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Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:53
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Adaptability, Scalability and Sustainability (ASaS) of complex health interventions: a systematic review of theories, models and frameworks
Complex health interventions (CHIs) are increasingly used in public health, clinical research and education to reduce the burden of disease worldwide. Numerous theories, models and frameworks (TMFs) have been ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:52 -
De-implementation strategy to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for ambulatory HIV-infected patients with upper respiratory tract infections in Mozambique: a study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial
Antibiotics are globally overprescribed for the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections (URTI), especially in persons living with HIV. However, most URTIs are caused by viruses, and antibiotics are not...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:51 -
Establishing evidence criteria for implementation strategies in the US: a Delphi study for HIV services
There are no criteria specifically for evaluating the quality of implementation research and recommending implementation strategies likely to have impact to practitioners. We describe the development and appli...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:50 -
Teamwork and implementation of innovations in healthcare and human service settings: a systematic review
Implementation of new practices in team-based settings requires teams to work together to respond to new demands and changing expectations. However, team constructs and team-based implementation approaches hav...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:49 -
How is tailored implementation undertaken using a self-guided toolkit? Qualitative study of the ItFits-toolkit in the ImpleMentAll project
The process of tailored implementation is ill-defined and under-explored. The ItFits-toolkit was developed and subsequently tested as a self-guided online platform to facilitate implementation of tailored stra...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:48 -
Predictors of the sustainability for an evidence-based eating disorder prevention program delivered by college peer educators
Despite ongoing efforts to introduce evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into mental health care settings, little research has focused on the sustainability of EBIs in these settings. College campuses are a na...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:47 -
Closing the gap: advancing implementation science through training and capacity building
In their article on “Navigating the Field of Implementation Science Towards Maturity: Challenges and Opportunities,” Chambers and Emmons describe the rapid growth of implementation science along with remaining...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:46 -
Re-Purposing the Ordering of Routine Laboratory Tests in Hospitalized Medical Patients (RePORT): protocol for a multicenter stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial to evaluate the impact of a multicomponent intervention bundle to reduce laboratory test over-utilization
Laboratory test overuse in hospitals is a form of healthcare waste that also harms patients. Developing and evaluating interventions to reduce this form of healthcare waste is critical. We detail the protocol ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:45 -
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19(Suppl 2):42 -
Mapping implementation strategies to reach community-dwelling older adults in Northwest Switzerland
In Northwestern Switzerland, recent legislation tackles the needs of community-dwelling older adults by creating Information and Advice Centers (IACs). IACs are a new service in the community that aims to asse...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:44 -
A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-2022
Studies of implementation strategies range in rigor, design, and evaluated outcomes, presenting interpretation challenges for practitioners and researchers. This systematic review aimed to describe the body of...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:43 -
Integrated Measure of PRogram Element SuStainability in Childcare Settings (IMPRESS-C): development and psychometric evaluation of a measure of sustainability determinants in the early childhood education and care setting
There is a need for valid and reliable measures of determinants of sustainability of public health interventions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. This study aimed to develop and evaluate ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:41 -
Scaling up a brief alcohol intervention to prevent HIV infection in Vietnam: a cluster randomized, implementation trial
Evidence-based interventions (EBIs) often address normative behaviors. If a behavior is also common among clinicians, they may be skeptical about the necessity or effectiveness of an EBI. Alternatively, clinic...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:40 -
A data-driven approach to implementing the HPTN 094 complex intervention INTEGRA in local communities
HIV burden in the US among people who inject drugs (PWID) is driven by overlapping syndemic factors such as co-occurring health needs and environmental factors that synergize to produce worse health outcomes a...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:39 -
Implementation science in humanitarian assistance: applying a novel approach for humanitarian care optimization
Humanitarian assistance is hindered by a lack of strategies to optimize care delivery through research and organized networks. Distinct from global health, humanitarian assistance struggles to address its mult...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:38 -
Exploring the content and delivery of feedback facilitation co-interventions: a systematic review
Policymakers and researchers recommend supporting the capabilities of feedback recipients to increase the quality of care. There are different ways to support capabilities. We aimed to describe the content and...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:37 -
Inter-organizational alignment and implementation outcomes in integrated mental healthcare for children and adolescents: a cross-sectional observational study
Integrated care involves care provided by a team of professionals, often in non-traditional settings. A common example worldwide is integrated school-based mental health (SBMH), which involves externally emplo...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:36 -
The effect of audit and feedback and implementation support on guideline adherence and patient outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation: a study protocol for an open-label cluster-randomized effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial
Providing secondary prevention through structured and comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programmes to patients after a myocardial infarction (MI) reduces mortality and morbidity and improves health-related...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:35 -
Understanding pathways from implementation to sustainment: a longitudinal, mixed methods analysis of promising practices implemented in the Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the United States largest learning health system. The Diffusion of Excellence (DoE) program is a large-scale model of diffusion that identifies and diffuses evidence...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:34 -
How can a behavioral economics lens contribute to implementation science?
Implementation science in health is an interdisciplinary field with an emphasis on supporting behavior change required when clinicians and other actors implement evidence-based practices within organizational ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:33 -
How does the external context affect an implementation processes? A qualitative study investigating the impact of macro-level variables on the implementation of goal-oriented primary care
Although the importance of context in implementation science is not disputed, knowledge about the actual impact of external context variables on implementation processes remains rather fragmented. Current fram...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:32 -
A modified action framework to develop and evaluate academic-policy engagement interventions
There has been a proliferation of frameworks with a common goal of bridging the gap between evidence, policy, and practice, but few aim to specifically guide evaluations of academic-policy engagement. We prese...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:31 -
Family cascade screening for equitable identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type III randomized controlled trial
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a heritable disorder affecting 1.3 million individuals in the USA. Eighty percent of people with FH are undiagnosed, particularly minoritized populations including Black o...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:30 -
Improving measurement-based care implementation in youth mental health through organizational leadership and climate: a mechanistic analysis within a randomized trial
Theory and correlational research indicate organizational leadership and climate are important for successful implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in healthcare settings; however, experimental evi...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:29 -
Proceedings of the 6th UK and Ireland implementation science research conference
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19(Suppl 1):21 -
Correction: Assessing the impact of public funding in alleviating participant reduction and improving the retention rate in methadone maintenance treatment clinics in Taiwan: an interrupted time series analysis
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:28 -
Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governance
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has emerged as a transformative tool in healthcare, with the potential to revolutionize clinical decision-making and improve health outcomes. Generativ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:27 -
Navigating the field of implementation science towards maturity: challenges and opportunities
The field of implementation science has significantly expanded in size and scope over the past two decades, although work related to understanding implementation processes have of course long preceded the more...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:26 -
Comparative effectiveness of implementation strategies for Accelerating Cervical Cancer Elimination through the integration of Screen-and-treat Services (ACCESS study): protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid type III trial in Nigeria
Despite the increased risk of cervical cancer (CC) among women living with HIV (WLHIV), CC screening and treatment (CCST) rates remain low in Africa. The integration of CCST services into established HIV progr...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:25 -
Evidence-based Medication knowledge Brokers in Residential Aged CarE (EMBRACE): protocol for a helix-counterbalanced randomised controlled trial
Clinical practice guidelines recommend against the routine use of psychotropic medications in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Knowledge brokers are individuals or groups who facilitate the transfer o...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:24 -
Protocol for a parallel cluster randomized trial of a participatory tailored approach to reduce overuse of antibiotics at hospital discharge: the ROAD home trial
Antibiotic overuse at hospital discharge is common, costly, and harmful. While discharge-specific antibiotic stewardship interventions are effective, they are resource-intensive and often infeasible for hospit...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:23 -
Organize and mobilize for implementation effectiveness to improve overdose education and naloxone distribution from syringe services programs: a randomized controlled trial
The United States (US) continues to face decades-long increases in opioid overdose fatalities. As an opioid overdose reversal medication, naloxone can dramatically reduce opioid overdose mortality rates when d...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:22 -
Implementation strategies in suicide prevention: a scoping review
Implementation strategies can be a vital leveraging point for enhancing the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based suicide prevention interventions and programming. However, much remains unknown ab...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:20 -
Protocol for the ONLOOP trial: pragmatic randomized trial evaluating a province-wide system of personalized reminders for evidence-based surveillance tests in adult survivors of childhood cancer in Ontario
Childhood cancer treatment while often curative, leads to elevated risks of morbidity and mortality. Survivors require lifelong periodic surveillance for late effects of treatment, yet adherence to guideline-r...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:19 -
Assessing the impact of public funding in alleviating participant reduction and improving the retention rate in methadone maintenance treatment clinics in Taiwan: an interrupted time series analysis
