ArticleImplementation research and practice
Is implementation research out of step with implementation practice? Pathways to effective implementation support over the last decade.
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Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Methods used to design audit and feedback interventions to change clinical practice: a scoping review.Frontiers in health services · 2026Pooled it
- Outcomes and instruments used in social prescribing: a modified umbrella review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2024Pooled it
- Deimplementation of inappropriate feeding practices in early care and education: a Hybrid Type 3 cluster-randomized trial.Implementation science : IS · 2026Trial
- Streamlining Qualitative Research: Rapid Analysis Innovations in Expanding the Crisis Care Continuum Through Community-Based Implementation Science.Journal of community health · 2026Article
- Diverse Recruitment for Clinical Trials Using Three Diversity-Enhancing Interventions: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Characterizing, protocolizing, and scaling up local adjunctive interventions and implementation strategies to enhance the reach of HIV-prevention and mental health/substance use treatments: a study protocol.Implementation science communications · 2026Article
- International perspectives on implementation of system change in family mental health.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- The importance of contextually specific support relationships in implementing programs to link people to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment during reentry from county jails.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Enhancing the public health academic's role in community engagement: building trusting relationships through support service delivery.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Using Social Network Analysis to Inform Implementation Science Infrastructure Development.Global implementation research and applications · 2025Article
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- Implementing national care guidelines in local authorities in England and Wales: a theory-of-change.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Integrating social prescribing in a Canadian regional health system to support healthy aging.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2024Article
- Development and psychometric evaluation of the Implementation Support Competencies Assessment.Implementation science : IS · 2024Article
- Understanding Knowledge Mobilisation between Community Champions and Parents: Evidence from a Community-Based Programme to Support Parents with Young Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Organizing the dissemination and implementation field: who are we, what are we doing, and how should we do it?Implementation science communications · 2024Article
- 'It depends': what 86 systematic reviews tell us about what strategies to use to support the use of research in clinical practice.Implementation science : IS · 2024Review
- External relationships as implementation determinants in community-engaged, equity-focused COVID-19 vaccination events.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plain Language Summary: Over the past few years, professionals in the field of implementation science have identified a growing gap between implementation research and implementation practice. While this issue has been highlighted informally, the field is lacking a shared understanding and clear way forward to reconcile this gap. In this paper, the authors describe how professionals providing implementation support have shifted their implementation practice over time through systematic observations of what works (and what does not work) for supporting and sustaining evidence use in service systems to improve population outcomes. The authors share the impressive leaps forward made in the field of implementation practice - from didactic training to responsive and tailored implementation strategies to co-created and relationship-based implementation solutions. The paper concludes with a call to action to the field for the creation of a virtuous learning cycle between professionals conducting implementation research and professionals providing implementation support to change practice as a way to produce a more robust and relevant science of implementation.
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