TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing the impact of implementation strategies in healthcare
T2 - A research agenda
AU - Powell, Byron J.
AU - Fernandez, Maria E.
AU - Williams, Nathaniel J.
AU - Aarons, Gregory A.
AU - Beidas, Rinad S.
AU - Lewis, Cara C.
AU - McHugh, Sheena M.
AU - Weiner, Bryan J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Powell, Fernandez, Williams, Aarons, Beidas, Lewis, McHugh and Weiner.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The field of implementation science was developed to better understand the factors that facilitate or impede implementation and generate evidence for implementation strategies. In this article, we briefly review progress in implementation science, and suggest five priorities for enhancing the impact of implementation strategies. Specifically, we suggest the need to: (1) enhance methods for designing and tailoring implementation strategies; (2) specify and test mechanisms of change; (3) conduct more effectiveness research on discrete, multi-faceted, and tailored implementation strategies; (4) increase economic evaluations of implementation strategies; and (5) improve the tracking and reporting of implementation strategies. We believe that pursuing these priorities will advance implementation science by helping us to understand when, where, why, and how implementation strategies improve implementation effectiveness and subsequent health outcomes.
AB - The field of implementation science was developed to better understand the factors that facilitate or impede implementation and generate evidence for implementation strategies. In this article, we briefly review progress in implementation science, and suggest five priorities for enhancing the impact of implementation strategies. Specifically, we suggest the need to: (1) enhance methods for designing and tailoring implementation strategies; (2) specify and test mechanisms of change; (3) conduct more effectiveness research on discrete, multi-faceted, and tailored implementation strategies; (4) increase economic evaluations of implementation strategies; and (5) improve the tracking and reporting of implementation strategies. We believe that pursuing these priorities will advance implementation science by helping us to understand when, where, why, and how implementation strategies improve implementation effectiveness and subsequent health outcomes.
KW - Designing and tailoring
KW - Economic evaluation
KW - Effectiveness research
KW - Implementation science
KW - Implementation strategies
KW - Mechanisms
KW - Reporting guidelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064323426&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00003
DO - 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064323426
VL - 7
JO - Frontiers in Public Health
JF - Frontiers in Public Health
IS - JAN
M1 - 3
ER -
