Background Improvement initiatives offer a valuable mechanism for delivering and testing
innovations in healthcare settings. Many of these initiatives deliver meaningful and …

Background The introduction of evidence-based programs and practices into healthcare
settings has been the subject of an increasing amount of research in recent years. While a …

Implementation science is a quickly growing discipline. Lessons learned from business and
medical settings are being applied but it is unclear how well they translate to settings with …

Background A proliferation of theories, models, and frameworks (TMFs) have been
developed in the implementation science field to facilitate the implementation process. The …

Implementation fidelity is the degree to which an intervention is delivered as intended and is
critical to successful translation of evidence‐based interventions into practice. Diminished …

Background Based on a critical synthesis of literature on use of the Promoting Action on
Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework, revisions and a …

Background Public health programs can only deliver benefits if they are able to sustain
activities over time. There is a broad literature on program sustainability in public health, but …

Aim To report on an analysis of the concept of the sustainability of healthcare innovations.
Background While there have been significant empirical, theoretical and practical …

Researchers, funders, and managers of health programs and interventions have become
concerned about their long-term sustainability. However, most research about sustainability …

This editorial summarises what is known about accelerating the transfer of discoveries in the
health sciences into implementation in routine clinical practice. Three phases are described …