Birken, Sarah A. Currie, Graeme
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Implementation Science
Middle-level managers (MLMs; i.e., healthcare professionals who may fill roles including obtaining and diffusing information, adapting information and the intervention, mediating between strategy and day-to-day activities, and selling intervention implementation) have been identified as having significant influence on evidence-based practice (EBP) ...
Miller, Christopher J. Barnett, Miya L. Baumann, Ana A. Gutner, Cassidy A. Wiltsey-Stirman, Shannon
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BackgroundImplementation strategies are necessary to ensure that evidence-based practices are successfully incorporated into routine clinical practice. Such strategies, however, are frequently modified to fit local populations, settings, and contexts. While such modifications can be crucial to implementation success, the literature on documenting a...
Lengnick-Hall, Rebecca Stadnick, Nicole A. Dickson, Kelsey S. Moullin, Joanna C. Aarons, Gregory A.
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Implementation Science
BackgroundBridging factors are relational ties, formal arrangements, and processes that connect outer system and inner organizational contexts. They may be critical drivers of evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation and sustainment. Yet, the complex interplay between outer and inner contexts is often not considered. Bridging factors were recen...
Springer, Mellanie V. Sales, Anne E. Islam, Nishat McBride, A. Camille Landis-Lewis, Zach Tupper, Michael Corches, Casey L. Robles, Maria Cielito Skolarus, Lesli E.
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BackgroundAudit and feedback (A&F) is a widely used implementation strategy. Understanding mechanisms of action of A&F increases the likelihood that the strategy will lead to implementation of an evidence-based practice. We therefore sought to understand one hospital’s experience selecting and implementing an A&F intervention, to determine the impl...
Walunas, Theresa L. Ye, Jiancheng Bannon, Jennifer Wang, Ann Kho, Abel N. Smith, Justin D. Soulakis, Nicholas
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Implementation Science
BackgroundPractice facilitation is a multicomponent implementation strategy used to improve the capacity for practices to address care quality and implementation gaps. We sought to assess whether practice facilitators use of coaching strategies aimed at improving self-sufficiency were associated with improved implementation of quality improvement (...
Goulao, Beatriz Scott, Claire Black, Irene Clarkson, Jan McArthur, Lee Ramsay, Craig Young, Linda Duncan, Eilidh
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Implementation Science
BackgroundAntimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health and patient safety. Overuse of antibiotics has aggravated this issue. Around 7% of all antibiotics in Scotland are prescribed by dentists. Audit and feedback has been shown to decrease these prescriptions, but there is evidence that dentists still prescribe...
Johnson, Jennifer E. Viglione, Jill Ramezani, Niloofar Cuellar, Alison E. Hailemariam, Maji Rosen, Rochelle Breno, Alex Taxman, Faye S.
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Implementation Science
BackgroundThe criminal justice system is the largest provider of mental health services in the USA. Many jurisdictions are interested in reducing the use of the justice system for mental health problems. The national Stepping Up Initiative helps agencies within counties work together more effectively to reduce the number of individuals with mental ...
Minian, Nadia Ahad, Sheleza Ivanova, Anna Veldhuizen, Scott Zawertailo, Laurie Ravindran, Arun de Oliveira, Claire Baliunas, Dolly Mulder, Carol Bolbocean, Corneliu
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BackgroundKnowledge brokering is a knowledge translation approach that has been gaining popularity in Canada although the effectiveness is unknown. This study evaluated the effectiveness of generalised, exclusively email-based prompts versus a personalised remote knowledge broker for delivering evidence-based mood management interventions within an...
Brownson, Ross C. Kumanyika, Shiriki K. Kreuter, Matthew W. Haire-Joshu, Debra
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Implementation Science
BackgroundThere is growing urgency to tackle issues of equity and justice in the USA and worldwide. Health equity, a framing that moves away from a deficit mindset of what society is doing poorly (disparities) to one that is positive about what society can achieve, is becoming more prominent in health research that uses implementation science appro...
Malone, Sara McKay, Virginia R. Krucylak, Christina Powell, Byron J. Liu, Jingxia Terrill, Cindy Saito, Jacqueline M. Rangel, Shawn J. Newland, Jason G.
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BackgroundAntibiotic-resistant infections have become a public health crisis that is driven by the inappropriate use of antibiotics. In the USA, antibiotic stewardship programs (ASP) have been established and are required by regulatory agencies to help combat the problem of antibiotic resistance. Post-operative antibiotic use in surgical cases deem...
