BookBryan J. Weiner, Cara C. Lewis, Kenneth Sherr, editors.
Summary: "Implementation science seeks to close the research-to-practice gap by identifying the barriers that impede the adoption, implementation, sustainability, and scale-up of evidence-based health interventions, and by identifying the best methods for overcoming those barriers. As implementation scientists, our aspiration for the field is to generate useful and usable scientific knowledge to improve the practice of implementation. Put differently, we envision the field of implementation science producing the knowledge and tools to support the evidence-based implementation of evidence-based health interventions. The rapid growth of implementation science as a research enterprise, however, has given rise to concerns that we and other implementation scientists share that implementation science itself will replicate the research-to-practice gap that the field was intended to address. This book represents the first systematic attempt by leading implementation researchers to "translate" implementation science for implementation practitioners by making accessible and practical the wealth of scientific knowledge and associated tools that implementation science has produced"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introducing implementation science / Bryan J. Weiner, Cara C. Lewis, and Kenneth Sherr
Assessing the practice (know-do) gap / Christine Fahim and Sharon E. Straus
Selecting evidence-based interventions to reduce practice gaps / Jennifer Leeman, Mary Wangen, and Cam Escoffery
Adaptation of evidence-based interventions / Heidi La Bash, Fiona C. Thomas, and Shannon Wiltsey Stirman
Identifying barriers and facilitators for implementation in diverse settings / Maria E. Fernandez, Laura Damschroder, and Bijal Balasubramanian
Engaging stakeholders / Melanie Pellechhia, Kimberly T. Arnold, Liza Tomczuk, and Rinad S. Beidas
Creating a structure for implementation : building implementation teams and developing implementation plans / Kevin Fiori, Hueiming Liu, and Lisa R. Hirschhorn
How to implement an evidence-based intervention / Ryan R. Singh and Lisa Saldana
An introduction to evaluation and learning in implementation science / Arianna Rubin Means, Bradley H. Wagenaar, Sarah J. Masyuko, and Anjuli D. Wagner
Disseminating information about evidence-based interventions / Jonathan Purtle, Margaret E. Crane, Katherine L. Nelson, and Ross C. Brownson
Scaling up evidence-based interventions / Ruth Simmons, Peter Fajans, and Laura Ghiron
Sustaining evidence-based interventions / Rachel C. Shelton and Nicole Nathan
De-implementing practices / Christian D. Helfrich
Implementation science in policy / Heather Bullock, Mile Wilson, and John Lavis.