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  1. A shortage of transplantable organs is a global problem. There are two types of organ donation: living and deceased. Deceased organ donation can occur following neurological determination of death (NDD) or car...

    Authors: Janet E Squires, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Monica Taljaard, Stefanie Linklater, Michaël Chassé, Sam D Shemie and Gregory A Knoll
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:80
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to disproportionately affect African American communities in the US, particularly those located in urban areas. Despite the fact that HIV is often transmitted from one sexual pa...

    Authors: Alison B Hamilton, Brian S Mittman, John K Williams, Honghu H Liu, Alicia M Eccles, Craig S Hutchinson and Gail E Wyatt
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:79
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  3. Obesity is a pressing public health concern, which frequently presents in primary care. With the explosive obesity epidemic, there is an urgent need to maximize effective management in primary care. The 5As of...

    Authors: Denise L Campbell-Scherer, Jodie Asselin, Adedayo M Osunlana, Sheri Fielding, Robin Anderson, Christian F Rueda-Clausen, Jeffrey A Johnson, Ayodele A Ogunleye, Andrew Cave, Donna Manca and Arya M Sharma
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:78
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  4. An interrupted time series design is a powerful quasi-experimental approach for evaluating effects of interventions introduced at a specific point in time. To utilize the strength of this design, a modificatio...

    Authors: Monica Taljaard, Joanne E McKenzie, Craig R Ramsay and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:77
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  5. Interdisciplinary teamwork (ITW) is designed to promote the active participation of several disciplines in delivering comprehensive cancer care to patients. ITW provides mechanisms to support continuous commun...

    Authors: Dominique Tremblay, Nassera Touati, Danièle Roberge, Jean-Louis Denis, Annie Turcotte and Benoît Samson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:76
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. There is increasing recognition among trialists of the challenges in understanding how particular ‘real-life’ contexts influence the delivery and receipt of complex health interventions. Evaluations of interve...

    Authors: Joanna Reynolds, Deborah DiLiberto, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Evelyn K Ansah, Sham Lal, Hilda Mbakilwa, Katia Bruxvoort, Jayne Webster, Lasse S Vestergaard, Shunmay Yeung, Toby Leslie, Eleanor Hutchinson, Hugh Reyburn, David G Lalloo, David Schellenberg, Bonnie Cundill…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:75
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. The RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) framework is a reliable tool for the translation of research to practice. This framework has been widely applied to assess the impac...

    Authors: Shane N Sweet, Kathleen A Martin Ginis, Paul A Estabrooks and Amy E Latimer-Cheung
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:74
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  8. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are experiencing an epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD) propelled by rapidly increasing rates of hypertension. Barriers to hypertension control in SSA include poor ac...

    Authors: Gbenga Ogedegbe, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Joyce Gyamfi, William Chaplin, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Kiran Khurshid and Richard Cooper
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:73
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  9. Updating is important to ensure clinical guideline (CG) recommendations remain valid. However, little research has been undertaken in this field. We assessed CGs produced by the National Institute for Health a...

    Authors: Laura Martínez García, Emma McFarlane, Steven Barnes, Andrea Juliana Sanabria, Pablo Alonso-Coello and Philip Alderson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:72
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  10. Health research funding agencies are increasingly promoting evidence use in health practice and policy. Building on work suggesting how agencies can support such knowledge translation (KT), this paper discusse...

    Authors: Bev J Holmes, Megan Schellenberg, Kara Schell and Gayle Scarrow
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:71
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Implementation of trial interventions is rarely assessed, despite its effects on findings. We assessed the implementation of a nurse-led intervention to facilitate medication adherence in type 2 diabetes (SAMS...

    Authors: Wendy Hardeman, Laura Lamming, Ian Kellar, Anna De Simoni, Jonathan Graffy, Sue Boase, Stephen Sutton, Andrew Farmer and Ann Louise Kinmonth
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:70
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  12. Currently electronic medical records (EMRs) are implemented in hospitals, because of expected benefits for quality and safety of care. However the implementation processes are not unproblematic and are slower ...

    Authors: Marjolijn HL Struik, Ferry Koster, A Jantine Schuit, Rutger Nugteren, Jorien Veldwijk and Mattijs S Lambooij
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:69
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. Guideline development and uptake are still suboptimal; they focus on clinical aspects of diseases rather than on improving the integration of care. We used a patient-centered network approach to develop five h...

