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Implementation Science

Ausgabe 1/2014

Inhalt (186 Artikel)

Open Access Study protocol

How can diagnostic assessment programs be implemented to enhance inter-professional collaborative care for cancer?

Anna R Gagliardi, Terri Stuart-McEwan, Julie Gilbert, Frances C Wright, Jeffrey Hoch, Melissa C Brouwers, Mark J Dobrow, Thomas K Waddell, David R McCready

Open Access Research

Understanding practice: the factors that influence management of mild traumatic brain injury in the emergency department-a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework

Emma J Tavender, Marije Bosch, Russell L Gruen, Sally E Green, Jonathan Knott, Jill J Francis, Susan Michie, Denise A O’Connor

Open Access Study protocol

Engaging Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) clinical staff to lead practice improvement: the PICU Participatory Action Research Project (PICU-PAR)

Jean-Paul Collet, Peter W Skippen, Mir Kaber Mosavianpour, Alexander Pitfield, Bubli Chakraborty, Garth Hunte, Ronald Lindstrom, Niranjan Kissoon, William H McKellin

Open Access Research

Discriminant content validity of a theoretical domains framework questionnaire for use in implementation research

Johanna M Huijg, Winifred A Gebhardt, Mathilde R Crone, Elise Dusseldorp, Justin Presseau

Open Access Study protocol

A cluster randomized trial to evaluate external support for the implementation of positive behavioral interventions and supports by school personnel

Ricardo Eiraldi, Barry McCurdy, Muniya Khanna, Jennifer Mautone, Abbas F Jawad, Thomas Power, Zuleyha Cidav, Jaclyn Cacia, George Sugai

Open Access Debate

No more ‘business as usual’ with audit and feedback interventions: towards an agenda for a reinvigorated intervention

Noah M Ivers, Anne Sales, Heather Colquhoun, Susan Michie, Robbie Foy, Jill J Francis, Jeremy M Grimshaw

Open Access Reviewer acknowledgement

Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Anne Sales, Michel Wensing

Open Access Research

Patient-specific computer-based decision support in primary healthcare—a randomized trial

Tiina Kortteisto, Jani Raitanen, Jorma Komulainen, Ilkka Kunnamo, Marjukka Mäkelä, Pekka Rissanen, Minna Kaila

Open Access Research

Organizational readiness for implementing change: a psychometric assessment of a new measure

Christopher M Shea, Sara R Jacobs, Denise A Esserman, Kerry Bruce, Bryan J Weiner

Open Access Research

The effect of a national quality improvement collaborative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England

Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Deborah Shaw, Nadya Essam, Fiona Jayne Togher, Zowie Davy, Anne Spaight, Michael Dewey

Open Access Study protocol

Can primary care team-based transition to insulin improve outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes: the stepping up to insulin cluster randomized controlled trial protocol

John S Furler, Doris Young, James Best, Elizabeth Patterson, David O’Neal, Danny Liew, Jane Speight, Leonie Segal, Carl May, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Elizabeth Holmes-Truscott, Louise Ginnivan, Irene D Blackberry

Open Access Study protocol

Designing a strategy to implement optimal conservative treatments in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis in orthopedic practice: a study protocol of the BART-OP study

Stefanie N Hofstede, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland, Cornelia HM van den Ende, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Rob GHH Nelissen, Leti van Bodegom-Vos

Open Access Research

Why less may be more: a mixed methods study of the work and relatedness of ‘weak ties’ in supporting long-term condition self-management

Anne Rogers, Helen Brooks, Ivaylo Vassilev, Anne Kennedy, Christian Blickem, David Reeves

Open Access Research

Comparing in-person and webinar delivery of an immunization quality improvement program: a process evaluation of the adolescent AFIX trial

Melissa B Gilkey, Jennifer L Moss, Alyssa J Roberts, Amanda M Dayton, Amy H Grimshaw, Noel T Brewer

Open Access Research

Involving patients in setting priorities for healthcare improvement: a cluster randomized trial

Antoine Boivin, Pascale Lehoux, Réal Lacombe, Jako Burgers, Richard Grol

Open Access Research

Peering into the black box: a meta-analysis of how clinicians use decision aids during clinical encounters

Kirk D Wyatt, Megan E Branda, Ryan T Anderson, Laurie J Pencille, Victor M Montori, Erik P Hess, Henry H Ting, Annie LeBlanc

Open Access Study protocol

Dental care resistance prevention and antibiotic prescribing modification—the cluster-randomised controlled DREAM trial

Christin Löffler, Femke Böhmer, Anne Hornung, Hermann Lang, Ulrike Burmeister, Andreas Podbielski, Anja Wollny, Günther Kundt, Attila Altiner

Open Access Study protocol

Designing and evaluating an interprofessional shared decision-making and goal-setting decision aid for patients with diabetes in clinical care - systematic decision aid development and study protocol

Catherine H Yu, Dawn Stacey, Joanna Sale, Susan Hall, David M Kaplan, Noah Ivers, Jeremy Rezmovitz, Fok-Han Leung, Baiju R Shah, Sharon E Straus

