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Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting

Overview of attention for article published in Implementation Science, December 2013
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Title
Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting
Published in
Implementation Science, December 2013
DOI 10.1186/1748-5908-8-139
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Authors

Enola K Proctor, Byron J Powell, J Curtis McMillen

Abstract

Implementation strategies have unparalleled importance in implementation science, as they constitute the 'how to' component of changing healthcare practice. Yet, implementation researchers and other stakeholders are not able to fully utilize the findings of studies focusing on implementation strategies because they are often inconsistently labelled and poorly described, are rarely justified theoretically, lack operational definitions or manuals to guide their use, and are part of 'packaged' approaches whose specific elements are poorly understood. We address the challenges of specifying and reporting implementation strategies encountered by researchers who design, conduct, and report research on implementation strategies. Specifically, we propose guidelines for naming, defining, and operationalizing implementation strategies in terms of seven dimensions: actor, the action, action targets, temporality, dose, implementation outcomes addressed, and theoretical justification. Ultimately, implementation strategies cannot be used in practice or tested in research without a full description of their components and how they should be used. As with all intervention research, their descriptions must be precise enough to enable measurement and 'reproducibility.' We propose these recommendations to improve the reporting of implementation strategies in research studies and to stimulate further identification of elements pertinent to implementation strategies that should be included in reporting guidelines for implementation strategies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 1534 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 257 17%
Student > Master 218 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 183 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 115 7%
Other 89 6%
Other 286 18%
Unknown 406 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 310 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 193 12%
Social Sciences 183 12%
Psychology 142 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 31 2%
Other 204 13%
Unknown 491 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2023.
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#1,161,932
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#189
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Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#4
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