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  1. The evidence base for quality improvement (QI) interventions is expanding rapidly. The diversity of the initiatives and the inconsistency in labeling these as QI interventions makes it challenging for research...

    Authors: Susanne Hempel, Lisa V Rubenstein, Roberta M Shanman, Robbie Foy, Su Golder, Marjorie Danz and Paul G Shekelle
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:85
  2. Successful subspecialty referrals require considerable coordination and interactive communication among the primary care provider (PCP), the subspecialist, and the patient, which may be challenging in the outp...

    Authors: Sylvia J Hysong, Adol Esquivel, Dean F Sittig, Lindsey A Paul, Donna Espadas, Simran Singh and Hardeep Singh
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:84
  3. In healthcare, a gap exists between what is known from research and what is practiced. Understanding this gap depends upon our ability to robustly measure research utilization.

    Authors: Janet E Squires, Carole A Estabrooks, Hannah M O'Rourke, Petter Gustavsson, Christine V Newburn-Cook and Lars Wallin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:83
  4. Only about one-third of eligible HIV/AIDS patients receive anti-retroviral treatment (ART). Decentralizing treatment is crucial to wider and more equitable access, but key obstacles are a shortage of trained h...

    Authors: Michael J Schull, Ruth Cornick, Sandy Thompson, Gill Faris, Lara Fairall, Barry Burciul, Sumeet Sodhi, Beverley Draper, Martias Joshua, Martha Mondiwa, Hastings Banda, Damson Kathyola, Eric Bateman and Merrick Zwarenstein
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:82
  5. Practice guidelines (PGs) are systematically developed statements intended to assist in patient and practitioner decisions. The AGREE II is the revised tool for PG development, reporting, and evaluation, compr...

    Authors: Melissa C Brouwers, Julie Makarski, Lisa D Durocher and Anthony J Levinson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:81
  6. This study describes a collaborative planning approach that blends principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and intervention mapping to modify a healthcare manager intervention to a new pati...

    Authors: Leopoldo J Cabassa, Benjamin Druss, Yuanjia Wang and Roberto Lewis-Fernández
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:80
  7. Point-of-care testing (POCT) is increasingly being used in general practice to assist general practitioners (GPs) in their management of patients with diseases. However, low adherence to quality guidelines in ...

    Authors: Frans B Waldorff, Volkert Siersma, Ruth Ertmann, Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Anette Sonne Nielsen, Peter Felding, Niels Mosbæk, Else Hjortsø and Susanne Reventlow
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:79
  8. Climate has a long history in organizational studies, but few theoretical models integrate the complex effects of climate during innovation implementation. In 1996, a theoretical model was proposed that organi...

    Authors: Bryan J Weiner, Charles M Belden, Dawn M Bergmire and Matthew Johnston
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:78
  9. Osteoporosis affects over 200 million people worldwide at a high cost to healthcare systems. Although guidelines on assessing and managing osteoporosis are available, many patients are not receiving appropriat...

    Authors: Monika Kastner, Anna Sawka, Kevin Thorpe, Mark Chignel, Christine Marquez, David Newton and Sharon E Straus
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:77
  10. There is widespread interest in measuring organizational readiness to implement evidence-based practices in clinical care. However, there are a number of challenges to validating organizational measures, inclu...

    Authors: Christian D Helfrich, Dean Blevins, Jeffrey L Smith, P Adam Kelly, Timothy P Hogan, Hildi Hagedorn, Patricia M Dubbert and Anne E Sales
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:76
  11. Anxiety and depressive disorders are highly prevalent disorders and are mostly treated in primary care. The management of these disorders by general practitioners is not always consistent with prevailing guide...

    Authors: Henny Sinnema, Gerdien Franx, Daniëlle Volker, Cristina Majo, Berend Terluin, Michel Wensing and Anton van Balkom
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:75
  12. The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Resea...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Joyce E Wilkinson, Christopher R Burton, Gavin Andrews, Steven Ariss, Richard Baker, Sue Dopson, Ian Graham, Gill Harvey, Graham Martin, Brendan G McCormack, Sophie Staniszewska and Carl Thompson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:74
  13. The theory of planned behaviour has well-evidenced utility in predicting health professional behaviour, but focuses on a single behaviour isolated from the numerous potentially conflicting and facilitating goa...

    Authors: Justin Presseau, Jill J Francis, Neil C Campbell and Falko F Sniehotta
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:73
  14. Knowledge translation (KT) is an imperative in order to implement research-based and contextualized practices that can answer the numerous challenges of complex health problems. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) pr...

    Authors: Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jenni Labarthe, France Légaré, Mathieu Ouimet, Carole A Estabrooks, Geneviève Roch, El Kebir Ghandour and Jeremy Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:72
  15. The current profile of residents living in Canadian nursing homes includes elder persons with complex physical and social needs. High resident acuity can result in increased staff workload and decreased qualit...

    Authors: Lisa A Cranley, Peter G Norton, Greta G Cummings, Debbie Barnard and Carole A Estabrooks
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:71
  16. Decision aids based on the philosophy of shared decision making are designed to help patients make informed choices among diagnostic or treatment options by delivering evidence-based information on options and...

