Research Excellence

University of Washington researchers, in collaboration with researchers around the world, are advancing the field of implementation science across many specialties and disciplines. Below you will find recent implementation science publications that include at least one University of Washington co-author.

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent publications first. Within each post, UW co-authors are indicated in bold.

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2021 Publications

✪ Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale

February 8, 2021
Implementation Research and Practice

A Theory-Informed Approach to Locally Managed Learning School Systems: Integrating Treatment Integrity and Youth Mental Health Outcome Data to Promote Youth Mental Health

February 5, 2021
School Mental Health

Identifying challenges and recommendations for advancing global mental health implementation research: A key informant study of the National Institute of Mental Health Scale-Up Hubs

January 24, 2021
Asian Journal of Psychiatry

✪ What’s the “secret sauce”? How implementation variation affects the success of colorectal cancer screening outreach

January 11, 2021
Implementation Science Communications

✪ Protocol for a hybrid type 2 cluster randomized trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and a pragmatic individual-level implementation strategy

January 7, 2021
Implementation Science

✪ Applying human-centered design to maximize acceptability, feasibility, and usability of mobile technology supervision in Kenya: A mixed methods pilot study protocol

January 7, 2021
Implementation Science Communications

2020 Publications

Design of a study to implement population-based risk assessment for hereditary cancer genetic testing in primary care

December 26, 2020
Contemporary Clinical Trials

✪ Ethics of Digital Mental Health During COVID-19: Crisis and Opportunities

December 22, 2020
JMIR Mental Health

Embedding school cultures and climates that promote evidence-based practice implementation for youth with autism: A qualitative study

December 11, 2020
Autism

Implementation strategies for digital mental health interventions in health care settings

November 30, 2020
American Psychological Association

Examining the Effects of a Brief, Group-Based Motivational Implementation Strategy on Mechanisms of Teacher Behavior Change

November 23, 2020
Prevention Science

Optimizing treatment cascades for mental healthcare in Mozambique: Preliminary effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH)

November 22, 2020
Health Policy and Planning

✪ Design of a care pathway for pharmacy-based PrEP delivery in Kenya: Results from a collaborative stakeholder consultation

November 12, 2020
BMC Health Services Research

✪ Identifying pathways for large-scale implementation of a school-based mental health programme in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A theory-driven approach

November 6, 2020
Health Policy and Planning

✪ How to evaluate the implementation of complex health programmes in low-income settings: the approach of the Gavi Full Country Evaluations

November 6, 2020
Health Policy and Planning

✪ Variant Classification Concordance using the ACMG-AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines across Nine Genomic Implementation Research Studies

November 5, 2020
American Journal of Human Genetics

✪ Unintended uses, meanings, and consequences: HIV self-testing among female sex workers in urban Uganda

November 2, 2020
AIDS Care

Responding to the Call: a New JGIM Area of Emphasis for Implementation and Quality Improvement Sciences

October 26, 2020
Journal of General Internal Medicine

Enhancing integrated psychosocial oncology through leveraging the oncology social worker’s role in collaborative care

October 23, 2020
Psycho‐Oncology

✪ Implementation Science to Advance Practice and Curricular Transformation: Report of the 2019-2020 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee

October 1, 2020
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

✪ Pharmacy delivery to expand the reach of PrEP in Africa

September 30, 2020
Journal of the International AIDS Society

✪ Implementing combined WHO mhGAP and adapted group interpersonal psychotherapy to address depression and mental health needs of pregnant adolescents in Kenyan primary health care settings (INSPIRE): a study protocol for pilot feasibility trial of the integrated intervention in LMIC settings

September 22, 2020
Pilot and Feasibility Studies

Implementation-as-Usual in Community-Based Organizations Providing Specialized Services to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed Methods Study

September 18, 2020
Administration and Policy in Mental Health

From research to international scale-up: stakeholder engagement essential in successful design, evaluation and implementation of paediatric HIV testing intervention

