Implementation Science Resources from CRISP

Updated December 2018

Implementation science: Definition and role in advancing evidence-based practice

• Active Implementation (AI) Hub: The AI Hub is developed and maintained by the State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center (SISEP) and the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute. Content is added and updated regularly. For more information, contact sisep@unc.edu.
• CRISP eBooks: A project by the Adult and Child Center for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) presented by the Colorado Research and Implementation Science Program (CRISP)
• Dissemination and Implementation: Resources from the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
• Webinars on a range of dissemination and implementation topics: National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences

Key concepts for understanding implementation science

• Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): This site is created for individuals considering using the CFIR to evaluate an implementation or design an implementation study
• NIH Fogarty International Center, Toolkit Part 1: Implementation Science Methodologies and Frameworks: Tools to advance implementation science
• The RE-AIM framework: Reach your intended target population; Efficacy or effectiveness; Adoption by target staff, settings, or institutions; Implementation consistency, costs, and adaptations made during delivery; Maintance of intervention effects in individuals and settings over time
• Normalization Process Theory: A sociological toolkit that we can use to understand the dynamics of implementing, embedding, and integrating some new technology or complex intervention
• “The need for a complex systems model of evidence for public health”: Viewpoint article by Harry Rutter et al. for The Lancet, December 2017
• Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Designs: Combining Elements of Clinical Effectiveness and Implementation Research to Enhance Public Health Impact. Article by Geoffrey Curran et al. for Medical Care, March 2012

Domains and methodologies that enhance or overlap with implementation science

• Mixed-methods:
  • Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences: National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
  • Why Mixed Methods?: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences
  • Using Qualitative Methods in Healthcare Research: A Comprehensive Guide for Designing, Writing, Reviewing and Reporting Qualitative Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Pragmatic Trials:
  • CRISP eBooks: A project by the Adult and Child Center for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS) presented by the Colorado Research and Implementation Science Program (CRISP)

More resources on ASHAWire

• “Leveraging Maximum Impact from Clinical Research“: In this article from the July 2016 issue of ASHA’s Access Academics and Research, authors Natalie F. Douglas and Wenonah Campbell describe and provide examples of the key differences between implementation science research—which investigates how to integrate research findings and evidence into practice—and intervention research.
• Supplement: Implementation Science: In December 2015, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research published a supplement focused on implementation science.
  • Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Implementation Science, Lesley B. Olswang and Patricia A. Prelock
  • Implementation Science: Buzzword or Game Changer?, Natalie F. Douglas, Wenonah N. Campbell, and Jacqueline J. Hinckley
  • Developing a Phonological Awareness Curriculum: Reflections on an Implementation Science Framework, Howard Goldstein and Arnold Olszewski
  • Designing Caregiver-Implemented Shared-Reading Interventions to Overcome Implementation Barriers, Laura M. Justice, Jessica R. Logan, and Laura Damschroder
  • Developing Brain Injury Interventions on Both Ends of the Treatment Continuum Depends Upon Early Research Partnerships and Feasibility Studies, McKay Moore Sohlberg, Priya Kucheria, Stephen Fickas, and Shari L. Wade
  • Practice-Based Research: Another Pathway for Closing the Research–Practice Gap, Pamela J. Crooke and Lesley B. Olswang

Funding opportunities

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Center for Implementation Practice and Research Support (CIPRS), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)
• Tips for getting your dissemination and implementation research funded, Adult and Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research and Delivery Science (ACCORDS), University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado

Organizations, trainings, and conferences

• AcademyHealth holds an Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation
• Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH)
• Global Implementation Initiative
• Society for Implementation Research Collaboration

Journals

• Implementation Science (BioMed Central)

Books

• Brownson, R. C., Colditz, G. A., & Proctor, E. K. (Eds.). (2012). Dissemination and implementation research in health: Translating science to practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Seminal articles (Open Access)

• Proctor, E. K., Powell, B. J., Baumann, A. A., Hamilton, A. M., & Santens, R. L. (2012). Writing implementation research grant proposals: Ten key ingredients. Implementation Science, 7, 96. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-7-96
• Brownson, R. C., Colditz, G. A., Dobbins, M., Emmons, K. M., Kerner, J. F., Padek, M., … Stange, K. C. (2015). Concocting that magic elixir: Successful grant application writing in dissemination and implementation research. Clinical and Translational Science, 8, 710–716. https://doi.org/10.1111/cts.12356
• Tinkle, M., Kimball, R., Haozous, E. A., Shuster, G., & Meize-Grochowski, R. (2013). Dissemination and implementation research funded by the US National Institutes of Health, 2005–2012. Nursing Research and Practice, 2013, Article ID 909606. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/909606