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  1. Health-policy decision making is a complex and dynamic process, for which strong evidentiary support is required. This includes scientifically produced research, as well as information that relates to the cont...

    Authors: Hannah Geddie, Mark J Dobrow, Jeffrey S Hoch and Linda Rabeneck
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:51
  2. One of the most consistent findings from clinical and health services research is the failure to translate research into practice and policy. As a result of these evidence-practice and policy gaps, patients fa...

    Authors: Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles, John N Lavis, Sophie J Hill and Janet E Squires
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:50
  3. Ten years after the nationwide dissemination of two evidence-based treatment programs, the status of the implementation components was evaluated in a cross-sectional study. The aim of the study was to pilot a ...

    Authors: Terje Ogden, Gunnar Bjørnebekk, John Kjøbli, Joshua Patras, Terje Christiansen, Knut Taraldsen and Nina Tollefsen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:49
  4. Knowledge translation (KT) research in long-term care (LTC) is still in its early stages. This protocol describes the evaluation of a multifaceted, interdisciplinary KT intervention aimed at integrating eviden...

    Authors: Courtney C Kennedy, George Ioannidis, Lora M Giangregorio, Jonathan D Adachi, Lehana Thabane, Suzanne N Morin, Richard G Crilly, Sharon Marr, Robert G Josse, Lynne Lohfeld, Laura E Pickard, Susanne King, Mary-Lou van der Horst, Glenda Campbell, Jackie Stroud, Lisa Dolovich…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:48
  5. Although care pathways are often said to promote teamwork, high-level evidence that supports this statement is lacking. Furthermore, knowledge on conditions and facilitators for successful pathway implementati...

    Authors: Svin Deneckere, Martin Euwema, Cathy Lodewijckx, Massimiliano Panella, Walter Sermeus and Kris Vanhaecht
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:47
  6. Nurses’ research utilization (RU) as part of evidence-based practice is strongly emphasized in today’s nursing education and clinical practice. The primary aim of RU is to provide high-quality nursing care to ...

    Authors: Henrietta Forsman, Ann Rudman, Petter Gustavsson, Anna Ehrenberg and Lars Wallin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:46
  7. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has led the industry in measuring facility performance as a critical element in improving quality of care, investing substantial resources to develop and maintain valid ...

    Authors: Sylvia J Hysong, Cayla R Teal, Myrna J Khan and Paul Haidet
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:45
  8. Government-sponsored science, technology, and innovation (STI) programs support the socioeconomic aspects of public policies, in addition to expanding the knowledge base. For example, beneficial healthcare ser...

    Authors: Vathsala I Stone and Joseph P Lane
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:44
  9. This paper presents the rationale and methods for a randomized controlled evaluation of web-based training in motivational interviewing, goal setting, and behavioral task assignment. Web-based training may be ...

    Authors: Josef I Ruzek, Raymond C Rosen, Lisa Marceau, Mary Jo Larson, Donn W Garvert, Lauren Smith and Anne Stoddard
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:43
  10. Clinical practice guidelines are developed to improve the quality of healthcare. However, clinical guidelines may contribute to health inequities experienced by disadvantaged groups. This study uses an equity ...

    Authors: Lindsay AM Mizen, Marjorie L Macfie, Linda Findlay, Sally-Ann Cooper and Craig A Melville
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:42
  11. To address the problem of translation from research-based evidence to routine healthcare practice, the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Linc...

    Authors: Emma Rowley, Richard Morriss, Graeme Currie and Justine Schneider
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:40
  12. There is little systematic operational guidance about how best to develop complex interventions to reduce the gap between practice and evidence. This article is one in a Series of articles documenting the deve...

    Authors: Simon D French, Sally E Green, Denise A O’Connor, Joanne E McKenzie, Jill J Francis, Susan Michie, Rachelle Buchbinder, Peter Schattner, Neil Spike and Jeremy M Grimshaw
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:38
  13. Around 5,000 miscarriages and 300 perinatal deaths per year result from maternal smoking in the United Kingdom. In the northeast of England, 22% of women smoke at delivery compared to 14% nationally. Midwives ...

    Authors: Jane Beenstock, Falko F Sniehotta, Martin White, Ruth Bell, Eugene MG Milne and Vera Araujo-Soares
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:36
  14. Behaviour change is key to increasing the uptake of evidence into healthcare practice. Designing behaviour-change interventions first requires problem analysis, ideally informed by theory. Yet the large number...

    Authors: Jill J Francis, Denise O’Connor and Janet Curran
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:35
  15. Concerns about the confidentiality of personal health information have been identified as a potential obstacle to implementation of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Considering the stigma and confidentiali...

