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ArticleAfrican journal of primary health care & family medicine2025

Understanding implementation research.

Robert Mash, Juliet Nyasulu, Zelra Malan, Lisa Hirschhorn

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Article in African journal of primary health care & family medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Is primary care the 'right care' for respiratory medicine in Africa?African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2026
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  4. South African family medicine research: Past, present and future.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2026
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  5. Building the next generation of family medicine and primary health care researchers in Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025
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4 authors.

Robert MashDivision of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. rm@sun.ac.za.
Juliet Nyasulu
Zelra Malan
Lisa Hirschhorn

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Implementation research (IR) focuses on understanding and closing the gap between evidence-based interventions and practice. Key elements to evaluate include the design of the intervention itself, contextual barriers and enablers to implementation, the use of implementation strategies as well as the achievement of implementation outcomes. This article gives an overview of IR for doctoral-level researchers in the fields of family medicine and primary care. The consolidated framework for IR and socioecological model are considered for making sense of the contextual factors. A typology of implementation strategies is also described to make conceptualisation, reporting and sharing of findings easier. Standard implementation outcomes are described, such as coverage or reach, acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity, costs and sustainability. The RE-AIM framework for implementation outcomes is described. Finally, different study designs are discussed, including hybrid effectiveness-implementation designs and approaches to reporting using the IR logic model.

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Family PracticeHealth Services ResearchImplementation SciencePrimary Health CareHumansResearch Designimplementationimplementation outcomesimplementation researchimplementation strategiesmethodologymethodsprimary care

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PMID40459100
PMCPMC12223990

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