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Implementation Science

Issue 1/2013

Content (144 Articles)

Open Access Research

Strategies to enhance venous thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients (SENTRY): a pilot cluster randomized trial

Menaka Pai, Nancy S Lloyd, Ji Cheng, Lehana Thabane, Frederick A Spencer, Deborah J Cook, R Brian Haynes, Holger J Schünemann, James D Douketis

Open Access Study protocol

Innovations in major system reconfiguration in England: a study of the effectiveness, acceptability and processes of implementation of two models of stroke care

Naomi Fulop, Ruth Boaden, Rachael Hunter, Christopher McKevitt, Steve Morris, Nanik Pursani, Angus IG Ramsay, Anthony G Rudd, Pippa J Tyrrell, Charles DA Wolfe

Open Access Study protocol

SIMPLE: implementation of recommendations from international evidence-based guidelines on caesarean sections in the Netherlands. Protocol for a controlled before and after study

Sonja Melman, Ellen NC Schoorel, Carmen Dirksen, Anneke Kwee, Luc Smits, Froukje de Boer, Madelaine Jonkers, Mallory D Woiski, Ben Willem J Mol, Johannes PR Doornbos, Harry Visser, Anjoke JM Huisjes, Martina M Porath, Friso MC Delemarre, Simone MI Kuppens, Robert Aardenburg, Ivo MA Van Dooren, Francis PJM Vrouenraets, Frans TH Lim, Gunilla Kleiverda, Paulien CM van der Salm, Karin de Boer, Marko J Sikkema, Jan G Nijhuis, Rosella PMG Hermens, Hubertina CJ Scheepers

Open Access Study protocol

Developing and evaluating communication strategies to support informed decisions and practice based on evidence (DECIDE): protocol and preliminary results

Shaun Treweek, Andrew D Oxman, Philip Alderson, Patrick M Bossuyt, Linn Brandt, Jan Brożek, Marina Davoli, Signe Flottorp, Robin Harbour, Suzanne Hill, Alessandro Liberati, Helena Liira, Holger J Schünemann, Sarah Rosenbaum, Judith Thornton, Per Olav Vandvik, Pablo Alonso-Coello

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluating the implementation of health and safety innovations under a regulatory context: A collective case study of Ontario’s safer needle regulation

Andrea Chambers, Cameron A Mustard, Curtis Breslin, Linn Holness, Kathryn Nichol

Open Access Methodology

The U.S. training institute for dissemination and implementation research in health

Helen I Meissner, Russell E Glasgow, Cynthia A Vinson, David Chambers, Ross C Brownson, Lawrence W Green, Alice S Ammerman, Bryan J Weiner, Brian Mittman

Open Access Short report

WhatisKT wiki: a case study of a platform for knowledge translation terms and definitions — descriptive analysis

Kathleen Ann McKibbon, Cynthia Lokker, Arun Keepanasseril, Heather Colquhoun, Robert Brian Haynes, Nancy L Wilczynski

Open Access Study protocol

Preventive evidence into practice (PEP) study: implementation of guidelines to prevent primary vascular disease in general practice protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Mark F Harris, Jane Lloyd, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Danielle Mazza, Grant Russell, Jane Smith, Chris Del Mar, Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, Sharon Parker, Yordanka Krastev, Upali W Jayasinghe, Richard Taylor, Nick Zwar, Jinty Wilson, Helen Bolger-Harris, Justine Waters

Open Access Study protocol

Implementing training and support, financial reimbursement, and referral to an internet-based brief advice program to improve the early identification of hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in primary care (ODHIN): study protocol for a cluster randomized factorial trial

Myrna N Keurhorst, Peter Anderson, Fredrik Spak, Preben Bendtsen, Lidia Segura, Joan Colom, Jillian Reynolds, Colin Drummond, Paolo Deluca, Ben van Steenkiste, Artur Mierzecki, Karolina Kłoda, Paul Wallace, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Eileen Kaner, Toni Gual, Miranda GH Laurant

Open Access Study protocol

Partnership for fragility bone fracture care provision and prevention program (P4Bones): study protocol for a secondary fracture prevention pragmatic controlled trial

