Towards an Implementation-STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) for improving health and social care services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The implementation science literature acknowledges a need for engagement of key stakeholders when designing, delivering and evaluating implementation work. To date, the literature reports minimal or focused stakeholder engagement, where stakeholders are engaged in either barrier identification and/or barrier prioritisation. This paper begins to answer calls from the literature for the development of tools and guidance to support comprehensive stakeholder engagement in implementation research and practice. The paper describes the systematic development of the Implementation-STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM) in the context of an international, large-scale empirical implementation study (ImpleMentAll) aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a tailored implementation to

SUBMITTER: Potthoff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10485327 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature