Alongside the growth in interest in implementation science, there has been a marked increase in training programs, educational courses, degrees, and other offerings in implementation research and practice to meet the demand for this expertise. We believe that the science of capacity building has matured but that we can advance it further by shining light on excellent work in this area and by hi...

The Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) program and implementation research have both come of age in the 10 years since QUERI was established. Looking forward, if QUERI and the field of implementation science are to mature successfully, we will need to address a series of challenges. First, we need to more clearly demonstrate how applying principles of implementation science leads t...

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: COPD is a progressive airways disease that results in death or disability. There poor uptake of clinical guidelines (CPG) to manage and studies bridge this implementation gap have shown inconsistent results. Using science principles we aim understand COPD-CPG determinants from providers’perspective. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: The study being conducted ten VA Primary Care Clinic...