From: Optimizing Implementation in Cancer Control (OPTICC): protocol for an implementation science center
Term | Definition |
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Determinant | Barriers or facilitators of implementing a new clinical practice |
Precondition | Factor that is necessary for an implementation mechanism to be activated |
Mediator | Intervening variable that may account for the relationship between the implementation strategy and the implementation outcome |
Moderator | Factor that increases or decreases the level of influence of an implementation strategy |
Mechanism | Basis for an implementation strategy’s effect—processes or events responsible for change produced by strategies. Mechanisms are always mediators, but the reverse is not true [2] |
Proximal outcome | Product of the implementation strategy that is realized because of its specific mechanism of action. The most immediate, observable outcome in the causal pathway |
Implementation outcome | Outcome that the implementation processes intend to achieve. Not the immediate outcome in the causal pathway |