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TIDIRC: Where you go to learn, meet new collaborators, and enhance your science
November 27, 2019 12:09 pm
We asked Dr. McKenna Eastment (Departments of Medicine, Allergies & Infectious Diseases) to share her experience attending TIDIRC 2019 (the Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Cancer) with us. She generously agreed to do so, and is our guest author this week. Guest author: Dr. McKenna Eastment, MD, MPH TIDIRC 2019: Where you go to learn, meet new collaborators, and enhance your science I had the incredible opportunity to participate in TIDIRC 2019—the Training Institute for Dissemination…
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Implementation climate matters: Evidence from three new studies
November 9, 2018 1:59 pm
Implementation climate is a construct that figures prominently in the inner setting domain of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). Three recently published articles provide quantitative evidence that implementation climate matters. Moreover, its contribution to implementation outcomes differs from the contribution of other organizational climate. Author: Dr. Bryan J. Weiner What is Implementation Climate? In 1996, Katherine Klein and Joanne Sorra developed the construct of implementation climate based on an extensive review of the determinants of effective implementation of…
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An introduction to stakeholder and policy analysis
November 1, 2018 10:19 am
Authors: Dr. Arianna Rubin Means & Dr. Brad Wagenaar For example, a programmatic action that focuses on engaging with women’s groups to change local perceptions around HPV vaccination is not, by itself, a public policy change, as it does not necessarily have to be adopted by a governmental entity and does not touch the political process. Similarly, for road traffic accidents, training emergency providers in better treatment or transport of trauma patients also does not necessarily intersect with the government…
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An introduction to quality improvement
October 24, 2018 9:23 am
Authors: Arianna Means, PhD & Bradley Wagenaar, PhD When identifying a change concept to target, it can be tempting to identify those more akin to traditional research study questions, such as exploring how to design valid diabetes clinical screening guidelines. Instead, a QI approach change concept could be focused on optimizing a specific aspect of the delivery of these evidence-based diabetes guidelines. There is a bit of an art to defining a change concept that is neither too general nor…