Open Access Research

A new impetus for guideline development and implementation: construction and evaluation of a toolbox

Mirrian AHW Hilbink, Marielle MTJ Ouwens, Jako S Burgers, Rudolf B Kool

Open Access Research

A mixed methods approach to understand variation in lung cancer practice and the role of guidelines

Melissa C Brouwers, Julie Makarski, Kimberly Garcia, Saira Akram, Gail E Darling, Peter M Ellis, William K Evans, Mita Giacomini, Lorraine Martelli-Reid, Yee C Ung

Open Access Research

Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial

Maxine Power, Pippa J Tyrrell, Anthony G Rudd, Mary P Tully, David Dalton, Martin Marshall, Ian Chappell, Delphine Corgié, Don Goldmann, Dale Webb, Mary Dixon-Woods, Gareth Parry

Open Access Study protocol

Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda

Claudia Hanson, Peter Waiswa, Tanya Marchant, Michael Marx, Fatuma Manzi, Godfrey Mbaruku, Alex Rowe, Göran Tomson, Joanna Schellenberg, Stefan Peterson

Open Access Methodology

Development of a behaviour change intervention: a case study on the practical application of theory

Mark Porcheret, Chris Main, Peter Croft, Robert McKinley, Andrew Hassell, Krysia Dziedzic

Open Access Systematic review

Examining and addressing evidence-practice gaps in cancer care: a systematic review

Jamie Bryant, Allison Boyes, Kimberley Jones, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Mariko Carey, Rae Fry

Open Access Study protocol

Implementation of the epilepsy center of excellence to improve access to and quality of care – protocol for a mixed methods study

Mary Jo Pugh, Luci K Leykum, Holly J Lanham, Erin P Finley, Polly H Noël, Katharine K McMillan, Jacqueline A Pugh

Open Access Research

Measuring determinants of implementation behavior: psychometric properties of a questionnaire based on the theoretical domains framework

Johanna M Huijg, Winifred A Gebhardt, Elise Dusseldorp, Marieke W Verheijden, Nicolette van der Zouwe, Barend JC Middelkoop, Mathilde R Crone

Open Access Research

Understanding factors associated with the translation of cardiovascular research: a multinational case study approach

Steven Wooding, Stephen R Hanney, Alexandra Pollitt, Jonathan Grant, Martin J Buxton

Open Access Short report

Towards a common terminology: a simplified framework of interventions to promote and integrate evidence into health practices, systems, and policies

Heather Colquhoun, Jennifer Leeman, Susan Michie, Cynthia Lokker, Peter Bragge, Susanne Hempel, K Ann McKibbon, Gjalt-Jorn Y Peters, Kathleen R Stevens, Michael G Wilson, Jeremy Grimshaw

Open Access Research

Organizational impact of evidence-informed decision making training initiatives: a case study comparison of two approaches

François Champagne, Louise Lemieux-Charles, Marie-France Duranceau, Gail MacKean, Trish Reay

Open Access Research

Context matters: measuring implementation climate among individuals and groups

Sara R Jacobs, Bryan J Weiner, Alicia C Bunger

Open Access Study protocol

Integration of robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration, and decision making: a realist process evaluation protocol

Rebecca Randell, Joanne Greenhalgh, Jon Hindmarsh, Dawn Dowding, David Jayne, Alan Pearman, Peter Gardner, Julie Croft, Alwyn Kotze

Open Access Study protocol

Systems analysis and improvement to optimize pMTCT (SAIA): a cluster randomized trial

Kenneth Sherr, Sarah Gimbel, Alison Rustagi, Ruth Nduati, Fatima Cuembelo, Carey Farquhar, Judith Wasserheit, Stephen Gloyd

Open Access Methodology

Scaling up the evaluation of psychotherapy: evaluating motivational interviewing fidelity via statistical text classification

David C Atkins, Mark Steyvers, Zac E Imel, Padhraic Smyth

Open Access Study protocol

The development of an online decision support tool for organizational readiness for change

Sobia Khan, Caitlyn Timmings, Julia E Moore, Christine Marquez, Kasha Pyka, Galina Gheihman, Sharon E Straus

Open Access Study protocol

Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme – mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol

Jo Rycroft-Malone, Rob Anderson, Rebecca S Crane, Andy Gibson, Felix Gradinger, Heledd Owen Griffiths, Stewart Mercer, Willem Kuyken

Open Access Systematic review

Applications of social constructivist learning theories in knowledge translation for healthcare professionals: a scoping review

Aliki Thomas, Anita Menon, Jill Boruff, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Sara Ahmed

Open Access Study protocol

De-implementation of inappropriately tight control (of hypoglycemia) for health: protocol with an example of a research grant application

David C Aron, Julie Lowery, Chin-lin Tseng, Paul Conlin, Leila Kahwati

Open Access Research

Reporting of context and implementation in studies of global health interventions: a pilot study