    Authors: Oliver Hirsch, Heidemarie Keller, Tanja Krones and Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:70
  17. Clinical practice guidelines have the potential to facilitate the implementation of evidence into practice, support clinical decision making, specify beneficial therapeutic approaches, and influence public pol...

    Authors: Monika Kastner, Elizabeth Estey, Laure Perrier, Ian D Graham, Jeremy Grimshaw, Sharon E Straus, Merrick Zwarenstein and Onil Bhattacharyya
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:69
  18. Shared decision-making is not widely implemented in healthcare. We aimed to set a research agenda about promoting shared decision-making through continuing professional development.

    Authors: France Légaré, Hilary Bekker, Sophie Desroches, Renée Drolet, Mary C Politi, Dawn Stacey, Francine Borduas, Francine M Cheater, Jacques Cornuz, Marie-France Coutu, Nora Ferdjaoui-Moumjid, Frances Griffiths, Martin Härter, André Jacques, Tanja Krones, Michel Labrecque…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:68
  19. Patients with chronic illness typically receive ambulatory treatment from multiple health professionals. Connectedness between these professionals may influence their clinical decisions and the coordination of...

    Authors: Michel Wensing, Martijn van der Eijk, Jan Koetsenruijter, Bastiaan R Bloem, Marten Munneke and Marjan Faber
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:67
  20. Patient care teams have an important role in providing medical care to patients with chronic disease, but insight into how to improve their performance is limited. Two potentially relevant determinants are the...

    Authors: Jan-Willem Weenink, Jan van Lieshout, Hans Peter Jung and Michel Wensing
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:66
  21. There are often disparities between current evidence and current practice. Decreasing the gap between desired practice outcomes and observed practice outcomes in the healthcare system is not always easy. Stopp...

    Authors: Brittany Folks, William G LeBlanc, Elizabeth W Staton and Wilson D Pace
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:65
  22. A variety of forces are now shaping a passionate debate regarding the optimal approaches to improving the quality of substance abuse services for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. While there have...

    Authors: Douglas K Novins, Gregory A Aarons, Sarah G Conti, Dennis Dahlke, Raymond Daw, Alexandra Fickenscher, Candace Fleming, Craig Love, Kathleen Masis and Paul Spicer
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:63
  23. Accurate diagnosis is a fundamental aspect of appropriate healthcare. However, clinicians need guidance when implementing diagnostic tests given the number of tests available and resource constraints in health...

    Authors: Jonathan Hsu, Jan L Brożek, Luigi Terracciano, Julia Kreis, Enrico Compalati, Airton Tetelbom Stein, Alessandro Fiocchi and Holger J Schünemann
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:62
  24. Type 2 diabetes is an increasingly prevalent chronic illness and an important cause of avoidable mortality. Patients are managed by the integrated activities of clinical and non-clinical members of primary car...

    Authors: Martin P Eccles, Susan Hrisos, Jill J Francis, Elaine Stamp, Marie Johnston, Gillian Hawthorne, Nick Steen, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Marko Elovainio, Justin Presseau and Margaret Hunter
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:61
  25. This study examines research knowledge infrastructures (RKIs) found in health systems. An RKI is defined as any instrument (i.e., programs, interventions, tools) implemented in order to facilitate access, dissemi...

    Authors: Moriah E Ellen, John N Lavis, Mathieu Ouimet, Jeremy Grimshaw and Pierre-Olivier Bédard
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:60
  26. Knowledge translation (KT) aims to close the gap between knowledge and practice in order to realize the benefits of research through (a) improved health outcomes, (b) more effective health services and product...

    Authors: Shannon D Scott, Lauren Albrecht, Kathy O'Leary, Geoff DC Ball, Donna M Dryden, Lisa Hartling, Anne Hofmeyer, C Allyson Jones, Kathy Kovac Burns, Amanda S Newton, David Thompson and Terry P Klassen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:58
  27. Shared decision making (SDM), a process by which health professionals and patients go through the decision-making process together to agree on treatment, is a promising strategy for promoting diet-related deci...

    Authors: Sophie Desroches, Annie Lapointe, Sarah-Maude Deschênes, Marie-Pierre Gagnon and France Légaré
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:57
  28. Increasing the effective targeting and promotion of self-care support for long-term conditions requires more of a focus on patient contexts and networks. The aim of this paper is to describe how within a progr...

    Authors: Anne Rogers, Ivaylo Vassilev, Caroline Sanders, Susan Kirk, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Anne Kennedy, Joanne Protheroe, Peter Bower, Christian Blickem, David Reeves, Dharmi Kapadia, Helen Brooks, Catherine Fullwood and Gerry Richardson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:56
  29. Psychological models predict behaviour in a wide range of settings. The aim of this study was to explore the usefulness of a range of psychological models to predict the health professional behaviour 'referral...

    Authors: Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles, Nick Steen, Marie Johnston, Nigel B Pitts, Liz Glidewell, Graeme Maclennan, Ruth Thomas, Debbie Bonetti and Anne Walker
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:55
  30. Community-based organizations (CBOs) are important stakeholders in health systems and are increasingly called upon to use research evidence to inform their advocacy, program planning, and service delivery. To ...