Given the steady decline in patient numbers at methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinics in Taiwan since 2013, the government initiated Patients’ Medical Expenditure Supplements (PMES) in January 2019 and...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:18 -
Leveraging artificial intelligence to advance implementation science: potential opportunities and cautions
The field of implementation science was developed to address the significant time delay between establishing an evidence-based practice and its widespread use. Although implementation science has contributed m...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:17 -
Sustaining the collaborative chronic care model in outpatient mental health: a matrixed multiple case study
Sustaining evidence-based practices (EBPs) is crucial to ensuring care quality and addressing health disparities. Approaches to identifying factors related to sustainability are critically needed. One such app...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:16 -
‘It depends’: what 86 systematic reviews tell us about what strategies to use to support the use of research in clinical practice
The gap between research findings and clinical practice is well documented and a range of strategies have been developed to support the implementation of research into clinical practice. The objective of this ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:15 -
Implementation of state health insurance benefit mandates for cancer-related fertility preservation: following policy through a complex system
A myriad of federal, state, and organizational policies are designed to improve access to evidence-based healthcare, but the impact of these policies likely varies due to contextual determinants of, reinterpre...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:14 -
Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations
Cross-system interventions that integrate health, behavioral health, and social services can improve client outcomes and expand community impact. Successful implementation of these interventions depends on the...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:13 -
Implicit and explicit: a scoping review exploring the contribution of anthropological practice in implementation science
This study’s goal is to identify the existing variation in how, why, and by whom anthropological practice is conducted as part of implementation science projects. As doctorally trained anthropologists, we soug...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:12 -
Exploring the role of professional identity in the implementation of clinical decision support systems—a narrative review
Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have the potential to improve quality of care, patient safety, and efficiency because of their ability to perform medical tasks in a more data-driven, evidence-based, ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:11 -
Adjunctive interventions: change methods directed at recipients that support uptake and use of health innovations
Implementation science groups change methods into two categories: (1) clinical, behavioral, or biomedical intervention targeting recipient’s health outcomes and (2) implementation strategies targeting the deliver...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:10 -
Action planning for building public health program sustainability: results from a group-randomized trial
Public health programs are charged with implementing evidence-based interventions to support public health improvement; however, to achieve long-term population-based benefits, these interventions must be sust...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:9 -
The effectiveness of interventions to disseminate the results of non-commercial randomised clinical trials to healthcare professionals: a systematic review
It is unclear how to disseminate the results of randomised controlled trials effectively to health professionals and policymakers to improve treatment, care or prevention through changing policy and practice. ...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:8 -
Models and approaches for building knowledge translation capacity and capability in health services: a scoping review
Building healthcare service and health professionals’ capacity and capability to rapidly translate research evidence into health practice is critical to the effectiveness and sustainability of healthcare syste...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:7 -
Conditions for adherence to videoconference-based programs promoting adapted physical activity in cancer patients: a realist evaluation
Although moderate physical activity (PA) during cancer treatment has been associated with improved quality of life, reduced side effects, and even lower mortality, many barriers to successful implementation re...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:6 -
Tailored implementation of national recommendations on fall prevention among older adults in municipalities in Norway (FALLPREVENT trial): a study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial
Despite substantial research evidence indicating the effectiveness of a range of interventions to prevent falls, uptake into routine clinical practice has been limited by several implementation challenges. The...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:5 -
Implementation fidelity, student outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer strategies for Masters-level therapists in urban schools: results from a cluster randomized trial
Little is known about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer implementation strategies in supporting mental health evidence-based practices in schools, and about the optimal level of sup...
Citation: Implementation Science 2024 19:4
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