Jill Luoto, Paul G Shekelle, Margaret A Maglione, Breanne Johnsen, Tanja Perry

Open Access Study protocol

Clinician-led improvement in cancer care (CLICC) - testing a multifaceted implementation strategy to increase evidence-based prostate cancer care: phased randomised controlled trial - study protocol

Bernadette (Bea) Brown, Jane Young, David P Smith, Andrew B Kneebone, Andrew J Brooks, Miranda Xhilaga, Amanda Dominello, Dianne L O’Connell, Mary Haines

Open Access Study protocol

Improving Diabetes care through Examining, Advising, and prescribing (IDEA): protocol for a theory-based cluster randomised controlled trial of a multiple behaviour change intervention aimed at primary healthcare professionals

Justin Presseau, Gillian Hawthorne, Falko F Sniehotta, Nick Steen, Jill J Francis, Marie Johnston, Joan Mackintosh, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Eileen Kaner, Marko Elovainio, Mark Deverill, Tom Coulthard, Heather Brown, Margaret Hunter, Martin P Eccles

Open Access Research

The role of interpersonal communication in the process of knowledge mobilization within a community-based organization: a network analysis

Heather L Gainforth, Amy E Latimer-Cheung, Peter Athanasopoulos, Spencer Moore, Kathleen A Martin Ginis

Open Access Research

Translating evidence-based interventions for implementation: Experiences from Project HEAL in African American churches

Cheryl L Holt, Erin K Tagai, Mary Ann Scheirer, Sherie Lou Z Santos, Janice Bowie, Muhiuddin Haider, Jimmie L Slade, Min Qi Wang, Tony Whitehead

Open Access Research

Implementation of a nurse-led behaviour change intervention to support medication taking in type 2 diabetes: beyond hypothesised active ingredients (SAMS Consultation Study)

Wendy Hardeman, Laura Lamming, Ian Kellar, Anna De Simoni, Jonathan Graffy, Sue Boase, Stephen Sutton, Andrew Farmer, Ann Louise Kinmonth

Open Access Study protocol

A cluster-randomized trial of task shifting and blood pressure control in Ghana: study protocol

Gbenga Ogedegbe, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Joyce Gyamfi, William Chaplin, Michael Ntim, Kingsley Apusiga, Kiran Khurshid, Richard Cooper

Open Access Short report

The development and application of audit criteria for assessing knowledge exchange plans in health research grant applications

Alexa I Ruppertsberg, Vicky Ward, Alicia Ridout, Robbie Foy

Open Access Research

Sustaining clinician penetration, attitudes and knowledge in cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth anxiety

Julie M Edmunds, Kendra L Read, Vanesa A Ringle, Douglas M Brodman, Philip C Kendall, Rinad S Beidas

Open Access Short report

Quality improvement collaboratives and the wisdom of crowds: spread explained by perceived success at group level

Michel L A Dückers, Peter P Groenewegen, Cordula Wagner

Open Access Study protocol

Application of theory to enhance audit and feedback interventions to increase the uptake of evidence-based transfusion practice: an intervention development protocol

Natalie J Gould, Fabiana Lorencatto, Simon J Stanworth, Susan Michie, Maria E Prior, Liz Glidewell, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Jill J Francis

Open Access Short report

Interventions to change maternity healthcare professionals’ behaviours to promote weight-related support for obese pregnant women: a systematic review

Nicola Heslehurst, Lisa Crowe, Shannon Robalino, Falko F Sniehotta, Elaine McColl, Judith Rankin

Open Access Research

A framework of the desirable features of guideline implementation tools (GItools): Delphi survey and assessment of GItools

Anna R Gagliardi, Melissa C Brouwers, Onil K Bhattacharyya

Open Access Research

Theory of planned behaviour can help understand processes underlying the use of two emergency medicine diagnostic imaging rules

Richard Perez, Jamie C Brehaut, Monica Taljaard, Ian G Stiell, Catherine M Clement, Jeremy Grimshaw

Open Access Research

A formative evaluation of the implementation of an upper limb stroke rehabilitation intervention in clinical practice: a qualitative interview study

Louise A Connell, Naoimh E McMahon, Jocelyn E Harris, Caroline L Watkins, Janice J Eng

Open Access Research

Identifying determinants of care for tailoring implementation in chronic diseases: an evaluation of different methods

Jane Krause, Jan Van Lieshout, Rien Klomp, Elke Huntink, Eivind Aakhus, Signe Flottorp, Cornelia Jaeger, Jost Steinhaeuser, Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, Anna Kowalczyk, Shona Agarwal, Michel Wensing, Richard Baker

Open Access Methodology

GRAIDs: a framework for closing the gap in the availability of health promotion programs and interventions for people with disabilities

James H Rimmer, Kerri A Vanderbom, Linda G Bandini, Charles E Drum, Karen Luken, Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Ian D Graham

