Implementation Science

Article	Citations
The updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research based on user feedback	954
Conceptualizing outcomes for use with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): the CFIR Outcomes Addendum	272
Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity	263
Rapid versus traditional qualitative analysis using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)	246
The FRAME-IS: a framework for documenting modifications to implementation strategies in healthcare	189
Implementability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a conceptual framework	142
Barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making in hospitals from policy to practice: a systematic review	102
Barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainment of health behaviour interventions in schools and childcare services: a systematic review	95
Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development	88
Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers: learning from a pre-mortem	84
Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based guidelines in long-term care: a qualitative evidence synthesis	81
Revisiting concepts of evidence in implementation science	78
Integrating implementation science in clinical research to maximize public health impact: a call for the reporting and alignment of implementation strategy use with implementation outcomes in clinical	75
Addressing health disparities through implementation science—a need to integrate an equity lens from the outset	72
Coincidence analysis: a new method for causal inference in implementation science	69
Factors influencing the implementation of screening and brief interventions for alcohol use in primary care practices: a systematic review using the COM-B system and Theoretical Domains Framework	64
Understanding the implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices from a policy perspective: a critical interpretive synthesis	60
Do providers use computerized clinical decision support systems? A systematic review and meta-regression of clinical decision support uptake	60
Barriers and facilitators to implementation of evidence-based task-sharing mental health interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review using implementation science frameworks	54
Implementation science issues in understanding, collecting, and using cost estimates: a multi-stakeholder perspective	53
Cost data in implementation science: categories and approaches to costing	51
Forms and functions of bridging factors: specifying the dynamic links between outer and inner contexts during implementation and sustainment	51
Ten years of implementation outcomes research: a scoping review	48
A scoping review of de-implementation frameworks and models	42
Generative AI in healthcare: an implementation science informed translational path on application, integration and governance	42

Trends in guideline implementation: an updated scoping review	41
Where is “policy” in dissemination and implementation science? Recommendations to advance theories, models, and frameworks: EPIS as a case example	39
Attitude theory and measurement in implementation science: a secondary review of empirical studies and opportunities for advancement	37
The relationship between first-level leadership and inner-context and implementation outcomes in behavioral health: a scoping review	36
Systematic review of experiences and perceptions of key actors and organisations at multiple levels within health systems internationally in responding to COVID-19	34
Unpacking the intention to action gap: a qualitative study understanding how physicians engage with audit and feedback	34
Six practical recommendations for improved implementation outcomes reporting	34
Changing behaviour, ‘more or less’: do implementation and de-implementation interventions include different behaviour change techniques?	33
Implementation science in maternity care: a scoping review	33
Translating Medicaid policy into practice: policy implementation strategies from three US states’ experiences enhancing substance use disorder treatment	32
Designing provider-focused implementation trials with purpose and intent: introducing the PRECIS-2-PS tool	31
A scoping review of frameworks in empirical studies and a review of dissemination frameworks	31
Strategies for de-implementation of low-value care—a scoping review	31
Results of the CHlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing implementation intervention to improve evidence-based nursing practices for prevention of central line associated bloodstream infections Study (CHanGing	29
A citation analysis and scoping systematic review of the operationalization of the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM)	28
Barriers and enablers for deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists in older adults: a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies using the theoretical domains framework	28
Implementation strategies and outcomes for occupational therapy in adult stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review	28
The reporting checklist for public versions of guidelines: RIGHT-PVG	27
Cost analysis in implementation studies of evidence-based practices for mental health and substance use disorders: a systematic review	27
How effective are social norms interventions in changing the clinical behaviours of healthcare workers? A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Use and effects of implementation strategies for practice guidelines in nursing: a systematic review	25
Examining the complementarity between the ERIC compilation of implementation strategies and the behaviour change technique taxonomy: a qualitative analysis	25
Iowa Implementation for Sustainability Framework	24
Provider REport of Sustainment Scale (PRESS): development and validation of a brief measure of inner context sustainment	24
Implementation strategies to improve statin utilization in individuals with hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
Understanding adaptations in the Veteran Health Administration’s Transitions Nurse Program: refining methodology and pragmatic implications for scale-up	22
A myriad of factors influencing the implementation of transitional care innovations: a scoping review	22
