Advancing mechanisms of implementation to accelerate sustainable evidence-based practice integration: protocol for generating a research agenda.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mechanisms explain how implementation strategies work. Implementation research requires careful operationalisation and empirical study of the causal pathway(s) by which strategies effect change, and factors that may amplify or weaken their effects. Understanding mechanisms is critically important to replicate findings, learn from negative studies or adapt an implementation strategy developed in one setting to another. Without understanding implementation mechanisms, it is difficult to design strategies to produce expected effects across contexts, which may have disproportionate effects on settings in which priority populations receive care. This manuscript outlines the protocol for an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality-funded initiative to: (1) establish

SUBMITTER: Lewis CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8524292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature