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Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:47
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A prospective assessment of readiness to implement an early detection of cerebral palsy pathway in a neonatal intensive care setting using the PARIHS framework
Early detection of cerebral palsy (CP) is possible through targeted use of assessment tools. Changes in practice are needed to facilitate this shift towards earlier diagnosis of CP in New Zealand. The aim of t...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:46 -
Underreporting of implementation strategies and barriers in physical activity interventions for young people at risk of problematic substance use: a brief report
Several studies have assessed whether physical activity interventions can reduce substance use in young people at risk of problematic substance use. This report identifies and describes the reporting of implem...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:45 -
Optimizing evidence-based practice implementation: a case study on simulated patient protocols in long-term opioid therapy
Substantial work has been done to update or create evidence-based practices (EBPs) in the changing health care landscape. However, the success of these EBPs is limited by low levels of clinician implementation.
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:44 -
Knowledge Translation Task Force for core measures clinical practice guideline: a short report on the process and utilization
As part of the 2018 Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG): A Core Set of Outcome Measures for Adults with Neurologic Conditions Undergoing Rehabilitation, a Knowledge Translation (KT) Task Force was convened. The ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:43 -
Assessing organizational readiness for the Clean Cuts and Sharp Minds Collective: a barbershop health promotion network
Black men have among the lowest life expectancy in the United States. Alarmingly, these men are underrepresented in health promotion efforts. There are well-documented barriers to recruiting and retaining Blac...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:42 -
The implementation of embedded researchers in policy, public services, and commercial settings: a systematic evidence and gap map
Embedding researchers into policy and other settings may enhance research capacity within organisations to enable them to become more research active. We aimed to generate an evidence map on evaluations of emb...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:41 -
Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize tuberculosis (SAIA-TB) screening, treatment, and prevention in South Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial
The use of systems engineering tools, including the development and use of care cascades using routinely collected data, process mapping, and continuous quality improvement, is used for frontline healthcare wo...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:40 -
Identifying barriers and facilitators to primary care practitioners implementing health assessments for people with intellectual disability: a Theoretical Domains Framework-informed scoping review
People with intellectual disability experience poorer health outcomes compared with the general population, partly due to the difficulties of accessing preventive care in primary care settings. There is good e...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:39 -
Organizing the dissemination and implementation field: who are we, what are we doing, and how should we do it?
Two decades into its tenure as a field, dissemination and implementation (D&I) scientists have begun a process of self-reflection, illuminating a missed opportunity to bridge the gap between research and pract...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:38 -
Unpacking overuse of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer to inform de-implementation strategies
Many men with prostate cancer will be exposed to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). While evidence-based ADT use is common, ADT is also used in cases with no or limited evidence resulting in more harm than be...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:37 -
Locked in and left out: the "prison penalty" for implementation of evidence-based interventions
While the broader medical community grapples with the widely accepted notion that it takes an average of 17 years for research evidence to be incorporated into clinical practice, the implementation of evidence...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:36 -
Implementation of new technologies designed to improve cervical cancer screening and completion of care in low-resource settings: a case study from the Proyecto Precancer
This case study details the experience of the Proyecto Precancer in applying the Integrative Systems Praxis for Implementation Research (INSPIRE) methodology to guide the co-development, planning, implementati...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:35 -
Correction: An initial typology of approaches used by policy and practice agencies to achieve sustained implementation of interventions to improve health
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:34 -
Developing a low back pain guideline implementation programme in collaboration with physiotherapists and chiropractors using the Behaviour Change Wheel: a theory-driven design study
Low back pain is still the leading cause of disability and societal burden, with 619 million prevalent cases worldwide in 2020. Most countries produce clinical guidelines to support healthcare professionals in...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:33 -
Using stated preference methods to facilitate knowledge translation in implementation science
Enhancing the arsenal of methods available to shape implementation strategies and bolster knowledge translation is imperative. Stated preference methods, including discrete choice experiments (DCE) and best-wo...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:32 -
Leveraging human-centered design and causal pathway diagramming toward enhanced specification and development of innovative implementation strategies: a case example of an outreach tool to address racial inequities in breast cancer screening
Implementation strategies are strategies to improve uptake of evidence-based practices or interventions and are essential to implementation science. Developing or tailoring implementation strategies may benefi...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:31 -
A synthesis of qualitative evidence of barriers and facilitators in implementing guidelines for TB testing in healthcare settings