    Authors: Elvira ME Den Breejen, Mirrian AHW Hilbink, Willianne LDM Nelen, Tjerk J Wiersma, Jako S Burgers, Jan AM Kremer and Rosella PMG Hermens
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:68
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. The growing recognition of the importance of concisely communicating research evidence and other policy-relevant information to policymakers has underpinned the development of several information-packaging eff...

    Authors: Taghreed Adam, Kaelan A Moat, Abdul Ghaffar and John N Lavis
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:67
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Community-based approaches have been increasing in the effort to raise awareness and early detection for cancer and other chronic disease. However, many times, such interventions are tested in randomized trial...

    Authors: Cheryl L Holt, Erin K Tagai, Mary Ann Scheirer, Sherie Lou Z Santos, Janice Bowie, Muhiuddin Haider, Jimmie L Slade, Min Qi Wang and Tony Whitehead
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:66
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. Healthcare reform in the United States is encouraging Federally Qualified Health Centers and other primary-care practices to integrate treatment for addiction and other behavioral health conditions into their ...

    Authors: Andrew R Quanbeck, David H Gustafson, Lisa A Marsch, Fiona McTavish, Randall T Brown, Marie-Louise Mares, Roberta Johnson, Joseph E Glass, Amy K Atwood and Helene McDowell
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:65
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. Clinical practice guidelines have been widely developed and disseminated with the aim of improving healthcare processes and patient outcomes but the uptake of evidence-based practice remains haphazard. There i...

    Authors: Bernadette (Bea) Brown, Jane Young, David P Smith, Andrew B Kneebone, Andrew J Brooks, Miranda Xhilaga, Amanda Dominello, Dianne L O’Connell and Mary Haines
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:64
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  18. Falls are the leading cause of injury death in older adults and present a significant public health problem and a major burden to healthcare. Although there is sufficient evidence from randomized controlled tr...

    Authors: Fuzhong Li and Peter Harmer
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:63
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  19. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a cost-effective psychosocial prevention programme that helps people with recurrent depression stay well in the long term. It was singled out in the 2009 National ...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Rob Anderson, Rebecca S Crane, Andy Gibson, Felix Gradinger, Heledd Owen Griffiths, Stewart Mercer and Willem Kuyken
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:62
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  20. New clinical research findings may require clinicians to change their behaviour to provide high-quality care to people with type 2 diabetes, likely requiring them to change multiple different clinical behaviou...

    Authors: Justin Presseau, Gillian Hawthorne, Falko F Sniehotta, Nick Steen, Jill J Francis, Marie Johnston, Joan Mackintosh, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Eileen Kaner, Marko Elovainio, Mark Deverill, Tom Coulthard, Heather Brown, Margaret Hunter and Martin P Eccles
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:61
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  21. More than a fifth of Australian children arrive at school developmentally vulnerable. To counteract this, the Healthy Kids Check (HKC), a one-off health assessment aimed at preschool children, was introduced i...

    Authors: Karyn E Alexander, Bianca Brijnath and Danielle Mazza
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:60
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Diffusion of innovations theory has been widely used to explain knowledge mobilization of research findings. This theory posits that individuals who are more interpersonally connected within an organization ma...

    Authors: Heather L Gainforth, Amy E Latimer-Cheung, Peter Athanasopoulos, Spencer Moore and Kathleen A Martin Ginis
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:59
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Implementation of practice change is difficult and large scale implementation is particularly difficult. Among the challenges facing the healthcare system in general and healthcare organizations is the overuse...

    Authors: David C Aron, Julie Lowery, Chin-lin Tseng, Paul Conlin and Leila Kahwati
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:58
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  24. There is an increasing push for ‘evidence-based’ decision making in global health policy circles. However, at present there are no agreed upon standards or guidelines for how to evaluate evidence in global hea...

    Authors: Jill Luoto, Paul G Shekelle, Margaret A Maglione, Breanne Johnsen and Tanja Perry
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:57
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Much importance has been placed on assessing readiness for change as one of the earliest steps of implementation, but measuring it can be a complex and daunting task. Organizations and individuals struggle wit...