    Authors: Andre Maiorana, Wayne T Steward, Kimberly A Koester, Charles Pearson, Starley B Shade, Deepalika Chakravarty and Janet J Myers
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:34
  16. Realist synthesis is an increasingly popular approach to the review and synthesis of evidence, which focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which an intervention works (or not). There are few published exa...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Brendan McCormack, Alison M Hutchinson, Kara DeCorby, Tracey K Bucknall, Bridie Kent, Alyce Schultz, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Cheryl B Stetler, Marita Titler, Lars Wallin and Val Wilson
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:33
  17. Adaptations are often made to evidence-based practices (EBPs) by systems, organizations, and/or service providers in the implementation process. The degree to which core elements of an EBP can be maintained wh...

    Authors: Gregory A Aarons, Amy E Green, Lawrence A Palinkas, Shannon Self-Brown, Daniel J Whitaker, John R Lutzker, Jane F Silovsky, Debra B Hecht and Mark J Chaffin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:32
  18. Initiatives to raise the quality of care provided to mothers need to be given priority in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The promotion of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) is a common strategy, but their implemen...

    Authors: Ulrika Baker, Göran Tomson, Mathias Somé, Bocar Kouyaté, John Williams, Rose Mpembeni, Siriel Massawe, Antje Blank, Lars L Gustafsson and Jaran Eriksen
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:31
  19. Collaborative-care management is an evidence-based practice for improving depression outcomes in primary care. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has mandated the implementation of collaborative-care mana...

    Authors: John Fortney, Mark Enderle, Skye McDougall, Jeff Clothier, Jay Otero, Lisa Altman and Geoff Curran
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:30
  20. Immediate blood testing for patients presenting with unexplained complaints in family practice is superfluous from a diagnostic point of view. However, many general pracitioners (GPs) order tests immediately. ...

    Authors: Marloes A van Bokhoven, Hèlen Koch, Trudy van der Weijden, Anuska HM Weekers-Muyres, Patrick JE Bindels, Richard PTM Grol and Geert-Jan Dinant
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:29
  21. Widespread dissemination and implementation of evidence-based human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) linkage-to-care (LTC) interventions is essential for improving HIV-positive patients' health outcomes and reduci...

    Authors: Wynne E Norton
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:27
  22. Modifying the format and content of guidelines may facilitate their use and lead to improved quality of care. We reviewed the medical literature to identify features desired by different users and associated w...

    Authors: Anna R Gagliardi, Melissa C Brouwers and Onil K Bhattacharyya
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:26
  23. Research evidence underpins best practice, but is not always used in healthcare. The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework suggests that the nature of evidence, the ...

    Authors: Kate Seers, Karen Cox, Nicola J Crichton, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Ann Catrine Eldh, Carole A Estabrooks, Gill Harvey, Claire Hawkes, Alison Kitson, Pat Linck, Geraldine McCarthy, Brendan McCormack, Carole Mockford, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Angie Titchen and Lars Wallin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:25
  24. High-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and antiplatelet agents accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions due to preventable adverse drug events. The recently...

    Authors: Tobias Dreischulte, Aileen Grant, Peter Donnan, Colin McCowan, Peter Davey, Dennis Petrie, Shaun Treweek and Bruce Guthrie
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:24
  25. Prior studies measuring fidelity of complex interventions have mainly evaluated adherence, and not taken factors affecting adherence into consideration. A need for studies that clarify the concept of fidelity ...

    Authors: Henna Hasson, Staffan Blomberg and Anna Dunér
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:23
  26. We know that patient care can be improved by implementing evidence-based innovations and applying research findings linked to good practice. Successfully implementing innovations in complex organisations, such...

    Authors: Yiannis Kyratsis, Raheelah Ahmad and Alison Holmes
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:22
  27. Planning a public health initiative is both a science and an art. Public health practitioners work in a complex, often time-constrained environment, where formal research literature can be unavailable or uncer...

    Authors: Anita Kothari, Debbie Rudman, Maureen Dobbins, Michael Rouse, Shannon Sibbald and Nancy Edwards
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:20
  28. Newly graduated nurses are faced with a challenging work environment that may impede their ability to provide evidence-based practice. However, little is known about the trajectory of registered nurses' use of...

    Authors: Lars Wallin, Petter Gustavsson, Anna Ehrenberg and Ann Rudman
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:19
  29. Priority setting for artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs has become an integral part of malaria treatment policy change in malaria-endemic countries. Although these drugs are more efficacious, they are also m...

    Authors: Amani Thomas Mori and Eliangiringa Amos Kaale
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:18
  30. The introduction of evidence-based programs and practices into healthcare settings has been the subject of an increasing amount of research in recent years. While a number of studies have examined initial impl...

