efficacious human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention interventions are rare, especially in resource-poor settings, but important, because they have the potential to increase t...

    Authors: Thomas L Patterson, Shirley J Semple, Claudia V Chavarin, Doroteo V Mendoza, Lorena E Santos, Mark Chaffin, Lawrence A Palinkas, Steffanie A Strathdee and Gregory A Aarons
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:105
  47. Implementation of lifestyle interventions in patient care is a major challenge. Understanding factors that influence implementation is a first step in programs to enhance uptake of these interventions. A lifes...

    Authors: Irene M van de Glind, Maud M Heinen, Andrea W Evers, Michel Wensing and Theo van Achterberg
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:104
  48. Non-small cell lung cancer, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer are commonly diagnosed cancers in Canada. Patients diagnosed with early-stage non-small cell lung, breast, or colorectal cancer represent potent...

    Authors: Robin Urquhart, Cynthia Kendell, Joan Sargeant, Gordon Buduhan, Paul Johnson, Daniel Rayson, Eva Grunfeld and Geoffrey A Porter
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:102

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