The suboptimal case notification rates for tuberculosis (TB) globally could partly be due to the poor implementation of TB testing guidelines or policies. We identified, appraised and synthesized qualitative e...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:30 -
Co-designing strategies to implement long-acting injectable PrEP for sexual minority men in Chicago: a study protocol for an innovation tournament and implementation mapping
Participatory design approaches can improve successful selection and tailoring of implementation strategies by centering the voices of key constituents. To reduce incidence of the human immunodeficiency virus ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:29 -
Who are vaccine champions and what implementation strategies do they use to improve adolescent HPV vaccination? Findings from a national survey of primary care professionals
Implementation science researchers often cite clinical champions as critical to overcoming organizational resistance and other barriers to the implementation of evidence-based health services, yet relatively l...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:28 -
Scaling-up and scaling-out the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach to optimize the hypertension diagnosis and care cascade for HIV infected individuals (SCALE SAIA-HTN): a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial
Undiagnosed and untreated hypertension is a main driver of cardiovascular disease and disproportionately affects persons living with HIV (PLHIV) in low- and middle-income countries. Across sub-Saharan Africa, ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:27 -
Facilitators and barriers for implementation of health programmes with Māori communities
Addressing health inequities that Māori (Indigenous peoples) communities face in New Zealand is a key aim of researchers and practitioners. However, there is limited understanding of the implementation process...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:26 -
An assessment of adaptation and fidelity in the implementation of an audit and feedback-based intervention to improve transition to adult type 1 diabetes care in Ontario, Canada
The fit between an intervention and its local context may affect its implementation and effectiveness. Researchers have stated that both fidelity (the degree to which an intervention is delivered, enacted, and...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:25 -
Economic evaluations performed alongside randomized implementation trials in clinical settings: a systematic review
Economic evaluations alongside implementation trials compare the outcomes and costs of competing implementation strategies to identify the most efficient strategies. The aims of this systematic review were to ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:24 -
Assessing the implementation of a multi-component hypertension program in a Guatemalan under-resourced dynamic context: an application of the RE-AIM/PRISM extension for sustainability and health equity
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid changes in healthcare delivery in Guatemala’s public primary care settings. A new hypertension program, implemented as part of a type 2 hybrid trial since 2019, exempli...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:23 -
Learning from the implementation of a surgical opioid reduction initiative in an integrated health system: a qualitative study among providers and patients
Surgical opioid overprescribing can result in long-term use or misuse. Between July 2018 and March 2019, the multicomponent intervention, Minimizing Opioid Prescribing in Surgery (MOPiS) was implemented in the...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:22 -
An initial typology of approaches used by policy and practice agencies to achieve sustained implementation of interventions to improve health
Scientific investigation of how to sustain the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBI) is emerging. Sustaining the implementation of EBIs helps ensure their effects on improving health endure. Ext...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:21 -
Group prenatal care successes, challenges, and frameworks for scaling up: a case study in adopting health care innovations
Group prenatal care enhances quality of care, improves outcomes, and lowers costs. However, this healthcare innovation is not widely available. Using a case-study approach, our objectives were to (1) examine o...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:20 -
Building a communication and support network among quality improvement teams in nursing homes: a longitudinal study of the SCOPE trial
We applied a longitudinal network analysis approach to assess the formation of knowledge sharing and collaboration networks among care aide-led quality improvement (QI) teams in Canadian nursing homes particip...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:19 -
The “D&I Bridge”: introducing a teaching tool to define the D, the I, and the why
Interest in learning dissemination and implementation (D&I) science is at an all-time high. As founding faculty and fellows of a new center focused on D&I science, we have found that non-specialist researchers...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:18 -
A mixed-methods evaluation of organization and individual factors influencing provider intentions to use caregiver coaching in community-based early intervention
Most psycho-social interventions contain multiple components. Practitioners often vary in their implementation of different intervention components. Caregiver coaching is a multicomponent intervention for youn...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:17 -
Virtual facilitation best practices and research priorities: a scoping review
Facilitation is an implementation strategy that supports the uptake of evidence-based practices. Recently, use of virtual facilitation (VF), or the application of facilitation using primarily video-based confe...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:16 -
Multilevel approaches to address disparities in lung cancer screening: a study protocol
Low-dose computed tomography (lung cancer screening) can reduce lung cancer-specific mortality by 20–24%. Based on this evidence, the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual lung cancer ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:15 -
What do you think it means? Using cognitive interviewing to improve measurement in implementation science: description and case example
Pragmatic measures are essential to evaluate the implementation of evidence-based interventions. Cognitive interviewing, a qualitative method that collects partner feedback throughout measure development, is p...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:14 -