Isabelle Gaboury, Hélène Corriveau, Gilles Boire, François Cabana, Marie-Claude Beaulieu, Pierre Dagenais, Suzanne Gosselin, Earl Bogoch, Marie Rochette, Johanne Filiatrault, Sophie Laforest, Sonia Jean, Alvine Fansi, Diane Theriault, Bernard Burnand

Open Access Study protocol

Improving physician hand hygiene compliance using behavioural theories: a study protocol

Janet E Squires, Kathryn N Suh, Stefanie Linklater, Natalie Bruce, Kathleen Gartke, Ian D Graham, Alan Karovitch, Joanne Read, Virginia Roth, Karen Stockton, Emma Tibbo, Kent Woodhall, Jim Worthington, Jeremy M Grimshaw

Open Access Research

Why a successful task substitution in glaucoma care could not be transferred from a hospital setting to a primary care setting: a qualitative study

Kim M Holtzer-Goor, Thomas Plochg, Hans G Lemij, Esther van Sprundel, Marc A Koopmanschap, Niek S Klazinga

Open Access Study protocol

Implementation of infection control best practice in intensive care units throughout Europe: a mixed-method evaluation study

Hugo Sax, Lauren Clack, Sylvie Touveneau, Fabricio da Liberdade Jantarada, Didier Pittet, Walter Zingg

Open Access Research

Understanding the Canadian adult CT head rule trial: use of the theoretical domains framework for process evaluation

Janet A Curran, Jamie Brehaut, Andrea M Patey, Martin Osmond, Ian Stiell, Jeremy M Grimshaw

Open Access Research

Between and within-site variation in qualitative implementation research

Justin K Benzer, Sarah Beehler, Irene E Cramer, David C Mohr, Martin P Charns, James F Burgess Jr

Open Access Methodology

Tool for evaluating research implementation challenges: A sense-making protocol for addressing implementation challenges in complex research settings

Kelly M Simpson, Kristie Porter, Eleanor S McConnell, Cathleen Colón-Emeric, Kathryn A Daily, Alyson Stalzer, Ruth A Anderson

Open Access Research

Knowledge brokers in a knowledge network: the case of Seniors Health Research Transfer Network knowledge brokers

James Conklin, Elizabeth Lusk, Megan Harris, Paul Stolee

Open Access Research

Public health program capacity for sustainability: a new framework

Sarah F Schell, Douglas A Luke, Michael W Schooley, Michael B Elliott, Stephanie H Herbers, Nancy B Mueller, Alicia C Bunger

Open Access Research

Which practice characteristics are associated with the quality of cardiovascular disease prevention in European primary care?

Sabine Ludt, Stephen M Campbell, Davorina Petek, Justine Rochon, Joachim Szecsenyi, Jan van Lieshout, Michel Wensing, Dominik Ose

Open Access Study protocol

Diabetes in rural towns: effectiveness of continuing education and feedback for healthcare providers in altering diabetes outcomes at a population level: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Christine L Paul, Leon Piterman, Jonathan Shaw, Catherine Kirby, Robert W Sanson-Fisher, Mariko L Carey, Jennifer Robinson, Patrick McElduff, Isaraporn Thepwongsa

Open Access Debate

Towards a general theory of implementation

Carl May

Open Access Systematic review

Measuring team factors thought to influence the success of quality improvement in primary care: a systematic review of instruments

Sue E Brennan, Marije Bosch, Heather Buchan, Sally E Green

Open Access Research

Refining a taxonomy for guideline implementation: results of an exercise in abstract classification

Danielle Mazza, Phillip Bairstow, Heather Buchan, Samantha Paubrey Chakraborty, Oliver Van Hecke, Cathy Grech, Ilkka Kunnamo

Open Access Research

Clinical balance assessment: perceptions of commonly-used standardized measures and current practices among physiotherapists in Ontario, Canada

Kathryn M Sibley, Sharon E Straus, Elizabeth L Inness, Nancy M Salbach, Susan B Jaglal

Open Access Research

Developing program theory for purveyor programs

Christa Oosthuizen, Johann Louw

Open Access Research

What supports physiotherapists’ use of research in clinical practice? A qualitative study in Sweden