September 18, 2020
Health Policy and Planning

✪ Health plan adaptations to a mailed outreach program for colorectal cancer screening among Medicaid and Medicare enrollees: the BeneFIT study

September 15, 2020
Implementation Science

✪ Implementation Science to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

September 2, 2020
Frontiers in Public Health

✪ Measuring readiness for implementation: A systematic review of measures’ psychometric and pragmatic properties

August 28, 2020
Implementation Research and Practice

✪ Measuring implementation outcomes: An updated systematic review of measures’ psychometric properties

August 28, 2020
Implementation Research and Practice

✪ Implementation of Home-Based Telemental Health in a Large Child Psychiatry Department During the COVID-19 Crisis

August 28, 2020
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

✪ Defining gaps in pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery for pregnant and post-partum women in high-burden settings using an implementation science framework

August 2, 2020
The Lancet: HIV

✪ Practice facilitation to implement alcohol-related care in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics: a study protocol

July 31, 2020
Implementation Science Communications

What Gets Measured Gets Done: How Mental Health Agencies can Leverage Measurement-Based Care for Better Patient Care, Clinician Supports, and Organizational Goals

July 12, 2020
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Integration of mental health screening and treatment into cystic fibrosis clinics: Evaluation of initial implementation in 84 programs across the United States

July 10, 2020
Pediatric Pulmonology

✪ Implementation Determinants and Outcomes of a Technology-Enabled Service Targeting Suicide Risk in High Schools: Mixed Methods Study

July 2, 2020
JMIR Mental Health

✪ An implementation study of oral and blood‐based HIV self‐testing and linkage to care among men in rural and peri‐urban KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa

June 26, 2020
Journal of the International AIDS Society

“We understand our community”: Implementation of the Healthy Eating Healthy Aging program among community-based organizations

June 25, 2020
Translational Behavioral Medicine

✪ Community-based postpartum contraceptive counseling in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods evaluation

June 17, 2020
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HIV Testing and Assisted Partner Notification Services, Western Kenya

June 2, 2020
AIDS and Behavior

Organizational readiness assessment in acute and long-term care has important implications for antibiotic stewardship for asymptomatic bacteriuria

May 10, 2020
American Journal of Infection Control

Use of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) to Characterize Healthcare Workers’ Perspectives on Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing

May 1, 2020
JAIDS

✪ A phased approach to implementing the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI‐RADS) in low‐income and middle‐income countries

April 29, 2020
Cancer

✪ The role of dissemination and implementation science in global breast cancer control programs: Frameworks, methods, and examples

April 29, 2020
Cancer

✪ Situational analysis of breast health care systems: Why context matters

April 29, 2020
Cancer

✪ Breast cancer treatment: A phased approach to implementation

April 29, 2020
Cancer

✪ The Breast Health Global Initiative 2018 Global Summit on Improving Breast Healthcare Through Resource‐Stratified Phased Implementation: Methods and overview

April 29, 2020
Cancer

✪ Breast cancer early detection: A phased approach to implementation

April 29, 2020
Cancer

Targeted Assessment and Context-Tailored Implementation of Change Strategies (TACTICS) to increase evidence based psychotherapy in military behavioral health clinics: Design of a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge implementation study

April 21, 2020
Contemporary Clinical Trials

✪ A systematic review of empirical studies examining mechanisms of implementation in health

April 16, 2020
Implementation Science

Authors’ Response to: Novel Data Linkage for Quality Improvement in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

April 1, 2020
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

✪ A targeted systematic review of cost analyses for implementation of simulation-based education in healthcare

March 19, 2020
SAGE Open Medicine

Race and Equity in Statewide Implementation Programs: An Application of the Policy Ecology of Implementation Framework

March 19, 2020
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

✪ HIV-exposed infant follow-up in Mozambique: Formative research findings for the design of a cluster randomized controlled trial to improve testing and ART initiation

