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Evidence-based intervention (EBI) sustainment is one of public health’s largest translational research problems. Fewer than half of public health EBIs are sustained long-term, and sustainment challenges are ev...
Intervention adaptation, the deliberate modification of the design or delivery of interventions to a new context, is more resource efficient than de novo development. However, adaptation must be approached met...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended for HIV prevention in pregnant and postpartum women at substantial ongoing risk for HIV. In resource-limited settings, there exist gaps in the integration of PrEP...
Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) are a common strategy for implementing evidence-based practices; however, there is often variable performance between participating organizations. Few studies of QICs ...
Nearly two million adults in the United States are hospitalized with sepsis yearly, with survivors facing complications that result in high rates of hospital readmission and mortality after discharge. We demon...
The global shortage of trained mental health workers disproportionately impacts mental health care access in low- and middle-income countries. In Kenya, effective strategies are needed to scale-up the workforc...
Schools are one of the most common settings in which youth seek mental health services, yet existing school-based mental health interventions are often difficult to implement due to time, cost, and staffing li...
Low-barrier HIV care is an evidence-based intervention to improve HIV outcomes among those who have complex barriers to care, but the walk-in model poses challenges to integrating behavioral health services. W...
The integration of information and communication technologies in clinical practice can supplement traditional care pathways on discharge education and has exhibited evident benefits in improving patient health...
The high prevalence and significant morbidity and mortality associated with chronic pain among veterans has made expansion of pain services within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) a key priority. TeleP...
Successful implementation and sustainment of interventions is heavily influenced by context. Yet the complexity and dynamic nature of context make it challenging to connect and translate findings across implem...
The original article was published in Implementation Science Communications 2025 6:34
Pragmatism is important in implementation science to ensure that implementation methods reflect the practical concerns of the stakeholders and services involved in change. To evaluate the usability of these me...
Mental health providers’ attitudes toward evidence-based practice are likely to influence what interventions they learn, implement, and sustain over time. A 36-item version of the Evidence-Based Practice Attit...
The CDC’s Social Network Strategy (SNS) is an evidence-supported approach to increase reach for HIV testing among members of marginalized populations. Leveraging social networks could improve access to HIV ser...
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates among Hmong American adolescents are significantly lower than national averages, despite higher cervical cancer rates in this population. eHealth can improve vaccin...
Policies, such as Universal School Meals (USM), are essential for preventing inequities in chronic disease risk among socially and economically marginalized populations. Implementing USM reduces food insecurit...
The rapid growth of the aging population underscores the need for programs tailored to older adults’ complex health needs. Home-delivered meal programs are critical, providing nutrition and socialization suppo...
Most implementation research focuses on understanding and changing health professionals’ work practices. While Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in applied health research is recognised as b...
Patient decision aids have the potential to lower decision conflict for patients and to improve patient-physician communication. However, uptake of decision aids has been poor, in part because the time require...
Implementation science increasingly aims to improve health outcomes in delivery of evidence-based interventions. It is important to understand the inner setting of organizations where interventions are put int...
Sustaining evidence-based interventions in resource-limited settings is critical to optimizing gains in health outcomes. In 2015, we published a review of the sustainability of health interventions in African ...
Community engagement is widely recognized as critical to successful and equitable implementation of evidence-based practices, programs, and policies. However, there are no clear guidelines for community involv...
Despite guideline recommendations, our prior work revealed more than half of low-risk bladder cancer patients within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) undergo too many surveillance procedures and about a...
Evidence-based healthcare recommendations exist for tobacco use, harmful alcohol consumption, low physical activity, and poor diet. However, the uptake of these recommendations in Swedish primary healthcare is...
Contingency management (CM) is the most effective treatment for stimulant use disorder but is underutilized by opioid treatment programs (OTPs) despite the high prevalence of stimulant use in this setting. As ...
Capacity building is critical for research and practice as the fields of dissemination, implementation and translation science continue to grow. Some scholars state that capacity building should be grounded in...
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Home-based care for patients diagnosed in emergency departments (EDs) with low-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) is an evidence-based, guideline-recommended practice that is not widely adopted in the US. Few studie...
Evaluating implementation outcomes is gaining momentum in health service delivery organizations. Teams are increasingly recognizing the importance of capturing and learning from their implementation efforts, a...
Policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches, including those enacted in early childhood education (ECE) settings, can improve child health outcomes. The use of implementation strategies, or the ways in...
Maternity triage is the emergency portal to access maternity services for pregnant or newly postnatal women experiencing unexpected complications or concerns. Traditionally women were seen in the order in whic...
The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) 2.0 is widely used in implementation projects but can be difficult for non-researchers to apply due to its complexity. While a French version of th...
Black-White inequities in severe maternal morbidity in the United States are extreme and growing. Maternal safety bundles (MSBs) have been associated with closing racial equity gaps in maternal health in some ...
The prevalence of smoking opioids and other unregulated drugs has increased across the United States (U.S.) since 2000. Improved access to safer smoking supplies may reduce the health consequences of inhalatio...
As many as 14 million people contract a new case of HPV each year in the United States, with over 37,000 HPV cancers diagnosed each year. However, HPV vaccination coverage varies greatly with disparities by po...
Appropriately and comprehensive applying implementation frameworks is one of the key challenges in implementation science resulting in increased use of multiple implementation frameworks within projects. This ...
A framework to evaluate implementation of Major System Change (MSC) in healthcare has been developed and applied to implementation of longer-term system changes. This was the first study to apply the five doma...
Qualitative methodologies offer a nuanced approach to understanding stakeholder perspectives, preferences, and context in implementation research. However, traditional qualitative data analysis can be time con...
While facilitation is a widely used implementation strategy with proven effectiveness, the development of the facilitator-recipient relationship, i.e., working alliance, has received limited attention. However...
Methods of integrating qualitative data across diverse studies and within multi-site research consortia are less developed than those for integrating quantitative data. The development ofsuchmethods is essenti...
Local public health departments in the United States are responsible for implementing cancer-related programs and policies in their communities; however, many staff have not been trained to use evidence-based ...
Hospital-focused maternal health safety and quality guidelines have been found to reduce pregnancy-related and -associated morbidity and mortality (PRAMM). Unfortunately, quality of obstetric care can improve ...
Understanding factors affecting adoption of an innovation is critical to its long-term success. Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) increase access to facility-based delivery in low-resourced settings; yet, quality...
Variation in perioperative care persists globally. Consensus discussions may facilitate standardisation, yet the processes used to reach agreement are poorly understood. This study aimed to develop a model for...
Initial Canadian federal regulations for the abortion pill, mifepristone, had the potential to impede safe and equitable access to this medication. To catalyze evidence-based regulatory change, we engaged heal...
Maintaining functional status, defined as the ability to perform daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and preparing meals, is central to older adults’ quality of life, health, and ability to remain inde...
The original article was published in Implementation Science Communications 2025 6:5
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based practice that can identify adolescents who use alcohol and other drugs and support proper referral to treatment. Despite an...
Implementation Science research completed with equity-deserving populations is not well understood or explored. The current opioid epidemic challenges healthcare systems to improve existing practices through i...
African Americans experience cardiovascular disease (CVD) disparities, and the burden is greatest in the rural south. Although evidence-based CVD prevention and management programs have been tailored to this c...
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