Enhancing Dissemination and Implementation Research Using Systems Science Methods

Enhancing implementation science by applying best principles of systems science

BACKGROUND Implementation science holds promise for better ensuring that research is translated into evidence-based policy and practice, but interventions often fail or even worsen the problems they are intended to solve due to a lack of understanding of real world structures and dynamic complexity. While systems science alone cannot possibly solve the major challenges in public health, systems...

Dissemination and Implementation Research: Challenges and Opportunities

Organizational theory for dissemination and implementation research

BACKGROUND Even under optimal internal organizational conditions, implementation can be undermined by changes in organizations' external environments, such as fluctuations in funding, adjustments in contracting practices, new technology, new legislation, changes in clinical practice guidelines and recommendations, or other environmental shifts. Internal organizational conditions are increasingl...

A Framework for Enhancing the Value of Research for Dissemination and Implementation.

A comprehensive guide that identifies critical evaluation and reporting elements necessary to move research into practice is needed. We propose a framework that highlights the domains required to enhance the value of dissemination and implementation research for end users. We emphasize the importance of transparent reporting on the planning phase of research in addition to delivery, evaluation,...

Advancing the science of dissemination and implementation: three "6th NIH Meetings" on training, measures, and methods

Results The training meeting yielded a map of current training, a field wide training vision, and a set of tensions–notably training for a rapidly evolving field. The research design workgroup produced a common terminology that crosses diverse fields of medicine and public health as well as disciplines, and categorized 27 different designs that have been used for dissemination and implementatio...