    Authors: Michael G Wilson, Sean B Rourke, John N Lavis, Jean Bacon and Robb Travers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:54
  31. Qualitative research is used increasingly alongside trials of complex interventions to explore processes, contextual factors, or intervention characteristics that may have influenced trial outcomes. Qualitativ...

    Authors: Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin and Inger B Scheel
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:53
  32. To support the use of research evidence by community-based organizations (CBOs) we have developed 'Synthesized HIV/AIDS Research Evidence' (SHARE), which is an evidence service for those working in the HIV sec...

    Authors: Michael G Wilson, John N Lavis, Jeremy M Grimshaw, R Brian Haynes, Tsegaye Bekele and Sean B Rourke
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:52
  33. Health-system policy makers need timely access to synthesised research evidence to inform the policy-making process. No efforts to address this need have been evaluated using an experimental quantitative desig...

    Authors: John N Lavis, Michael G Wilson, Jeremy M Grimshaw, R Brian Haynes, Steven Hanna, Parminder Raina, Russell Gruen and Mathieu Ouimet
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:51
  34. Tobacco use adversely affects oral health. Clinical guidelines recommend that dental providers promote tobacco abstinence and provide patients who use tobacco with brief tobacco use cessation counselling. Rese...

    Authors: Masamitsu Amemori, Susan Michie, Tellervo Korhonen, Heikki Murtomaa and Taru H Kinnunen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:50
  35. Healthcare organisations seeking to manage knowledge and improve organisational performance are increasingly investing in communities of practice (CoPs). Such investments are being made in the absence of empir...

    Authors: Geetha Ranmuthugala, Frances C Cunningham, Jennifer J Plumb, Janet Long, Andrew Georgiou, Johanna I Westbrook and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:49
  36. Compelling evidence shows that appropriate use of anticoagulation in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation reduces the risk of ischaemic stroke by 67% and all-cause mortality by 26%. Despite this evide...

    Authors: Melina Gattellari, Dominic Y Leung, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Nicholas Zwar, Jeremy Grimshaw and John M Worthington
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:48
  37. Apart from direct protection and reduced productivity loss during epidemics, the main reason to immunize healthcare workers (HCWs) against influenza is to provide indirect protection of frail patients through ...

    Authors: Ingrid Looijmans-van den Akker, Marlies E Hulscher, Theo JM Verheij, Josien Riphagen-Dalhuisen, Johan JM van Delden and Eelko Hak
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:47
  38. Public priorities for improvement often differ from those of clinicians and managers. Public involvement has been proposed as a way to bridge the gap between professional and public clinical care priorities bu...

    Authors: Antoine Boivin, Pascale Lehoux, Réal Lacombe, Anaïs Lacasse, Jako Burgers and Richard Grol
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:45
  39. Dissemination is a critical facet of implementing quality improvement in organizations. As a field, addiction treatment has produced effective interventions but disseminated them slowly and reached only a frac...

    Authors: Andrew R Quanbeck, David H Gustafson, James H Ford II, Alice Pulvermacher, Michael T French, K John McConnell and Dennis McCarty
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:44
  40. Systematic reviews have the potential to inform decisions made by health policymakers and managers, yet little is known about the impact of interventions to increase the use of systematic reviews by these grou...

    Authors: Laure Perrier, Kelly Mrklas, John N Lavis and Sharon E Straus
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:43
  41. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. However, many cases treated as hospital-acquired CAUTI are actually asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU). E...

    Authors: Barbara W Trautner, P Adam Kelly, Nancy Petersen, Sylvia Hysong, Harrison Kell, Kershena S Liao, Jan E Patterson and Aanand D Naik
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:41
  42. A rare disease is a pattern of symptoms that afflicts less than five in 10,000 patients. However, as about 6,000 different rare disease patterns exist, they still have significant epidemiological relevance. We...

    Authors: Henrike Hannemann-Weber, Maura Kessel, Karolina Budych and Carsten Schultz
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:40
  43. The rapid response system (RRS) is a process of accessing help for health professionals when a patient under their care becomes severely ill. Recent studies and meta-analyses show a reduction in cardiac arrest...

    Authors: Stuart D Marshall, Simon Kitto, William Shearer, Stuart J Wilson, Monica A Finnigan, Tamica Sturgess, Tonina Hore and Michael D Buist
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:39
  44. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg region has one of the fastest growing Hispanic communities in the country. This population has experienced disparities in health outcomes and diminished ability to access healthcare s...

    Authors: Michael F Dulin, Hazel Tapp, Heather A Smith, Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez and Owen J Furuseth
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:38
  45. Patient safety can be at stake in both hospital and general practice settings. While severe patient safety incidents have been described, quantitative studies in large samples of patients in general practice a...

    Authors: Sander Gaal, Wim Verstappen, René Wolters, Henrike Lankveld, Chris van Weel and Michel Wensing
    Citation: Implementation Science 2011 6:37

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