Implementation Science

Article	Citations
The updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research based on user feedback	412
Implementation science should give higher priority to health equity	207
The Implementation Research Logic Model: a method for planning, executing, reporting, and synthesizing implementation projects	194
Conceptualizing outcomes for use with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR): the CFIR Outcomes Addendum	164
A systematic review of empirical studies examining mechanisms of implementation in health	146
Rapid versus traditional qualitative analysis using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)	145
The FRAME-IS: a framework for documenting modifications to implementation strategies in healthcare	140
How and under what circumstances do quality improvement collaboratives lead to better outcomes? A systematic review	103
Towards a comprehensive model for understanding adaptations’ impact: the model for adaptation design and impact (MADI)	91
Champions in context: which attributes matter for change efforts in healthcare?	87
Nudge strategies to improve healthcare providers’ implementation of evidence-based guidelines, policies and practices: a systematic review of trials included within Cochrane systematic reviews	76
Implementability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a conceptual framework	75
Barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainment of health behaviour interventions in schools and childcare services: a systematic review	70
Barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making in hospitals from policy to practice: a systematic review	69
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	63
A pragmatic method for costing implementation strategies using time-driven activity-based costing	62
Quantitative measures of health policy implementation determinants and outcomes: a systematic review	61
Implementation science in times of Covid-19	61
The use of the PARIHS framework in implementation research and practice—a citation analysis of the literature	59
Coincidence analysis: a new method for causal inference in implementation science	55
Building capacity in dissemination and implementation science: a systematic review of the academic literature on teaching and training initiatives	55
Strategies for effective dissemination of research to United States policymakers: a systematic review	52
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	52
Addressing health disparities through implementation science—a need to integrate an equity lens from the outset	51
Clinicians’ attitudes and perceived barriers and facilitators to cancer treatment clinical practice guideline adherence: a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative literature	51

Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: a normalisation process theory coding manual for qualitative research and instrument development	51
Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based guidelines in long-term care: a qualitative evidence synthesis	51
Do providers use computerized clinical decision support systems? A systematic review and meta-regression of clinical decision support uptake	50
Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers: learning from a pre-mortem	50
The effectiveness of continuous quality improvement for developing professional practice and improving health care outcomes: a systematic review	50
Revisiting concepts of evidence in implementation science	47
Understanding the implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices from a policy perspective: a critical interpretive synthesis	45
Lessons learned about the effective operationalization of champions as an implementation strategy: results from a qualitative process evaluation of a pragmatic trial	45
Cost data in implementation science: categories and approaches to costing	44
Implementation science issues in understanding, collecting, and using cost estimates: a multi-stakeholder perspective	42
Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a systematic review of barriers and facilitators and strategic behavioural analysis of interventions	41
Forms and functions of bridging factors: specifying the dynamic links between outer and inner contexts during implementation and sustainment	40
Costing the implementation of public health interventions in resource-limited settings: a conceptual framework	40
Advancing understanding and identifying strategies for sustaining evidence-based practices: a review of reviews	38
Effectiveness of training methods for delivery of evidence-based psychotherapies: a systematic review	38
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	35
Avoiding unnecessary hospitalisation for patients with chronic conditions: a systematic review of implementation determinants for hospital avoidance programmes	34
Effectiveness of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies on health care professionals’ behaviour and patient outcomes in the cancer care context: a systematic review	34
Implementation outcome instruments for use in physical healthcare settings: a systematic review	32
Contracting as a bridging factor linking outer and inner contexts during EBP implementation and sustainment: a prospective study across multiple U.S. public sector service systems	32
Systematic review of experiences and perceptions of key actors and organisations at multiple levels within health systems internationally in responding to COVID-19	31
A scoping review of de-implementation frameworks and models	30
Attitude theory and measurement in implementation science: a secondary review of empirical studies and opportunities for advancement	29
Changing behaviour, ‘more or less’: do implementation and de-implementation interventions include different behaviour change techniques?	29
The relationship between first-level leadership and inner-context and implementation outcomes in behavioral health: a scoping review	29
Assessment of the quality of recommendations from 161 clinical practice guidelines using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation–Recommendations Excellence (AGREE-REX) instrument shows	28
Unpacking the intention to action gap: a qualitative study understanding how physicians engage with audit and feedback	28
Designing provider-focused implementation trials with purpose and intent: introducing the PRECIS-2-PS tool	28
Where is “policy” in dissemination and implementation science? Recommendations to advance theories, models, and frameworks: EPIS as a case example	28
Towards a taxonomy of behavior change techniques for promoting shared decision making	26
Results of the CHlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing implementation intervention to improve evidence-based nursing practices for prevention of central line associated bloodstream infections Study (CHanGing	25
Trends in guideline implementation: an updated scoping review	25
Cost analysis in implementation studies of evidence-based practices for mental health and substance use disorders: a systematic review	23
Use and effects of implementation strategies for practice guidelines in nursing: a systematic review	23
Translating Medicaid policy into practice: policy implementation strategies from three US states’ experiences enhancing substance use disorder treatment	23
Implementation strategies to improve statin utilization in individuals with hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
How effective are social norms interventions in changing the clinical behaviours of healthcare workers? A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Implementation science in maternity care: a scoping review	22
Measurement of sustainment of prevention programs and initiatives: the sustainment measurement system scale	21
Six practical recommendations for improved implementation outcomes reporting	21
The reporting checklist for public versions of guidelines: RIGHT-PVG	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
Implementation strategies and outcomes for occupational therapy in adult stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review	20
Meta-review of implementation determinants for policies promoting healthy diet and physically active lifestyle: application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research	20
Clinical decision support improves the appropriateness of laboratory test ordering in primary care without increasing diagnostic error: the ELMO cluster randomized trial	20
A scoping review of frameworks in empirical studies and a review of dissemination frameworks	20
Effects of de-implementation strategies aimed at reducing low-value nursing procedures: a systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Barriers and enablers for deprescribing benzodiazepine receptor agonists in older adults: a systematic review of qualitative and quantitative studies using the theoretical domains framework	20
Examining fidelity in the INFORM trial: a complex team-based behavioral intervention	20
Extending analytic methods for economic evaluation in implementation science	19

A systematic review of evidence-based practice implementation in drug and alcohol settings: applying the consolidated framework for implementation research framework	19
Alignment in implementation of evidence-based interventions: a scoping review	19
Development of an intervention to facilitate implementation and uptake of diabetic retinopathy screening	19
Why do they do it? A grounded theory study of the use of low-value care among primary health care physicians	18
Evaluation of measures of sustainability and sustainability determinants for use in community, public health, and clinical settings: a systematic review	18
The effects of a prolonged exposure workshop with and without consultation on provider and patient outcomes: a randomized implementation trial	18
Ten years of implementation outcomes research: a scoping review	18
Iowa Implementation for Sustainability Framework	18
Understanding adaptations in the Veteran Health Administration’s Transitions Nurse Program: refining methodology and pragmatic implications for scale-up	17
Strategies for de-implementation of low-value care—a scoping review	17
Determinants of using children’s mental health research in policymaking: variation by type of research use and phase of policy process	16
Implementation of clinical practice changes in the PICU: a qualitative study using and refining the iPARIHS framework	16
Economic evaluation of a web-based menu planning intervention to improve childcare service adherence with dietary guidelines	16
Provider REport of Sustainment Scale (PRESS): development and validation of a brief measure of inner context sustainment	16
A citation analysis and scoping systematic review of the operationalization of the Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM)	16
Tracking implementation strategies in the randomized rollout of a Veterans Affairs national opioid risk management initiative	15
Cost-effectiveness of the Adaptive Implementation of Effective Programs Trial (ADEPT): approaches to adopting implementation strategies	15
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-	15
Evaluation of a program for routine implementation of shared decision-making in cancer care: results of a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial	15
A step toward understanding the mechanism of action of audit and feedback: a qualitative study of implementation strategies	14
Examining the complementarity between the ERIC compilation of implementation strategies and the behaviour change technique taxonomy: a qualitative analysis	14
The effectiveness of quality improvement collaboratives in improving stroke care and the facilitators and barriers to their implementation: a systematic review	14
Optimising and profiling pre-implementation contexts to create and implement a public health network intervention for tackling loneliness	14
Building knowledge translation competency in a community-based hospital: a practice-informed curriculum for healthcare providers, researchers, and leadership	14
Understanding the public’s role in reducing low-value care: a scoping review	13
Pharmacist dispensing of the abortion pill in Canada: Diffusion of Innovation meets integrated knowledge translation	13
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	13
De-implementing low-value care in cancer care delivery: a systematic review	13
Audit and feedback to improve laboratory test and transfusion ordering in critical care: a systematic review	13
Assessing the Veterans Health Administration’s response to intimate partner violence among women: protocol for a randomized hybrid type 2 implementation-effectiveness trial	13