Petra Dannapfel, Anneli Peolsson, Per Nilsen

Open Access Study protocol

Implementing a knowledge application program for anxiety and depression in community-based primary mental health care: a multiple case study research protocol

Pasquale Roberge, Louise Fournier, Hélène Brouillet, Catherine Hudon, Janie Houle, Martin D Provencher, Jean-Frédéric Lévesque

Open Access Research

Assessing availability of scientific journals, databases, and health library services in Canadian health ministries: a cross-sectional study

Grégory Léon, Mathieu Ouimet, John N Lavis, Jeremy Grimshaw, Marie-Pierre Gagnon

Open Access Systematic review

A checklist for identifying determinants of practice: A systematic review and synthesis of frameworks and taxonomies of factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice

Signe A Flottorp, Andrew D Oxman, Jane Krause, Nyokabi R Musila, Michel Wensing, Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, Richard Baker, Martin P Eccles

Open Access Study protocol

How do primary health care teams learn to integrate intimate partner violence (IPV) management? A realist evaluation protocol

Isabel Goicolea, Carmen Vives-Cases, Miguel San Sebastian, Bruno Marchal, Guy Kegels, Anna-Karin Hurtig

Open Access Study protocol

Policy to implementation: evidence-based practice in community mental health – study protocol

Rinad S Beidas, Gregory Aarons, Frances Barg, Arthur Evans, Trevor Hadley, Kimberly Hoagwood, Steven Marcus, Sonja Schoenwald, Lucia Walsh, David S Mandell

Open Access Research

Assessing fidelity of delivery of smoking cessation behavioural support in practice

Fabiana Lorencatto, Robert West, Charlotte Christopherson, Susan Michie

Open Access Short report

Developing the next generation of dissemination and implementation researchers: insights from initial trainees

Katherine A Stamatakis, Wynne E Norton, Shannon W Stirman, Cathy Melvin, Ross C Brownson

Open Access Research

Development of quality of care indicators from systematic reviews: the case of hospital delivery

Xavier Bonfill, Marta Roqué, Marta Beatriz Aller, Dimelza Osorio, Carles Foradada, Àngels Vives, David Rigau

Open Access Research

The effectiveness of computer reminders for improving quality assessment for point-of-care testing in general practice—a randomized controlled trial

Marius Brostrøm Kousgaard, Volkert Siersma, Susanne Reventlow, Ruth Ertmann, Peter Felding, Frans Boch Waldorff

Open Access Methodology

Developing a measure of provider adherence to improve the implementation of behavioral health services in primary care: a Delphi study

Gregory P Beehler, Jennifer S Funderburk, Kyle Possemato, Christina L Vair

Open Access Research

The role of evidence, context, and facilitation in an implementation trial: implications for the development of the PARIHS framework

Jo Rycroft-Malone, Kate Seers, Jackie Chandler, Claire A Hawkes, Nicola Crichton, Claire Allen, Ian Bullock, Leo Strunin

Open Access Study protocol

Improving the normalization of complex interventions: measure development based on normalization process theory (NoMAD): study protocol

Tracy L Finch, Tim Rapley, Melissa Girling, Frances S Mair, Elizabeth Murray, Shaun Treweek, Elaine McColl, Ian Nicholas Steen, Carl R May

Open Access Research

A qualitative analysis of a consensus process to develop quality indicators of injury care

Niklas Bobrovitz, Julia S Parrilla, Maria Santana, Sharon E Straus, Henry T Stelfox

Open Access Debate

Proposing a conceptual framework for integrated local public health policy, applied to childhood obesity - the behavior change ball

Anna-Marie Hendriks, Maria WJ Jansen, Jessica S Gubbels, Nanne K De Vries, Theo Paulussen, Stef PJ Kremers

Open Access Research

Explaining the effects of two different strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses: a process evaluation alongside a cluster randomised controlled trial

Anita Huis, Gerda Holleman, Theo van Achterberg, Richard Grol, Lisette Schoonhoven, Marlies Hulscher

Open Access Study protocol

An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Diana Menya, John Logedi, Imran Manji, Janice Armstrong, Brian Neelon, Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara

Open Access Study protocol

Testing use of payers to facilitate evidence-based practice adoption: protocol for a cluster-randomized trial

Todd Molfenter, Jee-Seon Kim, Andrew Quanbeck, Terry Patel-Porter, Sandy Starr, Dennis McCarty

Open Access Research

Guideline adaptation and implementation planning: a prospective observational study

Margaret B Harrison, Ian D Graham, Joan van den Hoek, Elizabeth J Dogherty, Meg E Carley, Valerie Angus

Open Access Methodology

Exploring the feasibility of Conjoint Analysis as a tool for prioritizing innovations for implementation

Katherine Farley, Carl Thompson, Andria Hanbury, Duncan Chambers

Open Access Debate

Knowledge translation within a population health study: how do you do it?

Alison Kitson, Kathryn Powell, Elizabeth Hoon, Jonathan Newbury, Anne Wilson, Justin Beilby

Open Access Study protocol

Best strategies to implement clinical pathways in an emergency department setting: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Mona Jabbour, Janet Curran, Shannon D Scott, Astrid Guttman, Thomas Rotter, Francine M Ducharme, M Diane Lougheed, M Louise McNaughton-Filion, Amanda Newton, Mark Shafir, Alison Paprica, Terry Klassen, Monica Taljaard, Jeremy Grimshaw, David W Johnson

Open Access Research

Bridging the gap between the economic evaluation literature and daily practice in occupational health: a qualitative study among decision-makers in the healthcare sector

Johanna M van Dongen, Emile Tompa, Laurie Clune, Anna Sarnocinska-Hart, Paulien M Bongers, Maurits W van Tulder, Allard J van der Beek, Marieke F van Wier

Open Access Study protocol

Systems intervention to promote colon cancer screening in safety net settings: protocol for a community-based participatory randomized controlled trial

Aimee S James, Veronica Richardson, Jean S Wang, Enola K Proctor, Graham A Colditz

Open Access Study protocol

Improving the implementation of tailored expectant management in subfertile couples: protocol for a cluster randomized trial

Noortje M van den Boogaard, Fleur AM Kersten, Mariëtte Goddijn, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Fulco van der Veen, Peter GA Hompes, Rosella PMG Hermens, Didi DM Braat, Ben Willem J Mol, Willianne LDM Nelen

Open Access Research

Fading vision: knowledge translation in the implementation of a public health policy intervention

Laura Tomm-Bonde, Rita S Schreiber, Diane E Allan, Marjorie MacDonald, Bernie Pauly, Trevor Hancock

Open Access Study protocol

A multi-level system quality improvement intervention to reduce racial disparities in hypertension care and control: study protocol

Lisa A Cooper, Jill A Marsteller, Gary J Noronha, Sarah J Flynn, Kathryn A Carson, Romsai T Boonyasai, Cheryl A Anderson, Hanan J Aboumatar, Debra L Roter, Katherine B Dietz, Edgar R Miller III, Gregory P Prokopowicz, Arlene T Dalcin, Jeanne B Charleston, Michelle Simmons, Mary Margaret Huizinga

Open Access Research

Development of a framework and coding system for modifications and adaptations of evidence-based interventions

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Christopher J Miller, Katherine Toder, Amber Calloway

Open Access Debate

Never the twain shall meet? - a comparison of implementation science and policy implementation research

Per Nilsen, Christian Ståhl, Kerstin Roback, Paul Cairney

Open Access Study protocol

Integrating evidence on patient preferences in healthcare policy decisions: protocol of the patient-VIP study

Carmen D Dirksen, Cecile MA Utens, Manuela A Joore, Teus A van Barneveld, Bert Boer, Dunja HH Dreesens, Hans van Laarhoven, Cees Smit, Anne M Stiggelbout, Trudy van der Weijden

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluation of an interactive program for preventing adverse drug events in primary care: study protocol of the InPAct cluster randomised stepped wedge trial

Maud Keriel-Gascou, Karine Buchet-Poyau, Antoine Duclos, Muriel Rabilloud, Sophie Figon, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Jean Brami, Thierry Vial, Cyrille Colin