    Authors: Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, John Kimberly, Natasha Cook, Amber Calloway, Frank Castro and Martin Charns
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:17
  31. Clinical networks are increasingly being viewed as an important strategy for increasing evidence-based practice and improving models of care, but success is variable and characteristics of networks with high i...

    Authors: Mary Haines, Bernadette Brown, Jonathan Craig, Catherine D'Este, Elizabeth Elliott, Emily Klineberg, Elizabeth McInnes, Sandy Middleton, Christine Paul, Sally Redman and Elizabeth M Yano
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:16
  32. Many delivery-system interventions are fundamentally about change in social systems (both planned and unplanned). This systems perspective raises a number of methodological challenges for studying the effects ...

    Authors: Jeffrey A Alexander and Larry R Hearld
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:15
  33. Investigators recently tested the effectiveness of a collaborative-care intervention for anxiety disorders: Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management(CALM) []) in 17 primary care clinics around the United St...

    Authors: Geoffrey M Curran, Greer Sullivan, Peter Mendel, Michelle G Craske, Cathy D Sherbourne, Murray B Stein, Ashley McDaniel and Peter Roy-Byrne
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:14
  34. Delirium occurs frequently in elderly hospitalised patients and is associated with higher mortality, increased length of hospital stay, functional decline, and admission to long-term care. Healthcare professio...

    Authors: Lotte Van de Steeg, Maaike Langelaan, Roelie Ijkema and Cordula Wagner
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:13
  35. The dominant method of reporting findings from diagnostic and surgical procedures is the narrative report. In cancer care, this report inconsistently provides the information required to understand the cancer ...

    Authors: Robin Urquhart, Geoffrey A Porter, Eva Grunfeld and Joan Sargeant
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:12
  36. Quality improvement (QI) programs focused on mastery of content by individual staff members are the current standard to improve resident outcomes in nursing homes. However, complexity science suggests that lea...

    Authors: Ruth A Anderson, Kirsten Corazzini, Kristie Porter, Kathryn Daily, Reuben R McDaniel Jr and Cathleen Colón-Emeric
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:11
  37. Facilitation is emerging as an important strategy in the uptake of evidence. However, it is not entirely clear from a practical perspective how facilitation occurs to help move research evidence into nursing p...

    Authors: Elizabeth J Dogherty, Margaret B Harrison, Cynthia Baker and Ian D Graham
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:9
  38. Since 2004, 'stepped-care models' have been adopted in several international evidence-based clinical guidelines to guide clinicians in the organisation of depression care. To enhance the adoption of this new t...

    Authors: Gerdien Franx, Matthijs Oud, Jacomine de Lange, Michel Wensing and Richard Grol
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:8
  39. Patients with long-term conditions are increasingly the focus of quality improvement activities in health services to reduce the impact of these conditions on quality of life and to reduce the burden on care u...

    Authors: Peter Bower, Anne Kennedy, David Reeves, Anne Rogers, Tom Blakeman, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Robert Bowen, Martin Eden, Caroline Gardner, Mark Hann, Victoria Lee, Rebecca Morris, Joanne Protheroe, Gerry Richardson, Caroline Sanders, Angela Swallow…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:7
  40. Studies have shown that lifestyle behavior changes are most effective to prevent onset of diabetes in high-risk patients. Primary care providers are charged with encouraging behavior change among their patient...

    Authors: Devin M Mann and Jenny J Lin
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:6
  41. While feasibility of new health technologies in well-resourced healthcare settings is extensively documented, it is largely unknown in low-resourced settings. Uganda's decision to deploy and scale up malaria r...

    Authors: Caroline Asiimwe, Daniel J Kyabayinze, Zephaniah Kyalisiima, Jane Nabakooza, Moses Bajabaite, Helen Counihan and James K Tibenderana
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:5
  42. Although considerable evidence exists about the effectiveness of audit coupled with feedback, very few audit-with-feedback interventions have been done in either home care or supportive living settings to date...

    Authors: Kimberly D Fraser, Anne E Sales, Hannah M O'Rourke and Corinne Schalm
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:4
  43. In the United Kingdom, clinical guidelines recommend that services for depression and anxiety should be structured around a stepped care model, where patients receive treatment at different 'steps,' with the i...

    Authors: David A Richards, Peter Bower, Christina Pagel, Alice Weaver, Martin Utley, John Cape, Steve Pilling, Karina Lovell, Simon Gilbody, Judy Leibowitz, Lilian Owens, Roger Paxton, Sue Hennessy, Angela Simpson, Steve Gallivan, David Tomson…
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:3
  44. Limited research exists on researchers' knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) in the eastern Mediterranean region (EMR). This multi-country study explores researchers' views and experiences regarding the role ...

    Authors: Fadi El-Jardali, John N Lavis, Nour Ataya and Diana Jamal
    Citation: Implementation Science 2012 7:2

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