Implementation Science in Health Care
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Health care implementation science has contributed valuable theory and empirical evidence and has advanced efforts to identify and address important conceptual and methodological challenges in implementation research. Implementation research in health care has also helped stimulate increased policy and practice interest and has facilitated the field's continuing transformation into a coherent, integrated body of research encompassing multiple disciplines and domains. This chapter briefly reviews key stages in the evolution and development of implementation science in health care, describes the range of settings and effective practices of interest to implementation researchers—and the implementation strategies and programs developed to facilitate improvements in health care processes and outcomes—and examines key challenges and future directions in the field. A case study of an integrated program of implementation research in schizophrenia illustrates many of the ideas discussed in the chapter.
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Implementation strategies are inherently complex social interventions, as they address multifaceted and complicated processes within interpersonal, organizational, and community contexts.
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- Authors
- Mittman, B. S.
- Corresponding author
- Mittman, Brian S.
- ORCID
- Mittman, Brian S.
- Venue
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in HealthTranslating Science to Practice
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012-03-29
- Pages
- 400-418
- OpenAlex
- W2501158130
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 24.37
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Keywords
- implementation science, implementation research, health care, implementation strategies, implementation program, healthcare process improvement, health care outcomes, schizophrenia
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