    Authors: Sobia Khan, Caitlyn Timmings, Julia E Moore, Christine Marquez, Kasha Pyka, Galina Gheihman and Sharon E Straus
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:56
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  26. Despite significant increases in global health investment and the availability of low-cost, efficacious interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (pMTCT) in low- and middle-income countries wit...

    Authors: Kenneth Sherr, Sarah Gimbel, Alison Rustagi, Ruth Nduati, Fatima Cuembelo, Carey Farquhar, Judith Wasserheit and Stephen Gloyd
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:55
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  27. Use of theory is essential for advancing the science of knowledge translation (KT) and for increasing the likelihood that KT interventions will be successful in reducing existing research-practice gaps in heal...

    Authors: Aliki Thomas, Anita Menon, Jill Boruff, Ana Maria Rodriguez and Sara Ahmed
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:54
    Content type: Systematic review Published on:

  28. The impact of efforts by healthcare organizations to enhance the use of evidence to improve organizational processes through training programs has seldom been assessed. We therefore endeavored to assess whethe...

    Authors: François Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Marie-France Duranceau, Gail MacKean and Trish Reay
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:53
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Robotic surgery offers many potential benefits for patients. While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots, there are reports that the technology is failing to be introduced...

    Authors: Rebecca Randell, Joanne Greenhalgh, Jon Hindmarsh, Dawn Dowding, David Jayne, Alan Pearman, Peter Gardner, Julie Croft and Alwyn Kotze
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:52
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. A wide range of diverse and inconsistent terminology exists in the field of knowledge translation. This limits the conduct of evidence syntheses, impedes communication and collaboration, and undermines knowled...

    Authors: Heather Colquhoun, Jennifer Leeman, Susan Michie, Cynthia Lokker, Peter Bragge, Susanne Hempel, K Ann McKibbon, Gjalt-Jorn Y Peters, Kathleen R Stevens, Michael G Wilson and Jeremy Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:781
    Content type: Short report Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Implementation Science 2014 9:154

  31. Antibiotic prescribing in dentistry accounts for 9% of total antibiotic prescriptions in Scottish primary care. The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) published guidance in April 2008 (2n...

    Authors: Maria Prior, Paula Elouafkaoui, Andrew Elders, Linda Young, Eilidh M Duncan, Rumana Newlands, Jan E Clarkson and Craig R Ramsay
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:50
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  32. Behavioral interventions such as psychotherapy are leading, evidence-based practices for a variety of problems (e.g., substance abuse), but the evaluation of provider fidelity to behavioral interventions is limit...

    Authors: David C Atkins, Mark Steyvers, Zac E Imel and Padhraic Smyth
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:49
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  33. Despite evidence that erythropoietin and intra- and postoperative blood salvage are expensive techniques considered to be non-cost-effective in primary elective total hip and knee arthroplasties in the Netherl...

    Authors: Veronique MA Voorn, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Cynthia So-Osman, Ad A Kaptein, Anja van der Hout, M Elske van den Akker-van Marle, Ankie WMM Koopman-van Gemert, Albert Dahan, Rob GHH Nelissen, Thea PMM Vliet Vlieland and Leti van Bodegom-Vos
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:48
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  34. Funders of health research increasingly seek to understand how best to allocate resources in order to achieve maximum value from their funding. We built an international consortium and developed a multinationa...

    Authors: Steven Wooding, Stephen R Hanney, Alexandra Pollitt, Jonathan Grant and Martin J Buxton
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. In healthcare and allied healthcare settings, leadership that supports effective implementation of evidenced-based practices (EBPs) is a critical concern. However, there are no empirically validated measures t...

    Authors: Gregory A Aarons, Mark G Ehrhart and Lauren R Farahnak
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:45
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. To address the growing problem of epilepsy among aging Veterans and younger Veterans who have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI), the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has implemented 16 Epilepsy Cen...

    Authors: Mary Jo Pugh, Luci K Leykum, Holly J Lanham, Erin P Finley, Polly H Noël, Katharine K McMillan and Jacqueline A Pugh
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:44
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  39. Use of theory in implementation of complex interventions is widely recommended. A complex trial intervention, to enhance self-management support for people with osteoarthritis (OA) in primary care, needed to b...

    Authors: Mark Porcheret, Chris Main, Peter Croft, Robert McKinley, Andrew Hassell and Krysia Dziedzic
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:42
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  40. Maternal and newborn mortality remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania and Uganda are committed to reduce maternal and newborn mortality, but progress has been limited and many essential inter...