Extending analytic methods for economic evaluation in implementation science	21
A systematic review of evidence-based practice implementation in drug and alcohol settings: applying the consolidated framework for implementation research framework	21
Alignment in implementation of evidence-based interventions: a scoping review	21
Does coaching matter? Examining the impact of specific practice facilitation strategies on implementation of quality improvement interventions in the Healthy Hearts in the Heartland study	21
Evaluation of measures of sustainability and sustainability determinants for use in community, public health, and clinical settings: a systematic review	21
Clinical decision support improves the appropriateness of laboratory test ordering in primary care without increasing diagnostic error: the ELMO cluster randomized trial	20
Meta-review of implementation determinants for policies promoting healthy diet and physically active lifestyle: application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research	20
Determinants of using children’s mental health research in policymaking: variation by type of research use and phase of policy process	19
The relative value of Pre-Implementation stages for successful implementation of evidence-informed programs	18
Leveraging academic initiatives to advance implementation practice: a scoping review of capacity building interventions	18
Study protocol for a type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of strategies to implement firearm safety promotion as a universal suicide prevention strategy in pediatric primary care	18
Pharmacist dispensing of the abortion pill in Canada: Diffusion of Innovation meets integrated knowledge translation	18
Implementation of clinical practice changes in the PICU: a qualitative study using and refining the iPARIHS framework	17
Effect of collaborative quality improvement on stillbirths, neonatal mortality and newborn care practices in hospitals of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India: evidence from a quasi-experimental mixed-	17
Cost-effectiveness of the Adaptive Implementation of Effective Programs Trial (ADEPT): approaches to adopting implementation strategies	17
The effectiveness of quality improvement collaboratives in improving stroke care and the facilitators and barriers to their implementation: a systematic review	17
Identifying barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of computerized clinical decision support systems in hospitals: a NASSS framework-informed scoping review	17
Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices	17
Methods for capturing and analyzing adaptations: implications for implementation research	16
Psychometric properties of leadership scales for health professionals: a systematic review	16
Economic evaluation of a web-based menu planning intervention to improve childcare service adherence with dietary guidelines	16
Factors influencing postpartum haemorrhage detection and management and the implementation of a new postpartum haemorrhage care bundle (E-MOTIVE) in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa	15
Evaluation of a program for routine implementation of shared decision-making in cancer care: results of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial	15

Barriers, frameworks, and mitigating strategies influencing the dissemination and implementation of health promotion interventions in indigenous communities: a scoping review	15
Partisan differences in the effects of economic evidence and local data on legislator engagement with dissemination materials about behavioral health: a dissemination trial	15
A step toward understanding the mechanism of action of audit and feedback: a qualitative study of implementation strategies	15
De-implementing low-value care in cancer care delivery: a systematic review	15
Barriers and facilitators of implementation of a community cardiovascular disease prevention programme in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Rese	15
Dissemination interventions to improve healthcare workers’ adherence with infection prevention and control guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Data-driven approach for tailoring facilitation strategies to overcome implementation barriers in community pharmacy	15
Rationale and design of the Novel Uses of adaptive Designs to Guide provider Engagement in Electronic Health Records (NUDGE-EHR) pragmatic adaptive randomized trial: a trial protocol	14
Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review	14
Sustained effects of the INFORM cluster randomized trial: an observational post-intervention study	14
Using Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to investigate facilitators and barriers of implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention among primary care health professionals: a sy	14
A scoping review of implementation science theories, models, and frameworks — an appraisal of purpose, characteristics, usability, applicability, and testability	14
Handoffs and transitions in critical care—understanding scalability: study protocol for a multicenter stepped wedge type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial	14
Stakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial	13
Outer-context determinants in the sustainment phase of a reimbursement-driven implementation of evidence-based practices in children’s mental health services	13
5335 days of Implementation Science: using natural language processing to examine publication trends and topics	13
Using theories and frameworks to understand how to reduce low-value healthcare: a scoping review	12
Randomized controlled trials in de-implementation research: a systematic scoping review	12
Protocol for a hybrid type 2 cluster randomized trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and a pragmatic individual-level implementation strategy	12
Implementation of peer specialist services in VA primary care: a cluster randomized trial on the impact of external facilitation	12
Improving case detection of tuberculosis in hospitalised Kenyan children—employing the behaviour change wheel to aid intervention design and implementation	12
Cost, cost-consequence and cost-effectiveness evaluation of a practice change intervention to increase routine provision of antenatal care addressing maternal alcohol consumption	12
Navigating the field of implementation science towards maturity: challenges and opportunities	11
Implementation costs of hospital-based computerised decision support systems: a systematic review	11
Primary aim results of a clustered SMART for developing a school-level, adaptive implementation strategy to support CBT delivery at high schools in Michigan	11
Barriers and facilitators of implementing interventions to improve appropriate antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review based on the Consolidated Framework for Implement	11
Context-acceptability theories: example of family planning interventions in five African countries	11
Incentivizing appropriate malaria case management in the private sector: a study protocol for two linked cluster randomized controlled trials to evaluate provider- and client-focused interventions in	11
Market viability: a neglected concept in implementation science	11
“Our Choice” improves use of safer conception methods among HIV serodiscordant couples in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating two implementation approaches	11
Behavioral economic implementation strategies to improve serious illness communication between clinicians and high-risk patients with cancer: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial	11
Letter to the editor on “the implementation research logic model: a method for planning, executing, reporting, and synthesizing implementation projects” (Smith JD, Li DH, Rafferty MR. the implementati	11
Conceptual and relational advances of the PARIHS and i-PARIHS frameworks over the last decade: a critical interpretive synthesis	11
Process evaluation of an implementation trial to improve the triage, treatment and transfer of stroke patients in emergency departments (T3 trial): a qualitative study	11
Enhancing organizational readiness for implementation: constructing a typology of readiness-development strategies using a modified Delphi process	10
A scoping review of equity-focused implementation theories, models and frameworks in healthcare and their application in addressing ethnicity-related health inequities	10
Enhancing the Behaviour Change Wheel with synthesis, stakeholder involvement and decision-making: a case example using the ‘Enhancing the Quality of Psychological Interventions Delivered by Telephone’	10
Data-driven approach to implementation mapping for the selection of implementation strategies: a case example for risk-aligned bladder cancer surveillance	10
Effectiveness of interventions to improve rates of intravenous thrombolysis using behaviour change wheel functions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Sustainable deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis: study protocol for the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) type III effectiveness-deimpl	10
Implementing a digital intervention for managing uncontrolled hypertension in Primary Care: a mixed methods process evaluation	9
Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	9
OASI2: a cluster randomised hybrid evaluation of strategies for sustainable implementation of the Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury Care Bundle in maternity units in Great Britain	9
Leading the charge in the education sector: development and validation of the School Implementation Leadership Scale (SILS)	9
Evidence for objects of implementation in healthcare: considerations for Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications	9
Explaining variable effects of an adaptable implementation package to promote evidence-based practice in primary care: a longitudinal process evaluation	9
Onset PrevenTIon of urinary retention in Orthopaedic Nursing and rehabilitation, OPTION—a study protocol for a randomised trial by a multi-professional facilitator team and their first-line managers’	9
A cluster randomized controlled trial comparing Virtual Learning Collaborative and Technical Assistance strategies to implement an early palliative care program for patients with advanced cancer and t	9
Decision-making process for introduction of maternal vaccines in Kenya, 2017–2018	8
Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications: a refreshed description of the journals’ scope and expectations	8
Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize outpatient mental health treatment cascades in Mozambique (SAIA-MH): study protocol for a cluster randomized trial	8
Eight characteristics of rigorous multilevel implementation research: a step-by-step guide	8
Correction: Ten years of implementation outcomes research: a scoping review	8
‘It depends’: what 86 systematic reviews tell us about what strategies to use to support the use of research in clinical practice	8
The effectiveness of generic emails versus a remote knowledge broker to integrate mood management into a smoking cessation programme in team-based primary care: a cluster randomised trial	8
Implementation and sustainability factors of two early-stage breast cancer conversation aids in diverse practices	8
Is fidelity to a complex behaviour change intervention associated with patient outcomes? Exploring the relationship between dietitian adherence and competence and the nutritional status of interventio	8
Capitalizing on facilitators and addressing barriers when implementing active tuberculosis case-finding in six districts of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a qualitative study with key stakeholders	8
Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals	7
Advancing leadership in surgery: a realist review of interventions and strategies to promote evidence-based leadership in healthcare	7
Exploring a novel method for optimising the implementation of a colorectal cancer risk prediction tool into primary care: a qualitative study	7
A cluster randomized stepped-wedge trial to de-implement unnecessary post-operative antibiotics in children: the optimizing perioperative antibiotic in children (OPerAtiC) trial	7
Influence of physician networks on prescribing a new ingredient combination in heart failure: a longitudinal claim data-based study	7
Economic evaluation of a multi-strategy intervention that improves school-based physical activity policy implementation	7