Open Access Methodology

Development of two shortened systematic review formats for clinicians

Laure Perrier, Nav Persaud, Anita Ko, Monika Kastner, Jeremy Grimshaw, K Ann McKibbon, Sharon E Straus

Open Access Study protocol

Correctional nursing: a study protocol to develop an educational intervention to optimize nursing practice in a unique context

Joan Almost, Wendy A Gifford, Diane Doran, Linda Ogilvie, Crystal Miller, Don N Rose, Mae Squires

Open Access Methodology

Designing a valid randomized pragmatic primary care implementation trial: the my own health report (MOHR) project

Alex H Krist, Beth A Glenn, Russell E Glasgow, Bijal A Balasubramanian, David A Chambers, Maria E Fernandez, Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, Rodger Kessler, Marcia G Ory, Siobhan M Phillips, Debra P Ritzwoller, Dylan H Roby, Hector P Rodriguez, Roy T Sabo, Sherri N Sheinfeld Gorin, Kurt C Stange

Open Access Study protocol

A strategy to enhance the safety and efficiency of handovers of ICU patients: study protocol of the pICUp study

Nelleke van Sluisveld, Marieke Zegers, Gert Westert, Johannes Gerardus van der Hoeven, Hub Wollersheim

Open Access Research

Knowledge brokering between researchers and policymakers in Fiji to develop policies to reduce obesity: a process evaluation

Gade Waqa, Helen Mavoa, Wendy Snowdon, Marj Moodie, Jimaima Schultz, Marita McCabe, Peter Kremer, Boyd Swinburn

Open Access Systematic review

Toward systematic reviews to understand the determinants of wait time management success to help decision-makers and managers better manage wait times

Marie-Pascale Pomey, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Claudia Sanmartin, Carolyn DeCoster, Nathalie Clavel, Elaine Warren, Madeleine Drew, Tom Noseworthy

Open Access Study protocol

Comparative effectiveness of congregation- versus clinic-based approach to prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Echezona E Ezeanolue, Michael C Obiefune, Wei Yang, Stephen K Obaro, Chinenye O Ezeanolue, Gbenga G Ogedegbe

Open Access Research

A systematic review of the use of theory in randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback

Heather L Colquhoun, Jamie C Brehaut, Anne Sales, Noah Ivers, Jeremy Grimshaw, Susan Michie, Kelly Carroll, Mathieu Chalifoux, Kevin W Eva

Open Access Research

Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program

Mary Dixon-Woods, Myles Leslie, Carolyn Tarrant, Julian Bion

Open Access Study protocol

Improvement of hospital care for patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial (PEARL study)

Jozette JC Stienen, Rosella PMG Hermens, Lianne Wennekes, Saskia AM van de Schans, Helena M Dekker, Nicole MA Blijlevens, Richard WM van der Maazen, Eddy MM Adang, Johan HJM van Krieken, Petronella B Ottevanger

Open Access Systematic review

Guidelines for guideline developers: a systematic review of grading systems for medical tests

Gowri Gopalakrishna, Miranda W Langendam, Rob JPM Scholten, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Mariska MG Leeflang

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol for the evaluation of a pay for performance programme in Pwani region in Tanzania: A controlled before and after study

Josephine Borghi, Iddy Mayumana, Irene Mashasi, Peter Binyaruka, Edith Patouillard, Ikunda Njau, Ottar Maestad, Salim Abdulla, Masuma Mamdani

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluating the effectiveness of a clinical practice change intervention in increasing clinician provision of preventive care in a network of community-based mental health services: a study protocol of a non-randomized, multiple baseline trial

Kate Bartlem, Jennifer Bowman, Megan Freund, Paula Wye, Kathleen McElwaine, Jenny Knight, Patrick McElduff, Karen Gillham, John Wiggers

Open Access Research

Directed funding to address under-provision of treatment for substance use disorders: a quantitative study

Austin B Frakt, Jodie Trafton, Amy Wallace, Matthew Neuman, Steven Pizer

Open Access Study protocol

A randomized controlled dismantling trial of post-workshop consultation strategies to increase effectiveness and fidelity to an evidence-based psychotherapy for Posttraumatic stress disorder

Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, Norman Shields, Josh Deloriea, Meredith SH Landy, Jennifer M Belus, Marta M Maslej, Candice M Monson

Open Access Research

What supports do health system organizations have in place to facilitate evidence-informed decision-making? a qualitative study

Moriah E Ellen, Gregory Léon, Gisèle Bouchard, John N Lavis, Mathieu Ouimet, Jeremy M Grimshaw

Open Access Research

An intervention to improve program implementation: findings from a two-year cluster randomized trial of Assets-Getting To Outcomes

Joie Acosta, Matthew Chinman, Patricia Ebener, Patrick S Malone, Susan Paddock, Andrea Phillips, Peter Scales, Mary Ellen Slaughter

Open Access Study protocol

Improving practice in community-based settings: a randomized trial of supervision – study protocol

Shannon Dorsey, Michael D Pullmann, Esther Deblinger, Lucy Berliner, Suzanne E Kerns, Kelly Thompson, Jürgen Unützer, John R Weisz, Ann F Garland

Open Access Study protocol

Improving implementation of evidence-based practice in mental health service delivery: protocol for a cluster randomised quasi-experimental investigation of staff-focused values interventions

Virginia Williams, Lindsay G Oades, Frank P Deane, Trevor P Crowe, Joseph Ciarrochi, Retta Andresen

Open Access Study protocol

Feasibility and impact of an evidence-based electronic decision support system for diabetes care in family medicine: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Annemie Heselmans, Stijn Van de Velde, Dirk Ramaekers, Robert Vander Stichele, Bert Aertgeerts

Open Access Study protocol

Improving evidence-based primary care for chronic kidney disease: study protocol for a cluster randomized control trial for translating evidence into practice (TRANSLATE CKD)

Chester H Fox, Bonnie M Vest, Linda S Kahn, L Miriam Dickinson, Hai Fang, Wilson Pace, Kim Kimminau, Joseph Vassalotti, Natalia Loskutova, Kevin Peterson

Open Access Study protocol

A mixed methods multiple case study of implementation as usual in children’s social service organizations: study protocol

Byron J Powell, Enola K Proctor, Charles A Glisson, Patricia L Kohl, Ramesh Raghavan, Ross C Brownson, Bradley P Stoner, Christopher R Carpenter, Lawrence A Palinkas

Open Access Study protocol

Strategies to assess the validity of recommendations: a study protocol

Laura Martínez García, Andrea Juliana Sanabria, Ignacio Araya, Jennifer Lawson, R Brian Haynes, David Rigau, Ivan Solà, Petra Díaz del Campo, Maria Dolors Estrada, Itziar Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Elvira García Álvarez, Javier Gracia, Anna Kotzeva, Arturo Louro-González, Flavia Salcedo-Fernandez, Maria Mar Trujillo-Martín, Pablo Alonso-Coello

Open Access Study protocol

Evidence-based care of older people with suspected cognitive impairment in general practice: protocol for the IRIS cluster randomised trial

Joanne E McKenzie, Simon D French, Denise A O’Connor, Duncan S Mortimer, Colette J Browning, Grant M Russell, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles, Jill J Francis, Susan Michie, Kerry Murphy, Fiona Kossenas, Sally E Green

Open Access Research

Barriers and facilitators to implement shared decision making in multidisciplinary sciatica care: a qualitative study

Stefanie N Hofstede, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Manon M Wentink, Anne M Stiggelbout, Carmen LA Vleggeert-Lankamp, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland, Leti van Bodegom-Vos

Open Access Research

A randomized trial of practice facilitation to improve the delivery of chronic illness care in primary care: initial and sustained effects

Michael L Parchman, Polly H Noel, Steven D Culler, Holly J Lanham, Luci K Leykum, Raquel L Romero, Raymond F Palmer

Open Access Study protocol

A study protocol for applying the co-creating knowledge translation framework to a population health study

Kathryn Powell, Alison Kitson, Elizabeth Hoon, Jonathan Newbury, Anne Wilson, Justin Beilby