Fidelity-consistency and deliberateness of modifications in parenting programs
Evidence-based interventions (EBIs) are frequently modified in practice. It is recommended that decisions to modify EBIs should be made deliberately to ensure fidelity-consistency, yet the relationship between...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:13 -
Influencing factors for the implementation of school-based interventions promoting obesity prevention behaviors in children with low socioeconomic status: a systematic review
Health inequity (HI) remains a major challenge in public health. Improving the health of children with low socioeconomic status (SES) can help to reduce overall HI in children. Childhood obesity is a global pr...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:12 -
Correction: Methods for scaling up an outreach intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in rural areas
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:11 -
Barriers and facilitators to a task-shifted stroke prevention program for children with sickle cell anemia in a community hospital: a qualitative study
Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) are at high risk for stroke. Protocols for stroke prevention including blood transfusions, screening for abnormal non-imaging transcranial Doppler (TCD) measurements, and...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:10 -
Researchers’ views on and practices of knowledge translation: an international survey of transfusion medicine researchers
Health research is often driven by the desire to improve the care and health of the community; however, the translation of research evidence into policy and practice is not guaranteed. Knowledge translation (K...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:9 -
Evaluation of strategies to support implementation of a hospital walking program: protocol for a type III effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial
STRIDE is a supervised walking program designed to address the negative consequences of immobility during hospitalization for older adults. In an 8-hospital stepped wedge randomized controlled trial, STRIDE wa...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:8 -
Implementing integrated hypertension and diabetes management using the World Health Organization’s HEARTS model: protocol for a pilot study in the Guatemalan national primary care system
The HEARTS technical package was developed by the World Health Organization to address the implementation gap in cardiovascular disease prevention in low- and middle-income countries. Guatemala is a middle-inc...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:7 -
Methods for scaling up an outreach intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in rural areas
Mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) outreach and patient navigation are evidence-based practices shown to improve rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) and follow-up in various settings, yet these programs have ...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:6 -
A study protocol for implementing Canadian Practice Guidelines for Treating Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders
Eating disorders have one of the highest mortality rates among psychiatric illnesses. Timely intervention is crucial for effective treatment, as eating disorders tend to be chronic and difficult to manage if l...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:5 -
Advancing the community plan to end the HIV Epidemic in Philadelphia: a qualitative descriptive evaluation of low-threshold PrEP services in sexual health clinics
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective HIV prevention method and a key component of Philadelphia’s Community Plan to End the HIV Epidemic (EHE). However, significant barriers to accessing PrEP exist a...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:4 -
Use of implementation mapping in the planning of a hybrid type 1 pragmatic clinical trial: the BeatPain Utah study
Considerable disparities in chronic pain management have been identified. Persons in rural, lower income, and minoritized communities are less likely to receive evidence-based, nonpharmacologic care. Telehealt...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:3 -
A feasibility study of provider-level implementation strategies to improve access to colorectal cancer screening for patients with schizophrenia: ACCESS2 (N-EQUITY 2104) trial
People with schizophrenia have a lower colorectal screening rate than the general population. A previous study reported an intervention using case management to encourage colorectal cancer screening for patien...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:2 -
Community health worker training to reduce mental health and substance use stigma towards patients who have disengaged from HIV/TB care in South Africa: protocol for a stepped wedge hybrid type II pilot implementation trial
South Africa has deployed community health workers (CHWs) to support individuals to enter and stay in HIV/TB care. Although CHWs routinely encounter patients with mental health (particularly depression) and su...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2024 5:1 -
Instrumental variables for implementation science: exploring context-dependent causal pathways between implementation strategies and evidence-based interventions
The impact of both implementation strategies (IS) and evidence-based interventions (EBI) can vary across contexts, and a better understanding of how and why this occurs presents fundamental but challenging que...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2023 4:157 -
Moving behavioral interventions in nursing homes from planning to action: a work system evaluation of a urinary tract infection toolkit implementation
Implementation evaluations based on a hybrid deductive-inductive approach provide a detailed understanding of organizational choices to introduce and implement complex interventions and may help explain implem...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2023 4:156 -
‘Smart’ BLE wearables for digital contact tracing in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic—a process evaluation of the CONTACT feasibility study
Rapid and mass transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus amongst vulnerable people led to devastating effects from COVID-19 in care homes. The CONTACT intervention introduced Bluetooth Low Energy ‘smart’ wearable d...
Citation: Implementation Science Communications 2023 4:155
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