Table 1 CFIR process domain: implementation leader typologies [5]

Opinion leader

Leaders with “formal or informal roles and influence on attitudes and beliefs of their colleagues with respect to implementation”

Formally appointed internal implementation leaders

Leaders “formally appointed with responsibility for implementing an intervention as a coordinator, project manager, team leader, or similar role”

Champions

Leaders “who dedicate themselves to supporting, marketing, and driving through” an implementation; “overcoming indifference or resistance that the intervention may provoke”; differentiated from Opinion Leaders as Champions are more actively associated with supporting the intervention

External change agents

Leaders from an outside entity “who formally influence or facilitate intervention decisions in a desirable direction.”