Use of the GRADE approach in health policymaking and evaluation: a scoping review of nutrition and physical activity policies	13
Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices	13
A myriad of factors influencing the implementation of transitional care innovations: a scoping review	13
Factors influencing the implementation of cardiovascular risk scoring in primary care: a mixed-method systematic review	13
Applying population health approaches to improve safe anticoagulant use in the outpatient setting: the DOAC Dashboard multi-cohort implementation evaluation study protocol	13
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	13
Implementation and evaluation of nonclinical interventions for appropriate use of cesarean section in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a multisite hybrid effectiveness-implementation typ	12
Data-driven approach for tailoring facilitation strategies to overcome implementation barriers in community pharmacy	12
Partisan differences in the effects of economic evidence and local data on legislator engagement with dissemination materials about behavioral health: a dissemination trial	12
Handoffs and transitions in critical care—understanding scalability: study protocol for a multicenter stepped wedge type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial	12
Methods for capturing and analyzing adaptations: implications for implementation research	12
Psychometric properties of leadership scales for health professionals: a systematic review	12
Getting to implementation: a protocol for a Hybrid III stepped wedge cluster randomized evaluation of using data-driven implementation strategies to improve cirrhosis care for Veterans	12
Barriers, frameworks, and mitigating strategies influencing the dissemination and implementation of health promotion interventions in indigenous communities: a scoping review	11
The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid presc	11
Using theories and frameworks to understand how to reduce low-value healthcare: a scoping review	11
Implementation of peer specialist services in VA primary care: a cluster randomized trial on the impact of external facilitation	11
Improving case detection of tuberculosis in hospitalised Kenyan children—employing the behaviour change wheel to aid intervention design and implementation	11
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	11
Cost, cost-consequence and cost-effectiveness evaluation of a practice change intervention to increase routine provision of antenatal care addressing maternal alcohol consumption	11
5335 days of Implementation Science: using natural language processing to examine publication trends and topics	10
Comparing effects of two higher intensity feedback interventions with simple feedback on improving staff communication in nursing homes—the INFORM cluster-randomized controlled trial	10
Dissemination interventions to improve healthcare workers’ adherence with infection prevention and control guidelines: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Study protocol: a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of onsite GeneXpert testing at community health centers in Uganda (XPEL-TB)	10
Impetus to change: a multi-site qualitative exploration of the national audit of dementia	10
“All about the money?” A qualitative interview study examining organizational- and system-level characteristics that promote or hinder shared decision-making in cancer care in the United States	10
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	10
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	10
Protocol for a hybrid type 2 cluster randomized trial of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy and a pragmatic individual-level implementation strategy	10
Outer-context determinants in the sustainment phase of a reimbursement-driven implementation of evidence-based practices in children’s mental health services	10
Impact of capacity building interventions on individual and organizational competency for HPSR in endemic disease control in Nigeria: a qualitative study	10
Sustained effects of the INFORM cluster randomized trial: an observational post-intervention study	10
Prevention of health care associated venous thromboembolism through implementing VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines in hospitalized medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Process evaluation of an implementation trial to improve the triage, treatment and transfer of stroke patients in emergency departments (T3 trial): a qualitative study	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’	9
Enhancing organizational readiness for implementation: constructing a typology of readiness-development strategies using a modified Delphi process	9
Health plan adaptations to a mailed outreach program for colorectal cancer screening among Medicaid and Medicare enrollees: the BeneFIT study	9
Leveraging academic initiatives to advance implementation practice: a scoping review of capacity building interventions	9
Data-driven approach to implementation mapping for the selection of implementation strategies: a case example for risk-aligned bladder cancer surveillance	9
Understanding the uptake of a clinical innovation for osteoarthritis in primary care: a qualitative study of knowledge mobilisation using the i-PARIHS framework	9
Characterizing evolving frameworks: issues from Esmail et al. (2020) review	9
Rugged landscapes: complexity and implementation science	9
Establishing cross-systems collaborations for implementation: protocol for a longitudinal mixed methods study	9
Incorporators, Early Investors, and Learners: a longitudinal study of organizational adaptation during EBP implementation and sustainment	9
Market viability: a neglected concept in implementation science	9
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	9
“Our Choice” improves use of safer conception methods among HIV serodiscordant couples in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating two implementation approaches	9
Effectiveness of interventions to improve rates of intravenous thrombolysis using behaviour change wheel functions: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Stakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial	8
Sustainable deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis: study protocol for the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) type III effectiveness-deimpl	8

