Centuries of experience make it clear that establishing the effectiveness of a clinical
innovation is not sufficient to guarantee its uptake into routine use. The relatively new field of …

Just as there is a robust science that supports development and rigorous testing of clinical
innovations, the emerging field of implementation science is developing new theory-based …

This editorial summarises what is known about accelerating the transfer of discoveries in the
health sciences into implementation in routine clinical practice. Three phases are described …

Background The movement of evidence-based practices (EBPs) into routine clinical usage
is not spontaneous, but requires focused efforts. The field of implementation science has …

Efforts to identify, develop, refine, and test strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-
based treatments have been prioritized in order to improve the quality of health and mental …

Implementation science is the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research
findings and other evidence-based practices in routine care, with the goal of improving the …

There is a growing consensus that the transfer of knowledge from biomedical discoveries
into patient and public benefit should be accelerated. At the same time there is a persistent …

Among the many domains and sectors studied by implementation researchers during the
past 30–40 years, the variety of settings and volume of implementation science activity in the …

Abstract Background The Implementation Research Institute (IRI) provides two years of
training in mental health implementation science for 10 new fellows each year. The IRI is …

This editorial discusses the implications of two important trendsinhealthresearchforenhancingthedesi…
, evaluation, and reporting of applied research and evaluation studies. The first trendisthegapbetweenresearchfindingsand …