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ReviewFuture healthcare journal2025

Creating system-wide change in medicine: The role of implementation science in achieving scale and adoption.

Simon Barry, Chris Davies

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Review in Future healthcare journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Simon BarrySchool of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Chris DaviesThe Institute of Clinical Science and Technology, Cardiff, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delivering meaningful change in healthcare is less about new discoveries and more about ensuring adoption at scale of what is already known to work. Implementation science (IS) studies the methods that support systematic uptake of evidence-based practices into routine care. Yet traditional strategies - like policy mandates, staff training alone, or the passive spread of information - often fail to deliver sustained change. This paper introduces the foundational principles of IS, critiques conventional approaches, and shares lessons learned from national-scale digital implementation efforts in Wales. Key IS enablers, including leadership, stakeholder alignment, readiness and feedback systems, are described in practical terms. We aim to make IS accessible for healthcare leaders and clinicians seeking to reduce variation and embed innovation at scale.

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EnablersImplementation frameworkImplementation science

Identifiers

PMID40896305
PMCPMC12395526

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