Mentored training and its association with dissemination and implementation research output: a quasi-experimental evaluation	8
Context-acceptability theories: example of family planning interventions in five African countries	8
Implementation costs of hospital-based computerised decision support systems: a systematic review	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 of family psychosocial risk assessment in pediatric cancer with the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT): study protocol for a cluster-randomized comparative effectiveness trial	8
Protocol for the 3HP Options Trial: a hybrid type 3 implementation-effectiveness randomized trial of delivery strategies for short-course tuberculosis preventive therapy among people living with HIV i	8
Leading the charge in the education sector: development and validation of the School Implementation Leadership Scale (SILS)	8
Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications: a refreshed description of the journals’ scope and expectations	7
Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize outpatient mental health treatment cascades in Mozambique (SAIA-MH): study protocol for a cluster randomized trial	7
The relative value of Pre-Implementation stages for successful implementation of evidence-informed programs	7
A qualitative assessment of factors influencing implementation and sustainability of evidence-based tobacco use treatment in Vietnam health centers	7
Behavioral economic implementation strategies to improve serious illness communication between clinicians and high-risk patients with cancer: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial	7
Implementing a multilevel intervention to accelerate colorectal cancer screening and follow-up in federally qualified health centers using a stepped wedge design: a study protocol	7
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	7
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	7
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	7
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	7
Primary aim results of a clustered SMART for developing a school-level, adaptive implementation strategy to support CBT delivery at high schools in Michigan	7
Factors affecting the use of clinical practice guidelines by hospital physicians: the interplay of IT infrastructure and physician attitudes	7
Examining the effect of the individual characteristics of implementers and the interaction of multiple relationships on the structure of psychosocial intervention teams	6
Conceptual and relational advances of the PARIHS and i-PARIHS frameworks over the last decade: a critical interpretive synthesis	6
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	6
Care team and practice-level implementation strategies to optimize pediatric collaborative care: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid type III trial	6
Implementing a digital intervention for managing uncontrolled hypertension in Primary Care: a mixed methods process evaluation	6
Exploring a novel method for optimising the implementation of a colorectal cancer risk prediction tool into primary care: a qualitative study	6
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	6
Evidence for objects of implementation in healthcare: considerations for Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications	6
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	6
Identifying barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of computerized clinical decision support systems in hospitals: a NASSS framework-informed scoping review	6
Integration of a task strengthening strategy for hypertension management into HIV care in Nigeria: a cluster randomized controlled trial study protocol	6
Correction: Ten years of implementation outcomes research: a scoping review	6
From sensitization to adoption? A qualitative study of the implementation of a digitally supported intervention for clinical decision making in polypharmacy	6
Validation and refinement of the Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion Survey for childhood obesity prevention	6
Adjust your own oxygen mask before helping those around you: an autoethnography of participatory research	6
Comparing a standard and tailored approach to scaling up an evidence-based intervention for antiretroviral therapy for people who inject drugs in Vietnam: study protocol for a cluster randomized hybri	5
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	5
Care to Quit: a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to implement best practice smoking cessation care in cancer centres	5
Implementation of innovative medical technologies in German inpatient care: patterns of utilization and evidence development	5
Implementation and sustainability factors of two early-stage breast cancer conversation aids in diverse practices	5
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	5
Decision-making process for introduction of maternal vaccines in Kenya, 2017–2018	5
Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review	5
Design and study protocol for a cluster randomized trial of a multi-faceted implementation strategy to increase the uptake of the USPSTF hypertension screening recommendations: the EMBRACE study	5
The decision sampling framework: a methodological approach to investigate evidence use in policy and programmatic innovation	5
Protocol: examining the effectiveness of an adaptive implementation intervention to improve uptake of the VA suicide risk identification strategy: a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial	5
Protocol: mixed-methods study of how implementation of US state medical cannabis laws affects treatment of chronic non-cancer pain and adverse opioid outcomes	5
Using organization theory to position middle-level managers as agents of evidence-based practice implementation	5
A cluster randomized stepped-wedge trial to de-implement unnecessary post-operative antibiotics in children: the optimizing perioperative antibiotic in children (OPerAtiC) trial	5
Influence of physician networks on prescribing a new ingredient combination in heart failure: a longitudinal claim data-based study	5
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	5
Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review	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
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	5