March 18, 2020
BMC Health Services Research

✪ Evaluating the implementation of cervical cancer screening programs in low-resource settings globally: a systematized review

March 17, 2020
Cancer Causes & Control

✪ Evaluating and optimizing the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) for use in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

March 12, 2020
Implementation Science

✪ Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize the hypertension diagnosis and care cascade for PLHIV individuals (SAIA-HTN): A hybrid type III cluster randomized trial

March 6, 2020
Implementation Science

✪ Implementation outcomes and strategies for depression interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

March 2, 2020
Global Mental Health

ImPlementation REsearCh to DEvelop Interventions for People Living with HIV (the PRECluDE consortium): Combatting chronic disease comorbidities in HIV populations through implementation research

March 1, 2020
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

The impact of localized implementation: Determining the cost-effectiveness of HIV prevention and care interventions across six United States cities

March 1, 2020
AIDS

✪ Responding to the challenge of Adolescent Perinatal Depression (RAPiD): Protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid trial of psychosocial intervention in primary maternal care

February 27, 2020
Trials

✪ Aligning implementation and user-centered design strategies to enhance the impact of health services: results from a concept mapping study

February 26, 2020
Implementation Science Communications

✪ Study protocol for evaluating Six Building Blocks for opioid management implementation in primary care practices

February 26, 2020
Implementation Science Communications

✪ First-year implementation of mailed FIT colorectal cancer screening programs in two Medicaid/Medicare health insurance plans: qualitative learnings from health plan quality improvement staff and leaders

February 21, 2020
BMC Health Services Research

Development of a Wellness Committee Implementation Index for Workplace Health Promotion Programs in Small Businesses

February 20, 2020
American Journal of Health Promotion

Research translation for military and veteran health: research, practice, policy

February 11, 2020
Translational Behavioral Medicine

Clinical Hypnosis for Chronic Pain in Outpatient Integrative Medicine: An Implementation and Training Model

February 4, 2020
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Validation of a counseling guide for adherence to antiretroviral therapy using implementation science

February 3, 2020
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Two Medicaid health plans’ models and motivations for improving colorectal cancer screening rates

February 1, 2020
Translational Behavioral Medicine

De-implementing Inhaled Corticosteroids to Improve Care and Safety in COPD Treatment: Primary Care Providers’ Perspectives

January 31, 2020
Journal of General Internal Medicine

✪ Longitudinal Remote Coaching for Implementation of Perinatal Collaborative Care: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

January 30, 2020
Psychiatric Services

✪ Addressing low-value pharmacological prescribing in primary prevention of CVD through a structured evidence-based and theory-informed process for the design and testing of de-implementation strategies: the DE-imFAR study

January 22, 2020
Implementation Science

Effectiveness of Task-Shifted Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children Who Experienced Parental Death and Posttraumatic Stress in Kenya and Tanzania

January 22, 2020
JAMA Psychiatry

Organizational readiness to implement population‐based screening and genetic service delivery for hereditary cancer prevention and control

January 22, 2020
Journal of Genetic Counseling

✪ Barriers and facilitators to implementing changes in opioid prescribing in rural primary care clinics

January 20, 2020
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

✪ Measuring fidelity, feasibility, costs: an implementation evaluation of a cluster-controlled trial of group antenatal care in rural Nepal

January 17, 2020
Reproductive Health

A Pharmacist-Led, Same-Day, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation Program to Increase PrEP Uptake and Decrease Time to PrEP Initiation

January 14, 2020
AIDS Patient Care and STDs

✪ Advancing successful implementation of task-shifted mental health care in low-resource settings (BASIC): Protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial

January 8, 2020
BMC Psychiatry

Evaluating a Train-the-Trainer Approach for Increasing EBP Training Capacity in Community Mental Health

January 2, 2020
The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

2019 Publications

2018 Publications

2017 Publications

2016 Publications