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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
Iterative Design and Pilot Implementation of a Tiered Coaching Model to Support Socio-Emotional Teaching Practices
Understanding implementation science from the standpoint of health organisation and management: An interdisciplinary exploration of selected theories, models, and frameworks
✪ Project MIMIC (Maximizing Implementation of Motivational Incentives in Clinics): A cluster-randomized type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
Integrated Behavioral Health Implementation Patterns in Primary Care Using the Cross-Model Framework: A Latent Class Analysis
✪ Factors Affecting the Initiation of a Shared Decision Making Program in Obstetric Practices
✪ Applying a systems lens to understand patient safety effectiveness in low-and-middle-income countries
✪ Exploring the impact of workforce turnover on the sustainability of evidence-based programs: A scoping review
✪ Process evaluation of PrEP implementation in Kenya: adaptation of practices and contextual modifications in public HIV care clinics
✪ Aligning implementation science with improvement practice: A call to action
✪ Clinical leaders and providers’ perspectives on delivering medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder in Veteran Affairs’ facilities
✪ Population-based implementation of behavioral health detection and treatment into primary care: early data from New York state
Implementation of Goals of Care Communication Innovation Among Nursing Homes: A Multiple Case Study Design
✪ De-implementing and sustaining an intervention to eliminate nursing home resident bed and chair alarms: Interviews on leadership and staff perspectives
✪ Low costs and opportunities for efficiency: a cost analysis of the first year of programmatic PrEP delivery in Kenya’s public sector
✪ Implementing Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) in a Low-Income School
✪ Structural readiness to implement community-wide mass drug administration programs for soil-transmitted helminth elimination: results from a three-country hybrid study
✪ The Cognitive Walkthrough for Implementation Strategies (CWIS): a pragmatic method for assessing implementation strategy usability
School-Implemented Interventions for Preschool to High School Students with Autism: An Update on Recent Research
Design, implement, and diffuse scalable and sustainable solutions for dementia care
✪ The relationship between first-level leadership and inner-context and implementation outcomes in behavioral health: a scoping review
Male Caregiver Barriers to HIV Index Case Testing of Untested Children
✪ Building Implementation Science Capacity in Academic Pharmacy: Report of the 2020-2021 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee
Expected Organizational Costs for Inserting Prevalence Information Into Lumbar Spine Imaging Reports
✪ Development of an Asthma Home-Visit Training Program for Community Health Workers and Their Supervisors in Washington State
✪ Perceived consequences of healthcare service decentralization on access, affordability and quality of care in Khartoum locality, Sudan
Provider Attitudes on Regionalization of Maternity Care: A National Survey
Leveraging implementation science to increase the translation of deprescribing evidence into practice
✪ An implementation evaluation of “Zero Suicide” using normalization process theory to support high-quality care for patients at risk of suicide
✪ Harmonizing evidence-based practice, implementation context, and implementation strategies with user-centered design: a case example in young adult cancer care
✪ Is telemedicine the answer to rural expansion of medication treatment for opioid use disorder? Early experiences in the feasibility study phase of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Trial
✪ Prevention of cervical cancer through two HPV-based screen-and-treat implementation models in Malawi: Protocol for a cluster randomized feasibility trial
✪ Dissemination Science in School Mental Health: A Framework for Future Research
✪ What Multilevel Interventions Do We Need to Increase the Colorectal Cancer Screening Rate to 80%?
✪ Measuring characteristics of individuals: An updated systematic review of instruments’ psychometric properties
Implementing Implementation Research: Teaching Implementation Research to HIV Researchers
Implementation and Scale-Up of Integrated Depression Care in South Africa: An Observational Implementation Research Protocol
✪ Using a Clinical Workflow Analysis to Enhance eHealth Implementation Planning: Tutorial and Case Study
A Qualitative Examination of a School-Based Implementation of Computer-Assisted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Child Anxiety
Is necessity also the mother of implementation? COVID-19 and the implementation of evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorders
✪ National implementation of HPV vaccination programs in low-resource countries: Lessons, challenges, and future prospects
Provider Perspectives on Implementing Shared Decision Making for PTSD Treatment in VA Primary Care
✪ Incorporating Method Dissatisfaction into Unmet Need for Contraception: Implications for Measurement and Impact
✪ Mapping the organizational readiness to change assessment to the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
✪ Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale
Implementing Goals-of-Care Conversations: Lessons From High- and Low-Performing Sites From a VA National Initiative
✪ Implementation of a Telemental Health Training Program Across a Mental Health Department
✪ What’s the “secret sauce”? How implementation variation affects the success of colorectal cancer screening outreach
✪ Applying human-centered design to maximize acceptability, feasibility, and usability of mobile technology supervision in Kenya: A mixed methods pilot study protocol
2020 Publications
Design of a study to implement population-based risk assessment for hereditary cancer genetic testing in primary care
✪ Ethics of Digital Mental Health During COVID-19: Crisis and Opportunities
Implementation strategies for digital mental health interventions in health care settings
Examining the Effects of a Brief, Group-Based Motivational Implementation Strategy on Mechanisms of Teacher Behavior Change