    Authors: Claudia Hanson, Peter Waiswa, Tanya Marchant, Michael Marx, Fatuma Manzi, Godfrey Mbaruku, Alex Rowe, Göran Tomson, Joanna Schellenberg and Stefan Peterson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:41
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Implementation Science 2015 10:152

  41. Stroke can result in death and long-term disability. Fast and high-quality care can reduce the impact of stroke, but UK national audit data has demonstrated variability in compliance with recommended processes...

    Authors: Maxine Power, Pippa J Tyrrell, Anthony G Rudd, Mary P Tully, David Dalton, Martin Marshall, Ian Chappell, Delphine Corgié, Don Goldmann, Dale Webb, Mary Dixon-Woods and Gareth Parry
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:40
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. Identifying feasible and effective implementation strategies that are contextually appropriate is a challenge for researchers and implementers, exacerbated by the lack of conceptual clarity surrounding terms a...

    Authors: Thomas J Waltz, Byron J Powell, Matthew J Chinman, Jeffrey L Smith, Monica M Matthieu, Enola K Proctor, Laura J Damschroder and JoAnn E Kirchner
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:39
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  43. Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability internationally. One of the three effective interventions in the acute phase of stroke care is thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), if...

    Authors: Christine L Paul, Christopher R Levi, Catherine A D’Este, Mark W Parsons, Christopher F Bladin, Richard I Lindley, John R Attia, Frans Henskens, Erin Lalor, Mark Longworth, Sandy Middleton, Annika Ryan, Erin Kerr and Robert W Sanson-Fisher
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:38
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  44. There is increasing recognition of gaps between best scientific evidence and clinical practice. This systematic review aimed to assess the volume and scope of peer-reviewed cancer research output in the years ...

    Authors: Jamie Bryant, Allison Boyes, Kimberley Jones, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Mariko Carey and Rae Fry
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:37
    Content type: Systematic review Published on:

  45. Practice pattern data demonstrate regional variation and lower than expected rates of adherence to practice guideline (PG) recommendations for the treatment of stage II/IIIA resected and stage IIIA/IIIB unrese...

    Authors: Melissa C Brouwers, Julie Makarski, Kimberly Garcia, Saira Akram, Gail E Darling, Peter M Ellis, William K Evans, Mita Giacomini, Lorraine Martelli-Reid and Yee C Ung
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. Health policy makers have stated that diabetes prevention is a priority; however, the type, intensity, and target of interventions or policy changes that will achieve the greatest impact remains uncertain. In ...

    Authors: Laura Rosella, Leslea Peirson, Catherine Bornbaum, Kathy Kotnowski, Michael Lebenbaum, Randy Fransoo, Patricia Martens, Patricia Caetano, Carla Ens, Charles Gardner and David Mowat
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:35
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  47. In the last decade, guideline organizations faced a number of problems, including a lack of standardization in guideline development methods and suboptimal guideline implementation. To contribute to the soluti...

    Authors: Mirrian AHW Hilbink, Marielle MTJ Ouwens, Jako S Burgers and Rudolf B Kool
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:34
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. To be able to design effective strategies to improve healthcare professionals’ implementation behaviors, a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed to assess potential implementation determinants. The presen...

    Authors: Johanna M Huijg, Winifred A Gebhardt, Elise Dusseldorp, Marieke W Verheijden, Nicolette van der Zouwe, Barend JC Middelkoop and Mathilde R Crone
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:33
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  49. Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) continue to be widely used, yet evidence for their effectiveness is equivocal. We sought to explain what happened in Stroke 90:10, a QIC designed to improve stroke car...

    Authors: Pam Carter, Piotr Ozieranski, Sarah McNicol, Maxine Power and Mary Dixon-Woods
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:32
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Dementia is a growing problem, causing substantial burden for patients, their families, and society. General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in diagnosing and managing dementia; however, there are g...

    Authors: Kerry Murphy, Denise A O’Connor, Colette J Browning, Simon D French, Susan Michie, Jill J Francis, Grant M Russell, Barbara Workman, Leon Flicker, Martin P Eccles and Sally E Green
    Citation: Implementation Science 2014 9:31
    Content type: Research Published on:
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