Implementation science made too simple: a teaching tool

Curran, Geoffrey M.

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“…Leveraging opportunities for collaboration between clinical researchers and implementation scientists will be beneficial for designing and reporting implementation strategies as well as for accelerating translational science. Until then, aligned with efforts to make implementation science accessible [ 44 ], it is our view that we must make reporting of implementation strategies accessible to clinical researchers by revising the guidelines they already use.…”

Section: Using the Pragmatic Implementation Strategy Reporting Toolmentioning

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Integrating implementation science in clinical research to maximize public health impact: a call for the reporting and alignment of implementation strategy use with implementation outcomes in clinical research

Rudd

Davis²,

Beidas

2020

Implementation Sci

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Background Although comprehensive reporting guidelines for implementation strategy use within implementation research exist, they are rarely used by clinical (i.e., efficacy and effectiveness) researchers. In this debate, we argue that the lack of comprehensive reporting of implementation strategy use and alignment of those strategies with implementation outcomes within clinical research is a missed opportunity to efficiently narrow research-to-practice gaps. Main body We review ways that comprehensively specifying implementation strategy use can advance science, including enhancing replicability of clinical trials and reducing the time from clinical research to public health impact. We then propose that revisions to frequently used reporting guidelines in clinical research (e.g., CONSORT, TIDieR) are needed, review current methods for reporting implementation strategy use (e.g., utilizing StaRI), provide pragmatic suggestions on how to both prospectively and retrospectively specify implementation strategy use and align these strategies with implementation outcomes within clinical research, and offer a case study of using these methods. Conclusions The approaches recommended in this article will not only contribute to shared knowledge and language among clinical and implementation researchers but also facilitate the replication of efficacy and effectiveness research. Ultimately, we hope to accelerate translation from clinical to implementation research in order to expedite improvements in public health.

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Integrating implementation science in clinical research to maximize public health impact: a call for the reporting and alignment of implementation strategy use with implementation outcomes in clinical research

Rudd

Davis²,

Beidas

2020

Implementation Sci

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“…Innovation refers to the treatment, intervention, or practice or new "thing" to be implemented, adopted by providers and staff, and delivered to patients. [30] The innovation may be a program, practice, principle, procedure, product, pill, or policy. [31] Recipients.…”

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A Practical Guide to Incorporating Health Equity Domains in Implementation Frameworks

Woodward

Singh

Ndebele-Ngwenya

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Background: Due to limited systematic integration of health equity and implementation science, it is imperative to provide researchers and practitioners tools to guide implementation in settings where there is inequitable implementation of an intervention. Our prior work documented and piloted the first published adaptation of an existing implementation science framework with health equity determinants to create the Health Equity Implementation Framework. We suggested how others’ might adapt their preferred implementation science frameworks with three health equity domains: 1) cultural factors of recipients, 2) clinical encounter, or patient-provider interaction, and 3) societal influences (including but not limited to social determinants of health). This manuscript is a practical guide to utilize three health equity domains in implementation research and practice.Methods: We describe in greater depth than in our previous publication domains typical in implementation determinants frameworks and three adaptations: domains known to affect health equity. For each domain, we compiled definitions with supporting literature, defined relevant subdomains, showcased an illustrative example, and suggested sample measures, both quantitative and qualitative.Results: We describe how to incorporate the three health equity domains in one’s preferred implementation science framework, or how to use the Health Equity Implementation Framework specifically. Practical guidelines follow ten published recommendations on how to use frameworks in implementation research and practice. We describe a new case study in which the framework guided evaluation.Conclusions: Incorporating health equity domains within implementation frameworks may optimize the scientific yield and equity of implementation efforts by assessing and ideally, addressing, implementation and equity barriers simultaneously. The practical guidance and tools provided can assist implementation scientists and practitioners to concretely address inequity in implementation across populations to capture and analyze information used to assess health outcomes.Contributions to the LiteratureSpecific definitions of implementation and three health equity domains with examples of how they have been applied in published literature and sample measures.Practical tools, including a qualitative interview guide and codebookCase study of how the Health Equity Implementation Framework guided analysis in an implementation study

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“…An implementation strategy refers to a method or technique that can be used to “enhance the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of a clinical program or practice” (Proctor, Powell, & McMillen, 2013). Colloquially speaking then, an intervention is “the thing” and an implementation strategy is “the way” to support individuals to “do the thing” (Curran, 2020). Implementation strategies can fall into five categories (Powell et al, 2012): (a) Planning strategies, such as assessing for readiness and building buy‐in, (b) education strategies such as training and outreach, (c) finance strategies such as incentivizing the use or penalizing the nonuse of evidence‐based practice, (d) quality management strategies, such as quality monitoring and feedback, and (e) policy strategies such as accreditation and membership.…”

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Applications of translation and implementation science to community psychology: An introduction to a special issue

Schueller

Boustani

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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Implementation science made too simple: a teaching tool

Cited by 130 publications

References 7 publications

Integrating implementation science in clinical research to maximize public health impact: a call for the reporting and alignment of implementation strategy use with implementation outcomes in clinical research

Integrating implementation science in clinical research to maximize public health impact: a call for the reporting and alignment of implementation strategy use with implementation outcomes in clinical research

A Practical Guide to Incorporating Health Equity Domains in Implementation Frameworks

Applications of translation and implementation science to community psychology: An introduction to a special issue

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