Open Access Short report

The AGREE Enterprise: a decade of advancing clinical practice guidelines

Julie Makarski, Melissa C Brouwers

Open Access Methodology

Patients-people-place: developing a framework for researching organizational culture during health service redesign and change

Nicola K Gale, Jonathan Shapiro, Hugh S T McLeod, Sabi Redwood, Alistair Hewison

Open Access Study protocol

From policy to practice: implementing frontline community health services for substance dependence-study protocol

Kathryn J Gill, Emily Campbell, Gail Gauthier, Spyridoula Xenocostas, Dara Charney, Ann C Macaulay

Open Access Research

Implementation and use of electronic synoptic cancer reporting: an explorative case study of six Norwegian pathology laboratories

Bettina Casati, Hans Kristian Haugland, Gunn Marit J Barstad, Roger Bjugn

Open Access Methodology

The use of continuous surveys to generate and continuously report high quality timely maternal and newborn health data at the district level in Tanzania and Uganda

Tanya Marchant, Joanna Schellenberg, Stefan Peterson, Fatuma Manzi, Peter Waiswa, Claudia Hanson, Silas Temu, Kajjo Darious, Yovitha Sedekia, Joseph Akuze, Alexander K Rowe

Open Access Study protocol

Implementing the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines: a mixed methods study and cluster randomised trial of a model osteoarthritis consultation in primary care - the Management of OsteoArthritis In Consultations (MOSAICS) study protocol

Krysia S Dziedzic, Emma L Healey, Mark Porcheret, Bie Nio Ong, Chris J Main, Kelvin P Jordan, Martyn Lewis, John J Edwards, Clare Jinks, Andrew Morden, Gretl A McHugh, Sarah Ryan, Andrew Finney, Sue Jowett, Raymond Oppong, Ebenezer Afolabi, Angela Pushpa-Rajah, June Handy, Kris Clarkson, Elizabeth Mason, Tracy Whitehurst, Rhian W Hughes, Peter R Croft, Elaine M Hay

Open Access Study protocol

Development of a Management Algorithm for Post-operative Pain (MAPP) after total knee and total hip replacement: study rationale and design

Mari Botti, Bridie Kent, Tracey Bucknall, Maxine Duke, Megan-Jane Johnstone, Julie Considine, Bernice Redley, Susan Hunter, Richard de Steiger, Marlene Holcombe, Emma Cohen

Open Access Methodology

How pragmatic is it? Lessons learned using PRECIS and RE-AIM for determining pragmatic characteristics of research

Bridget Gaglio, Siobhan M Phillips, Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, Michael A Sanchez, Russell E Glasgow

Open Access Research

Implementing an outreaching, preference-led stepped care intervention programme to reduce late life depressive symptoms: results of a mixed-methods study

Ilse MJ van Beljouw, Miranda GH Laurant, Marjolijn Heerings, Max L Stek, Harm WJ van Marwijk, Eric van Exel

Open Access Study protocol

Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of computerized clinical decision support systems in specialty hospitals: protocol for a qualitative cross-sectional study

Lorenzo Moja, Elisa Giulia Liberati, Laura Galuppo, Mara Gorli, Marco Maraldi, Oriana Nanni, Giulio Rigon, Pietro Ruggieri, Francesca Ruggiero, Giuseppe Scaratti, Alberto Vaona, Koren Hyogene Kwag

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluation of the implementation of centralized waiting lists for patients without a family physician and their effects across the province of Quebec

Mylaine Breton, Astrid Brousselle, Antoine Boivin, Christine Loignon, Nassera Touati, Carl-Ardy Dubois, Kareen Nour, Djamal Berbiche, Danièle Roberge

Open Access Debate

Instrumentation issues in implementation science

Ruben G Martinez, Cara C Lewis, Bryan J Weiner

Open Access Systematic review

Using realist evaluation to open the black box of knowledge translation: a state-of-the-art review

Katherine L Salter, Anita Kothari

Open Access Study protocol

Transforming mental health services: a participatory mixed methods study to promote and evaluate the implementation of recovery-oriented services

Melissa M Park, Hiba Zafran, Janet Stewart, Jon Salsberg, Carolyn Ells, Suzanne Rouleau, Orly Estein, Thomas W Valente

Open Access Research

Implementation of a couple-based HIV prevention program: a cluster randomized trial comparing manual versus Web-based approaches

Susan S Witte, Elwin Wu, Nabila El-Bassel, Timothy Hunt, Louisa Gilbert, Katie Potocnik Medina, Mingway Chang, Ryan Kelsey, Jessica Rowe, Robert Remien

Open Access Research

Multi-level factors influence the implementation and use of complex innovations in cancer care: a multiple case study of synoptic reporting

Robin Urquhart, Geoffrey A Porter, Joan Sargeant, Lois Jackson, Eva Grunfeld

Open Access Study protocol

Design of a process evaluation of the implementation of a physical activity and sports stimulation programme in Dutch rehabilitation setting: ReSpAct

