Who uses implementation science?
Implementation science can be used to close the research to practice gap in any health and human services setting
...Who doesn't use implementation science?
Implementation science can be employed by any discipline focused on improving human health and well-being through the delivery of services and evidence-based practices intended to accomplish this goal.
This includes fields such as medicine, psychology, nursing, public health, social work, and social sciences. Practitioners, researchers, and healthcare managers from these disciplines employ implementation science to ensure that evidence-based practices and interventions are effectively integrated into routine practice and policy. Additionally, implementation science is relevant in areas like business, public policy, and engineering, where the goal is to enhance the adoption and sustainability of innovative practices. By systematically addressing barriers to the uptake of proven interventions, implementation science helps bridge the gap between research and practice, ultimately aiming to improve outcomes on a population level.
The focal areas listed in the tabs of the accordion below include a broad array of fields and disciplines that use and produce implementation science at the University of Washington. Under each tab you will find a selection of both open-access and subscription-required articles highlighting the relevance, state, or use of implementation science in that discipline.
Be sure to explore what fields other than your own are doing - as our colleague at Washington University (St. Louis) Dr. Beth Prusaczyk reminds us, under the Dissemination & Implementation science big tent, everyone benefits.
The implementation science big tent is health condition agnostic. Including research from fields or health conditions outside one's own focus can help reduce the gap between research-based implementation science and its application to real-world change.
Open Access articles are marked with the ✪ symbol and free online resources are marked with the 💻 symbol. Some articles will require a journal subscription to access the full text.
The Intersection of Implementation Science and Behavioral Health
✪ Capacity-building and training opportunities for implementation science in mental health
✪ Assessing Implementation Strategy Reporting in the Mental Health Literature: A Narrative Review
✪ Implementation science: What is it and why should I care?
Advancing Research Practice Partnerships to Achieve Population-Level Mental Health Outcomes
✪ A Review of Implementation Outcome Measures of School‐Based Physical Activity Interventions
💻 VIDEO: Implementing a Parenting Curriculum Using Implementation Science
✪ State of the science on implementation research in early child development and future directions
✪ The sustainability of public health interventions in schools: a systematic review
✪ Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide
✪ Reporting of context and implementation in studies of global health interventions: a pilot study
✪ Need for more and better implementation science in global health
✪ A synthesis of implementation science frameworks and application to global health gaps
Nursing Implementation Science: How Evidence‐Based Nursing Requires Evidence‐Based Implementation
Unpacking action research and implementation science: Implications for nursing
Embracing Implementation Science: A Paradigm Shift for Nursing Research
Sequential multiple assignment randomization trial designs for nursing research
💻 VIDEO:Implementation Science in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
✪ An implementation science primer for psycho-oncology: Translating robust evidence into practice
Sickle cell disease and implementation science: A partnership to accelerate advances
💻 The OPTICC Center: Optimizing Implementation in Cancer Care