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol for CONSORT-SPI: an extension for social and psychological interventions

Paul Montgomery, Sean Grant, Sally Hopewell, Geraldine Macdonald, David Moher, Susan Michie, Evan Mayo-Wilson

Open Access Methodology

Development and initial validation of the Influences on Patient Safety Behaviours Questionnaire

Natalie Taylor, Sahdia Parveen, Victoria Robins, Beverley Slater, Rebecca Lawton

Open Access Methodology

A time-responsive tool for informing policy making: rapid realist review

Jessie E Saul, Cameron D Willis, Jennifer Bitz, Allan Best

Open Access Methodology

The implementation research institute: training mental health implementation researchers in the United States

Enola K Proctor, John Landsverk, Ana A Baumann, Brian S Mittman, Gregory A Aarons, Ross C Brownson, Charles Glisson, David Chambers

Open Access Reviewer acknowledgement

Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Anne Sales, Michel Wensing

Open Access Research

Organizational factors associated with readiness to implement and translate a primary care based telemedicine behavioral program to improve blood pressure control: the HTN-IMPROVE study

Ryan J Shaw, Miriam A Kaufman, Hayden B Bosworth, Bryan J Weiner, Leah L Zullig, Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee, Jeffrey D Kravetz, Susan M Rakley, Christianne L Roumie, Michael E Bowen, Pamela S Del Monte, Eugene Z Oddone, George L Jackson

Open Access Research

Better together? a naturalistic qualitative study of inter-professional working in collaborative care for co-morbid depression and physical health problems

Sarah E Knowles, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Nia Coupe, Isabel Adeyemi, Chris Keyworth, Harish Thampy, Peter A Coventry

Open Access Research

Patchy ‘coherence’: using normalization process theory to evaluate a multi-faceted shared decision making implementation program (MAGIC)

Amy Lloyd, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Adrian Edwards, Andrew Rix, Glyn Elwyn

Open Access Research

A realist review of interventions and strategies to promote evidence-informed healthcare: a focus on change agency

Brendan McCormack, Joanne Rycroft-Malone, Kara DeCorby, Alison M Hutchinson, Tracey Bucknall, Bridie Kent, Alyce Schultz, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Cheyl Stetler, Marita Titler, Lars Wallin, Valerie Wilson

Open Access Research

Factors influencing pharmacists’ adoption of prescribing: qualitative application of the diffusion of innovations theory

Mark J Makowsky, Lisa M Guirguis, Christine A Hughes, Cheryl A Sadowski, Nese Yuksel

Open Access Research

Implementing a training intervention to support caregivers after stroke: a process evaluation examining the initiation and embedding of programme change

David James Clarke, Mary Godfrey, Rebecca Hawkins, Euan Sadler, Geoffrey Harding, Anne Forster, Christopher McKevitt, Josie Dickerson, Amanda Farrin

Open Access Study protocol

The PROCESS study: a protocol to evaluate the implementation, mechanisms of effect and context of an intervention to enhance public health centres in Tororo, Uganda

Clare IR Chandler, Deborah DiLiberto, Susan Nayiga, Lilian Taaka, Christine Nabirye, Miriam Kayendeke, Eleanor Hutchinson, James Kizito, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Moses R Kamya, Sarah G Staedke

Open Access Research

Synthesising practice guidelines for the development of community-based exercise programmes after stroke

Leon Poltawski, Charles Abraham, Anne Forster, Victoria A Goodwin, Cherry Kilbride, Rod S Taylor, Sarah Dean

Open Access Methodology

Social network diagnostics: a tool for monitoring group interventions

Sabina B Gesell, Shari L Barkin, Thomas W Valente

Open Access Research

Using behavioural theories to optimise shared haemodialysis care: a qualitative intervention development study of patient and professional experience

Liz Glidewell, Stephen Boocock, Kelvin Pine, Rebecca Campbell, Julia Hackett, Shamila Gill, Martin Wilkie

Open Access Research

Determinants of implementation of maternal health guidelines in Kosovo: mixed methods study