Femke Hoekstra, Roelina A Alingh, Cees P van der Schans, Florentina J Hettinga, Marjo Duijf, Rienk Dekker, Lucas HV van der Woude

Open Access Study protocol

Increasing the quantity and quality of searching for current best evidence to answer clinical questions: protocol and intervention design of the MacPLUS FS Factorial Randomized Controlled Trials

Thomas Agoritsas, Emma Iserman, Nicholas Hobson, Natasha Cohen, Adam Cohen, Pavel S Roshanov, Miguel Perez, Chris Cotoi, Rick Parrish, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Nancy L Wilczynski, Alfonso Iorio, R Brian Haynes

Open Access Research

Capacity building for evidence-based decision making in local health departments: scaling up an effective training approach

Julie A Jacobs, Kathleen Duggan, Paul Erwin, Carson Smith, Elaine Borawski, Judy Compton, Luann D’Ambrosio, Scott H Frank, Susan Frazier-Kouassi, Peggy A Hannon, Jennifer Leeman, Avia Mainor, Ross C Brownson

Open Access Research

A knowledge translation tool improved osteoporosis disease management in primary care: an interrupted time series analysis

Monika Kastner, Anna M Sawka, Jemila Hamid, Maggie Chen, Kevin Thorpe, Mark Chignell, Joycelyne Ewusie, Christine Marquez, David Newton, Sharon E Straus

Open Access Research

Exploring mentorship as a strategy to build capacity for knowledge translation research and practice: a scoping systematic review

Anna R Gagliardi, Fiona Webster, Laure Perrier, Mary Bell, Sharon Straus

Open Access Research

The last one heard: the importance of an early-stage participatory evaluation for programme implementation

Brynne Gilmore, Frédérique Vallières, Eilish McAuliffe, Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Gilbert Muyambi

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol for the process evaluation of a complex intervention designed to increase the use of research in health policy and program organisations (the SPIRIT study)

Abby Haynes, Sue Brennan, Stacy Carter, Denise O'Connor, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Tari Turner, Gisselle Gallego

Open Access Research

Development and verification of an agent-based model of opinion leadership

Christine A Anderson, Marita G Titler

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol: Adaptive Implementation of Effective Programs Trial (ADEPT): cluster randomized SMART trial comparing a standard versus enhanced implementation strategy to improve outcomes of a mood disorders program

Amy M Kilbourne, Daniel Almirall, Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanette Waxmonsky, David E Goodrich, John C Fortney, JoAnn E Kirchner, Leif I Solberg, Deborah Main, Mark S Bauer, Julia Kyle, Susan A Murphy, Kristina M Nord, Marshall R Thomas

Open Access Study protocol

Improvement of care for ICU patients with delirium by early screening and treatment: study protocol of iDECePTIvE study

Erwin Ista, Zoran Trogrlic, Jan Bakker, Robert Jan Osse, Theo van Achterberg, Mathieu van der Jagt

Open Access Study protocol

Discontinuation of cART postpartum in a high prevalence district of South Africa in 2014

Lore Claessens, Anna Voce, Stephen Knight, Benn Sartorius, Ashraf Coovadia

Open Access Research

Evidence summaries (decision boxes) to prepare clinicians for shared decision-making with patients: a mixed methods implementation study

Anik MC Giguere, Michel Labrecque, R Brian Haynes, Roland Grad, Pierre Pluye, France Légaré, Michel Cauchon, Matthew Greenway, Pierre-Hugues Carmichael

Open Access Systematic review

Are multifaceted interventions more effective than single-component interventions in changing health-care professionals' behaviours? An overview of systematic reviews

Janet E Squires, Katrina Sullivan, Martin P Eccles, Julia Worswick, Jeremy M Grimshaw

Open Access Study protocol

Optimizing polypharmacy among elderly hospital patients with chronic diseases—study protocol of the cluster randomized controlled POLITE-RCT trial

Christin Löffler, Eva Drewelow, Susanne D Paschka, Martina Frankenstein, Julia Eger, Lisa Jatsch, Emil C Reisinger, Johannes F Hallauer, Bernd Drewelow, Karen Heidorn, Helmut Schröder, Anja Wollny, Gönther Kundt, Christian Schmidt, Attila Altiner

Open Access Study protocol

Implementing and evaluating a program to facilitate chronic disease prevention and screening in primary care: a mixed methods program evaluation

Donna Patricia Manca, Kris Aubrey-Bassler, Kami Kandola, Carolina Aguilar, Denise Campbell-Scherer, Nicolette Sopcak, Mary Ann O'Brien, Christopher Meaney, Vee Faria, Julia Baxter, Rahim Moineddin, Ginetta Salvalaggio, Lee Green, Andrew Cave, Eva Grunfeld

Open Access Research

Drivers of telemedicine use: comparative evidence from samples of Spanish, Colombian and Bolivian physicians

Francesc Saigí-Rubió, Joan Torrent-Sellens, Ana Jiménez-Zarco

Open Access Study protocol

Study protocol of an economic evaluation of an extended implementation strategy for the treatment of low back pain in general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Cathrine Elgaard Jensen, Allan Riis, Kjeld Møller Pedersen, Martin Bach Jensen, Karin Dam Petersen

Open Access Research

The roles and influence of actors in the uptake of evidence: the case of malaria treatment policy change in Uganda

Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Miriam Nanyunja, Bruno Marchal, Bart Criel, Freddie Ssengooba

Open Access Study protocol

A cross-sectional survey of supports for evidence-informed decision-making in healthcare organisations: a research protocol

Mathieu Ouimet, John N Lavis, Grégory Léon, Moriah E Ellen, Pierre-Olivier Bédard, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Marie-Pierre Gagnon

Open Access Study protocol

Impact of pharmacy worker training and deployment on access to essential medicines and health outcomes in Malawi: protocol for a cluster quasi-experimental evaluation

Solomon J Lubinga, Alisa M Jenny, Erin Larsen-Cooper, Jessica Crawford, Charles Matemba, Andy Stergachis, Joseph B Babigumira

Open Access Study protocol

A randomised controlled trial of an intervention to increase the implementation of a healthy canteen policy in Australian primary schools: study protocol

Luke Wolfenden, Nicole Nathan, Christopher M Williams, Tessa Delaney, Kathryn L Reilly, Megan Freund, Karen Gillham, Rachel Sutherland, Andrew C Bell, Libby Campbell, Serene Yoong, Rebecca Wyse, Lisa M Janssen, Sarah Preece, Melanie Asmar, John Wiggers

Open Access Research

Factors influencing rheumatologists’ prescription of biological treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: an interview study

Almina Kalkan, Kerstin Roback, Eva Hallert, Per Carlsson

Open Access Research

Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial: designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705)

Karen N Barnett, Marion Bennie, Shaun Treweek, Christopher Robertson, Dennis J Petrie, Lewis D Ritchie, Bruce Guthrie

Open Access Study protocol

Protocol for the process evaluation of interventions combining performance-based financing with health equity in Burkina Faso

Valéry Ridde, Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Aurélia Souares, Julia Lohmann, David Zombré, Jean Louis Koulidiati, Maurice Yaogo, Hervé Hien, Matthew Hunt, Sylvie Zongo, Manuela De Allegri

Open Access Research

Evaluation of two implementation strategies in 51 child county public service systems in two states: results of a cluster randomized head-to-head implementation trial

C Hendricks Brown, Patricia Chamberlain, Lisa Saldana, Courtenay Padgett, Wei Wang, Gracelyn Cruden

Open Access Research

Improving the organization of palliative care: identification of barriers and facilitators in five European countries

Jasper van Riet Paap, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Frederike Brouwer, Franka Meiland, Steve Iliffe, Nathan Davies, Wojciech Leppert, Birgit Jaspers, Elena Mariani, Ragni Sommerbakk, Kris Vissers, Yvonne Engels

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluating the uptake and effects of the computerized decision support system NHGDoc on quality of primary care: protocol for a large-scale cluster randomized controlled trial

Marjolein Lugtenberg, Gert P Westert, Dennis Pasveer, Trudy van der Weijden, Rudolf B Kool

Open Access Study protocol

Development and testing of an implementation strategy for a complex housing intervention: protocol for a mixed methods study

Dennis P Watson, Jeani Young, Emily Ahonen, Huiping Xu, Macey Henderson, Valery Shuman, Randi Tolliver

Open Access Research

Implementation of a self-management support approach (WISE) across a health system: a process evaluation explaining what did and did not work for organisations, clinicians and patients

Anne Kennedy, Anne Rogers, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Thomas Blakeman, Robert Bowen, Caroline Gardner, Victoria Lee, Rebecca Morris, Joanne Protheroe

Open Access Study protocol

Comparing traditional and participatory dissemination of a shared decision making intervention (ADAPT-NC): a cluster randomized trial

Hazel Tapp, Andrew McWilliams, Thomas Ludden, Lindsay Kuhn, Yhenneko Taylor, Thamara Alkhazraji, Jacquie Halladay, Diane Derkowski, Sveta Mohanan, Michael Dulin

Open Access Research

Exchanging and using research evidence in health policy networks: a statistical network analysis

Jessica C Shearer, Michelle Dion, John N Lavis

Open Access Research

Mapping barriers and intervention activities to behaviour change theory for Mobilization of Vulnerable Elders in Ontario (MOVE ON), a multi-site implementation intervention in acute care hospitals

Julia E Moore, Alekhya Mascarenhas, Christine Marquez, Ummukulthum Almaawiy, Wai-Hin Chan, Jennifer D’Souza, Barbara Liu, Sharon E Straus

Open Access Study protocol

A geographical cluster randomised stepped wedge study of continuing medical education and cancer diagnosis in general practice

Berit Skjødeberg Toftegaard, Flemming Bro, Peter Vedsted

Open Access Research

Spreading and sustaining best practices for home care of older adults: a grounded theory study

Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid, Barbara Davies, Kathryn Higuchi, Wendy Gifford, Irmajean Bajnok, Heather McConnell, Jennifer Plenderleith, Sandra Foster, Sue Bookey-Bassett

Open Access Research

Data for improvement and clinical excellence: report of an interrupted time series trial of feedback in long-term care

Anne E Sales, Corinne Schalm, Melba Andrea B Baylon, Kimberly D Fraser

Open Access Research

Potential determinants of health-care professionals’ use of survivorship care plans: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework

Sarah A Birken, Justin Presseau, Shellie D Ellis, Adrian A Gerstel, Deborah K Mayer

Open Access Research

Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems: an analysis of observational and interventional studies grounded in complexity science

Luci K Leykum, Holly J Lanham, Jacqueline A Pugh, Michael Parchman, Ruth A Anderson, Benjamin F Crabtree, Paul A Nutting, William L Miller, Kurt C Stange, Reuben R McDaniel

Open Access Research

A complementary marriage of perspectives: understanding organizational social context using mixed methods

Rinad S Beidas, Courtney L Benjamin Wolk, Lucia M Walsh, Arthur C Evans, Matthew O Hurford, Frances K Barg

Open Access Systematic review

Using the Knowledge to Action Framework in practice: a citation analysis and systematic review

Becky Field, Andrew Booth, Irene Ilott, Kate Gerrish

Open Access Research

Leveraging practice-based research networks to accelerate implementation and diffusion of chronic kidney disease guidelines in primary care practices: a prospective cohort study

James W Mold, Cheryl B Aspy, Paul D Smith, Therese Zink, Lyndee Knox, Paula Darby Lipman, Margot Krauss, D Robert Harris, Chester Fox, Leif I Solberg, Rachel Cohen

Open Access Research

Implementation of multidimensional knowledge translation strategies to improve procedural pain in hospitalized children

Bonnie J Stevens, Janet Yamada, Sara Promislow, Jennifer Stinson, Denise Harrison, J Charles Victor

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluation of a health systems knowledge translation network for Africa (KTNET): a study protocol

Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, David R Walugembe, Moses Tetui, Angela N Kisakye, Elizeus Rutebemberwa, Freddie Sengooba, Rornald M Kananura, Michel Wensing, Suzanne N Kiwanuka

Open Access Study protocol

Improving outcomes of hospitalized patients: the Physician Relationships, Improvising, and Sensemaking intervention protocol

Luci K Leykum, Holly J Lanham, Shannon M Provost, Reuben R McDaniel, Jacqueline Pugh

Open Access Research

Research funder required research partnerships: a qualitative inquiry

Shannon L Sibbald, Jacqueline Tetroe, Ian D Graham

Open Access Research

Enablers and barriers to using patient decision aids in early stage breast cancer consultations: a qualitative study of surgeons’ views

Mary Ann O’Brien, Cathy Charles, Peter Lovrics, Frances C Wright, Tim Whelan, Marko Simunovic, Erin Kennedy, Eva Grunfeld

Open Access Research

Using the collaborative intervention planning framework to adapt a health-care manager intervention to a new population and provider group to improve the health of people with serious mental illness

Leopoldo J Cabassa, Arminda P Gomes, Quisqueya Meyreles, Lucia Capitelli, Richard Younge, Dianna Dragatsi, Juana Alvarez, Yamira Manrique, Roberto Lewis-Fernández

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Assessing organizational readiness for depression care quality improvement: relative commitment and implementation capability

Lisa V Rubenstein, Marjorie S Danz, A Lauren Crain, Russell E Glasgow, Robin R Whitebird, Leif I Solberg

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Practice change toward better adherence to evidence-based treatment of early dental decay in the National Dental PBRN

Donald Brad Rindal, Thomas J Flottemesch, Emily U Durand, Olga V Godlevsky, Andrew M Schmidt, Gregg H Gilbert

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Barriers, facilitators and views about next steps to implementing supports for evidence-informed decision-making in health systems: a qualitative study

Moriah E Ellen, Grégory Léon, Gisèle Bouchard, Mathieu Ouimet, Jeremy M Grimshaw, John N Lavis

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Stakeholders’ contributions to tailored implementation programs: an observational study of group interview methods

Elke Huntink, Jan van Lieshout, Eivind Aakhus, Richard Baker, Signe Flottorp, Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, Cornelia Jäger, Anna Kowalczyk, Joachim Szecsenyi, Michel Wensing

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Improving community case management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in district Badin, Pakistan through a cluster randomised study—the NIGRAAN trial protocol

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Mixed-method study of a conceptual model of evidence-based intervention sustainment across multiple public-sector service settings

Gregory A Aarons, Amy E Green, Cathleen E Willging, Mark G Ehrhart, Scott C Roesch, Debra B Hecht, Mark J Chaffin

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MyPreventiveCare: implementation and dissemination of an interactive preventive health record in three practice-based research networks serving disadvantaged patients—a randomized cluster trial

