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Implementing Exercise in Healthcare Settings: The Potential of Implementation Science

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Exercise is an efficacious therapy for many chronic diseases. Integrating efficacious evidence-based interventions (EBIs), such as exercise, into daily healthcare practice is a slow and complex pursuit. Implementation science seeks to understand and address this phenomenon by conducting studies about the methods used to promote the routine uptake of EBIs. The purpose of this article is to explore implementation science and a common conceptual framework in the discipline, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), as it applies to exercise EBI. We conclude by offering recommendations for future research that leverage implementation science priorities to highlight the potential of this research field for advancing the implementation of exercise EBI.

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  1. Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Level 5, 215 Spring Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia

    Louise Czosnek, Eva Zopf & Prue Cormie

  2. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Nicole Rankin

  3. Faculty of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Justin Richards

  4. School of Public Health and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Justin Richards

  5. School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Simon Rosenbaum

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Czosnek, L., Rankin, N., Zopf, E. et al. Implementing Exercise in Healthcare Settings: The Potential of Implementation Science. Sports Med 50, 1–14 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01228-0

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