Protocol: mixed-methods study of how implementation of US state medical cannabis laws affects treatment of chronic non-cancer pain and adverse opioid outcomes	7
Effectiveness of a multifaceted implementation strategy for improving adherence to the guideline for prevention of mental ill-health among school personnel in Sweden: a cluster randomized trial	7
Factors affecting the use of clinical practice guidelines by hospital physicians: the interplay of IT infrastructure and physician attitudes	7
Study protocol for a type III hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial to evaluate scaling interoperable clinical decision support for patient-centered chronic pain management in primary care	7
Integration of a task strengthening strategy for hypertension management into HIV care in Nigeria: a cluster randomized controlled trial study protocol	7
Barriers and enablers in the implementation of a quality improvement program for acute coronary syndromes in hospitals: a qualitative analysis using the consolidated framework for implementation resea	7
Validation and refinement of the Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion Survey for childhood obesity prevention	7
Care team and practice-level implementation strategies to optimize pediatric collaborative care: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid type III trial	7
Application of the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) compilation of strategies to health intervention implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	6
Safer Care for Older Persons in (residential) Environments (SCOPE): a pragmatic controlled trial of a care aide-led quality improvement intervention	6
Impact of a tuberculosis treatment adherence intervention versus usual care on treatment completion rates: results of a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial	6
Partnered implementation of the veteran sponsorship initiative: protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 effectiveness—implementation trial	6
Protocol for a quasi-experimental, 950 county study examining implementation outcomes and mechanisms of Stepping Up, a national policy effort to improve mental health and substance use services for ju	6
Implementation of innovative medical technologies in German inpatient care: patterns of utilization and evidence development	6
Comparing output from two methods of participatory design for developing implementation strategies: traditional contextual inquiry vs. rapid crowd sourcing	6
Implementing nudges to promote utilization of low tidal volume ventilation (INPUT): a stepped-wedge, hybrid type III trial of strategies to improve evidence-based mechanical ventilation management	6

Knowledge translation strategies to support the sustainability of evidence-based interventions in healthcare: a scoping review	6
Scaling and sustaining COVID-19 vaccination through meaningful community engagement and care coordination for underserved communities: hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation sequential multiple as	6
What behaviour change techniques have been used to improve adherence to evidence-based low back pain imaging?	6
Obesity prevention practices in early care and education settings: an adaptive implementation trial	6
Mediators of measurement-based care implementation in community mental health settings: results from a mixed-methods evaluation	5
Care to Quit: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to implement best practice smoking cessation care in cancer centres	5
A randomised fractional factorial screening experiment to predict effective features of audit and feedback	5
Proceedings of the 4th UK Implementation Science Research Conference	5
Instruments measuring evidence-based practice behavior, attitudes, and self-efficacy among healthcare professionals: a systematic review of measurement properties	5
Audit and feedback to reduce unwarranted clinical variation at scale: a realist study of implementation strategy mechanisms	5
Promoting de-implementation of inappropriate antimicrobial use in cardiac device procedures by expanding audit and feedback: protocol for hybrid III type effectiveness/implementation quasi-experimenta	5
The decision sampling framework: a methodological approach to investigate evidence use in policy and programmatic innovation	5
Effectiveness of two procedures for deploying a facilitated collaborative modeling implementation strategy—the PVS-PREDIAPS strategy—to optimize type 2 diabetes prevention in primary care: the PREDIAP	5
Influence of physician networks on the implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia	5
Using organization theory to position middle-level managers as agents of evidence-based practice implementation	5
A randomized controlled trial in schools aimed at exploring mechanisms of change of a multifaceted implementation strategy for promoting mental health at the workplace	5
SciComm Optimizer for Policy Engagement: a randomized controlled trial of the SCOPE model on state legislators’ research use in public discourse	5
Implementation of electronic prospective surveillance models in cancer care: a scoping review	5
Implementation strategy in collaboration with people with lived experience of mental illness to reduce stigma among primary care providers in Nepal (RESHAPE): protocol for a type 3 hybrid implementati	5
Perceptions of the barriers, facilitators, outcomes, and helpfulness of strategies to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment in acute care	5
Rationale and protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic clinical trial testing behavioral economic implementation strategies to improve tobacco treatment rates for cancer patients who smoke	5
Audit and feedback with or without training in-practice targeting antibiotic prescribing (TiPTAP): a study protocol of a cluster randomised trial in dental primary care	5
Supporting translation of research evidence into practice—the use of Normalisation Process Theory to assess and inform implementation within randomised controlled trials: a systematic review	5
A micro costing analysis of the development of a primary care intervention to improve the uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening	5