Optimizing treatment cascades for mental healthcare in Mozambique: Preliminary effectiveness of the Systems Analysis and Improvement Approach for Mental Health (SAIA-MH)
✪ Design of a care pathway for pharmacy-based PrEP delivery in Kenya: Results from a collaborative stakeholder consultation
✪ Identifying pathways for large-scale implementation of a school-based mental health programme in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: A theory-driven approach
✪ How to evaluate the implementation of complex health programmes in low-income settings: the approach of the Gavi Full Country Evaluations
✪ Variant Classification Concordance using the ACMG-AMP Variant Interpretation Guidelines across Nine Genomic Implementation Research Studies
✪ Unintended uses, meanings, and consequences: HIV self-testing among female sex workers in urban Uganda
Responding to the Call: a New JGIM Area of Emphasis for Implementation and Quality Improvement Sciences
Enhancing integrated psychosocial oncology through leveraging the oncology social worker’s role in collaborative care
✪ Implementation Science to Advance Practice and Curricular Transformation: Report of the 2019-2020 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee
✪ Pharmacy delivery to expand the reach of PrEP in Africa
✪ 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
Implementation-as-Usual in Community-Based Organizations Providing Specialized Services to Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Mixed Methods Study
From research to international scale-up: stakeholder engagement essential in successful design, evaluation and implementation of paediatric HIV testing intervention
✪ Health plan adaptations to a mailed outreach program for colorectal cancer screening among Medicaid and Medicare enrollees: the BeneFIT study
✪ Implementation Science to Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
✪ Measuring readiness for implementation: A systematic review of measures’ psychometric and pragmatic properties
✪ Measuring implementation outcomes: An updated systematic review of measures’ psychometric properties
✪ Implementation of Home-Based Telemental Health in a Large Child Psychiatry Department During the COVID-19 Crisis
✪ Practice facilitation to implement alcohol-related care in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics: a study protocol
What Gets Measured Gets Done: How Mental Health Agencies can Leverage Measurement-Based Care for Better Patient Care, Clinician Supports, and Organizational Goals
✪ 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
“We understand our community”: Implementation of the Healthy Eating Healthy Aging program among community-based organizations
✪ Community-based postpartum contraceptive counseling in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods evaluation
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on HIV Testing and Assisted Partner Notification Services, Western Kenya
Organizational readiness assessment in acute and long-term care has important implications for antibiotic stewardship for asymptomatic bacteriuria
✪ A systematic review of empirical studies examining mechanisms of implementation in health
Authors’ Response to: Novel Data Linkage for Quality Improvement in Palliative and End-of-Life Care
✪ A targeted systematic review of cost analyses for implementation of simulation-based education in healthcare
Race and Equity in Statewide Implementation Programs: An Application of the Policy Ecology of Implementation Framework
✪ 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
✪ Evaluating the implementation of cervical cancer screening programs in low-resource settings globally: a systematized review
✪ Implementation outcomes and strategies for depression interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
ImPlementation REsearCh to DEvelop Interventions for People Living with HIV (the PRECluDE consortium): Combatting chronic disease comorbidities in HIV populations through implementation research
✪ Aligning implementation and user-centered design strategies to enhance the impact of health services: results from a concept mapping study
✪ Study protocol for evaluating Six Building Blocks for opioid management implementation in primary care practices
Development of a Wellness Committee Implementation Index for Workplace Health Promotion Programs in Small Businesses
Research translation for military and veteran health: research, practice, policy
Clinical Hypnosis for Chronic Pain in Outpatient Integrative Medicine: An Implementation and Training Model
Validation of a counseling guide for adherence to antiretroviral therapy using implementation science
Two Medicaid health plans’ models and motivations for improving colorectal cancer screening rates
De-implementing Inhaled Corticosteroids to Improve Care and Safety in COPD Treatment: Primary Care Providers’ Perspectives
✪ Longitudinal Remote Coaching for Implementation of Perinatal Collaborative Care: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Organizational readiness to implement population‐based screening and genetic service delivery for hereditary cancer prevention and control
✪ Barriers and facilitators to implementing changes in opioid prescribing in rural primary care clinics
✪ Measuring fidelity, feasibility, costs: an implementation evaluation of a cluster-controlled trial of group antenatal care in rural Nepal
A Pharmacist-Led, Same-Day, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Initiation Program to Increase PrEP Uptake and Decrease Time to PrEP Initiation
Evaluating a Train-the-Trainer Approach for Increasing EBP Training Capacity in Community Mental Health
2019 Publications
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2018 Publications
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September 4, 2018 9:35 am
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August 22, 2018 9:07 am
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August 15, 2018 11:50 am
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August 6, 2018 12:34 pm
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July 28, 2018 8:21 am
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July 12, 2018 10:24 am
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2017 Publications
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2016 Publications
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