Sharon E Straus, Julia E Moore, Sami Uka, Christine Marquez, A Metin Gülmezoglu

Open Access Study protocol

The PRIME trial protocol: evaluating the impact of an intervention implemented in public health centres on management of malaria and health outcomes of children using a cluster-randomised design in Tororo, Uganda

Sarah G Staedke, Clare IR Chandler, Deborah DiLiberto, Catherine Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Florence Nankya, Emily Webb, Grant Dorsey, Moses R Kamya

Open Access Debate

The dynamic sustainability framework: addressing the paradox of sustainment amid ongoing change

David A Chambers, Russell E Glasgow, Kurt C Stange

Open Access Study protocol

Monitoring and managing metabolic effects of antipsychotics: a cluster randomized trial of an intervention combining evidence-based quality improvement and external facilitation

Richard R Owen, Karen L Drummond, Kristen M Viverito, Kathy Marchant, Sandra K Pope, Jeffrey L Smith, Reid D Landes

Open Access Methodology

Knowledge translation strategies to improve the use of evidence in public health decision making in local government: intervention design and implementation plan

Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters, Maureen Dobbins, Laurie Anderson, Laurence Moore, Mark Petticrew, Rachel Clark, Tahna L. Pettman, Catherine Burns, Marjorie Moodie, Rebecca Conning, Boyd Swinburn

Open Access Research

Leadership in complex networks: the importance of network position and strategic action in a translational cancer research network

Janet C. Long, Frances C. Cunningham, Janice Wiley, Peter Carswell, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Open Access Methodology

The demonstration of a theory-based approach to the design of localized patient safety interventions

Natalie Taylor, Rebecca Lawton, Beverley Slater, Robbie Foy

Open Access Short report

Recruiting clinical personnel as research participants: a framework for assessing feasibility

Sylvia J. Hysong, Kristen Broussard Smitham, Melissa Knox, Khai-El Johnson, Richard SoRelle, Paul Haidet

Open Access Research

Evaluating the effectiveness of a multifaceted, multilevel continuous quality improvement program in primary health care: developing a realist theory of change

Gill Schierhout, Jennifer Hains, Damin Si, Catherine Kennedy, Rhonda Cox, Ru Kwedza, Lynette O’Donoghue, Marea Fittock, Jenny Brands, Katherine Lonergan, Michelle Dowden, Ross Bailie

Open Access Study protocol

Exploring scale-up, spread, and sustainability: an instrumental case study tracing an innovation to enhance dysphagia care

Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish, Sue Pownall, Sabrina Eltringham, Andrew Booth

Open Access Research

Immediate versus sustained effects: interrupted time series analysis of a tailored intervention

Andria Hanbury, Katherine Farley, Carl Thompson, Paul M. Wilson, Duncan Chambers, Heather Holmes

Open Access Research

Determinants for the effectiveness of implementing an occupational therapy intervention in routine dementia care

Carola M. E. Döpp, Maud J. L. Graff, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, Maria W. G. Nijhuis van der Sanden, Myrra J. F. J. Vernooij-Dassen

Open Access Research

The DIAMOND initiative: implementing collaborative care for depression in 75 primary care clinics

Leif I. Solberg, A. Lauren Crain, Nancy Jaeckels, Kris A. Ohnsorg, Karen L. Margolis, Arne Beck, Robin R. Whitebird, Rebecca C. Rossom, Benjamin F. Crabtree, Andrew H. Van de Ven

Open Access Methodology

Cluster randomized adaptive implementation trial comparing a standard versus enhanced implementation intervention to improve uptake of an effective re-engagement program for patients with serious mental illness

Amy M. Kilbourne, Kristen M. Abraham, David E. Goodrich, Nicholas W. Bowersox, Daniel Almirall, Zongshan Lai, Kristina M. Nord

Open Access Study protocol

A multifaceted strategy using mobile technology to assist rural primary healthcare doctors and frontline health workers in cardiovascular disease risk management: protocol for the SMARTHealth India cluster randomised controlled trial

Devarsetty Praveen, Anushka Patel, Stephen McMahon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Gari D. Clifford, Pallab K. Maulik, Rohina Joshi, Stephen Jan, Stephane Heritier, David Peiris

Open Access Systematic review

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