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
Iterative Design and Pilot Implementation of a Tiered Coaching Model to Support Socio-Emotional Teaching Practices
October 21, 2021
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
Understanding implementation science from the standpoint of health organisation and management: An interdisciplinary exploration of selected theories, models, and frameworks
October 13, 2021
Journal of Health Organization and Management
✪ Project MIMIC (Maximizing Implementation of Motivational Incentives in Clinics): A cluster-randomized type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
October 12, 2021
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Integrated Behavioral Health Implementation Patterns in Primary Care Using the Cross-Model Framework: A Latent Class Analysis
September 16, 2021
Administration and Policy in Mental Health
✪ Factors Affecting the Initiation of a Shared Decision Making Program in Obstetric Practices
September 16, 2021
Healthcare
✪ Applying a systems lens to understand patient safety effectiveness in low-and-middle-income countries
September 15, 2021
BMJ Quality & Safety
✪ Exploring the impact of workforce turnover on the sustainability of evidence-based programs: A scoping review
September 13, 2021
Implementation Research and Practice
✪ Process evaluation of PrEP implementation in Kenya: adaptation of practices and contextual modifications in public HIV care clinics
September 8, 2021
Journal of the International AIDS Society
✪ Aligning implementation science with improvement practice: A call to action
September 8, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ Clinical leaders and providers’ perspectives on delivering medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder in Veteran Affairs’ facilities
September 6, 2021
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
✪ Population-based implementation of behavioral health detection and treatment into primary care: early data from New York state
September 6, 2021
BMC Health Services Research
Implementation of Goals of Care Communication Innovation Among Nursing Homes: A Multiple Case Study Design
August 26, 2021
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
✪ De-implementing and sustaining an intervention to eliminate nursing home resident bed and chair alarms: Interviews on leadership and staff perspectives
August 24, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ Low costs and opportunities for efficiency: a cost analysis of the first year of programmatic PrEP delivery in Kenya’s public sector
August 16, 2021
BMC Health Services Research
✪ Implementing Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A) in a Low-Income School
August 5, 2021
School Mental Health
✪ Structural readiness to implement community-wide mass drug administration programs for soil-transmitted helminth elimination: results from a three-country hybrid study
July 19, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ The Cognitive Walkthrough for Implementation Strategies (CWIS): a pragmatic method for assessing implementation strategy usability
July 17, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
School-Implemented Interventions for Preschool to High School Students with Autism: An Update on Recent Research
July 10, 2021
Current Psychiatry Reports
Design, implement, and diffuse scalable and sustainable solutions for dementia care
July 10, 2021
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
✪ The relationship between first-level leadership and inner-context and implementation outcomes in behavioral health: a scoping review
July 6, 2021
Implementation Science
Male Caregiver Barriers to HIV Index Case Testing of Untested Children
July 1, 2021
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
✪ Building Implementation Science Capacity in Academic Pharmacy: Report of the 2020-2021 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee
July 1, 2021
American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Expected Organizational Costs for Inserting Prevalence Information Into Lumbar Spine Imaging Reports
June 30, 2021
Journal of the American College of Radiology
✪ Development of an Asthma Home-Visit Training Program for Community Health Workers and Their Supervisors in Washington State
June 25, 2021
Frontiers in Public Health
✪ Perceived consequences of healthcare service decentralization on access, affordability and quality of care in Khartoum locality, Sudan
June 17, 2021
BMC Health Services Research
Provider Attitudes on Regionalization of Maternity Care: A National Survey
June 7, 2021
Maternal and Child Health Journal
Leveraging implementation science to increase the translation of deprescribing evidence into practice
June 6, 2021
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
✪ An implementation evaluation of “Zero Suicide” using normalization process theory to support high-quality care for patients at risk of suicide
May 24, 2021
Implementation Research and Practice
✪ Harmonizing evidence-based practice, implementation context, and implementation strategies with user-centered design: a case example in young adult cancer care
April 26, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ 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
April 20, 2021
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
✪ Prevention of cervical cancer through two HPV-based screen-and-treat implementation models in Malawi: Protocol for a cluster randomized feasibility trial
April 20, 2021
Pilot and Feasibility Studies
✪ Dissemination Science in School Mental Health: A Framework for Future Research
April 18, 2021
School Mental Health
✪ What Multilevel Interventions Do We Need to Increase the Colorectal Cancer Screening Rate to 80%?
April 1, 2021
Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
✪ Measuring characteristics of individuals: An updated systematic review of instruments’ psychometric properties
March 23, 2021
Implementation Research and Practice
Implementing Implementation Research: Teaching Implementation Research to HIV Researchers
March 11, 2021
Current HIV/AIDS Reports
Implementation and Scale-Up of Integrated Depression Care in South Africa: An Observational Implementation Research Protocol
March 11, 2021
Psychiatric Services
✪ Using a Clinical Workflow Analysis to Enhance eHealth Implementation Planning: Tutorial and Case Study
March 3, 2021
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
A Qualitative Examination of a School-Based Implementation of Computer-Assisted Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Child Anxiety
March 2, 2021
School Mental Health
Is necessity also the mother of implementation? COVID-19 and the implementation of evidence-based treatments for opioid use disorders
March 1, 2021
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
✪ National implementation of HPV vaccination programs in low-resource countries: Lessons, challenges, and future prospects
March 1, 2021
Preventive Medicine
Provider Perspectives on Implementing Shared Decision Making for PTSD Treatment in VA Primary Care
February 24, 2021
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
✪ Incorporating Method Dissatisfaction into Unmet Need for Contraception: Implications for Measurement and Impact
February 17, 2021
Studies in Family Planning
✪ Mapping the organizational readiness to change assessment to the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
February 13, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ Assessing the usability of complex psychosocial interventions: The Intervention Usability Scale
February 8, 2021
Implementation Research and Practice
Implementing Goals-of-Care Conversations: Lessons From High- and Low-Performing Sites From a VA National Initiative
February 1, 2021
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
✪ Implementation of a Telemental Health Training Program Across a Mental Health Department
January 22, 2021
Telemedicine Reports
✪ What’s the “secret sauce”? How implementation variation affects the success of colorectal cancer screening outreach
January 11, 2021
Implementation Science Communications
✪ 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
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