Implementation Science
What is Implementation Science?
“Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice, and, hence, to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services and care. This relatively new field includes the study of influences on healthcare professionals and organizational behavior.”
To describe implementation science in more depth, the next sections focus on four questions central to IS and serves as guideposts for understanding the field.
1) What is the gap between evidence-based practice and clinical practice?
What needs to change?
2) What conceptual model best describes how you hypothesize change will occur?
How/why will this change occur?
3) What implementation strategies will facilitate that change?
What will create the change?
4) What outcomes do we need to measure to evaluate whether the changes occurred in practice and clinical outcomes?
What changed?