Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications: a refreshed description of the journals' scope and expectations.

This editorial provides a comprehensive consolidated overview of the scope and expectations of Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications. We remain most interested in rigorous empirical studies of the implementation of evidence-based healthcare practices (including interventio...

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Publicado en:Implementation Science Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9
Autores principales: Wensing, Michel, Sales, Anne, Wilson, Paul, Armstrong, Rebecca, Kislov, Roman, Rankin, Nicole M., Ramaswamy, Rohit, Xu, Dong, Xu, Dong Roman
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: BioMed Central 12/4/2021
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Sumario:This editorial provides a comprehensive consolidated overview of the scope and expectations of Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications. We remain most interested in rigorous empirical studies of the implementation of evidence-based healthcare practices (including interventions, technologies, and policies) and the de-implementation of practices that are demonstrated to be of low or no benefit. Implementation strategies (e.g., continuing professional education, organizational changes, and financial incentives to enhance the uptake of evidence-based practices) are of central interest to the journals. We see the field as large and complex, with a wide literature that is published in many venues. We urge people for whom it is new to spend some time reading the existing literature, and learning the scope of the work that has already been done, and published, in our journals and in an increasing number of other journals in the field.