Alex H Krist, Rebecca A Aycock, Rebecca S Etz, Jennifer E Devoe, Roy T Sabo, Robert Williams, Karen L Stein, Gary Iwamoto, Jon Puro, Jon Deshazo, Paulette Lail Kashiri, Jill Arkind, Crystal Romney, Miria Kano, Christine Nelson, Daniel R Longo, Susan Wolver, Steven H Woolf

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Evaluation of quality improvement for cesarean sections programmes through mixed methods

Clara Bermúdez-Tamayo, Mira Johri, Francisco Jose Perez-Ramos, Gracia Maroto-Navarro, Africa Caño-Aguilar, Leticia Garcia-Mochon, Longinos Aceituno, François Audibert, Nils Chaillet

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Understanding evidence: a statewide survey to explore evidence-informed public health decision-making in a local government setting

Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters, Laurence Moore, Maureen Dobbins, Tahna Pettman, Cate Burns, Boyd Swinburn, Laurie Anderson, Mark Petticrew

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A multifaceted quality improvement intervention for CVD risk management in Australian primary healthcare: a protocol for a process evaluation

Bindu Patel, Anushka Patel, Stephen Jan, Tim Usherwood, Mark Harris, Katie Panaretto, Nicholas Zwar, Julie Redfern, Jesse Jansen, Jenny Doust, David Peiris

Open Access Editorial

Economic evaluation of implementation strategies in health care

Ties Hoomans, Johan L Severens

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Towards a common terminology: a simplified framework of interventions to promote and integrate evidence into health practices, systems, and policies

Heather Colquhoun, Jennifer Leeman, Susan Michie, Cynthia Lokker, Peter Bragge, Susanne Hempel, K Ann McKibbon, Gjalt-Jorn Y Peters, Kathleen Stevens, Michael G Wilson, Jeremy Grimshaw

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Local politico-administrative perspectives on quality improvement based on national registry data in Sweden: a qualitative study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

Mio Fredriksson, Ann Catrine Eldh, Sofie Vengberg, Tobias Dahlström, Christina Halford, Lars Wallin, Ulrika Winblad

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Enhancing outreach for persons with serious mental illness: 12-month results from a cluster randomized trial of an adaptive implementation strategy

Amy M Kilbourne, Daniel Almirall, David E Goodrich, Zongshan Lai, Kristen M Abraham, Kristina M Nord, Nicholas W Bowersox

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Use of action planning to increase provision of smoking cessation care by general practitioners: role of plan specificity and enactment

Marjolein EA Verbiest, Justin Presseau, Niels H Chavannes, Margreet Scharloo, Ad A Kaptein, Willem JJ Assendelft, Mathilde R Crone

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Evaluating the effect of a web-based quality improvement system with feedback and outreach visits on guideline concordance in the field of cardiac rehabilitation: rationale and study protocol

Mariëtte M van Engen-Verheul, Nicolette F de Keizer, Sabine N van der Veer, Hareld MC Kemps, Wilma JM Scholte op Reimer, Monique WM Jaspers, Niels Peek

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Looking inside the black box: results of a theory-based process evaluation exploring the results of a randomized controlled trial of printed educational messages to increase primary care physicians’ diabetic retinopathy referrals [Trial registration number ISRCTN72772651]

Jeremy M Grimshaw, Justin Presseau, Jacqueline Tetroe, Martin P Eccles, Jill J Francis, Gaston Godin, Ian D Graham, Janet E Hux, Marie Johnston, France Légaré, Louise Lemyre, Nicole Robinson, Merrick Zwarenstein

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Printed educational messages aimed at family practitioners fail to increase retinal screening among their patients with diabetes: a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN72772651]

Merrick Zwarenstein, Susan K Shiller, Ruth Croxford, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Diane Kelsall, J Michael Paterson, Andreas Laupacis, Peter C Austin, Karen Tu, Lingsong Yun, Janet E Hux

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Updated recommendations: an assessment of NICE clinical guidelines

Laura Martínez García, Emma McFarlane, Steven Barnes, Andrea Juliana Sanabria, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Philip Alderson

Open Access Methodology

Operationalizing the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the impact of multi-sector partnerships

Shane N Sweet, Kathleen A Martin Ginis, Paul A Estabrooks, Amy E Latimer-Cheung

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A patient-centered network approach to multidisciplinary-guideline development: a process evaluation

Elvira ME Den Breejen, Mirrian AHW Hilbink, Willianne LDM Nelen, Tjerk J Wiersma, Jako S Burgers, Jan AM Kremer, Rosella PMG Hermens

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Adaptation of an evidence-based intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening: a quasi-experimental study

Shin-Ping Tu, Alan Chun, Yutaka Yasui, Alan Kuniyuki, Mei-Po Yip, Vicky Taylor, Roshan Bastani

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The development of effective behaviour change interventions to support the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests by Tanzanian clinicians

Clare I R Chandler, Judith Meta, Célia Ponzo, Fortunata Nasuwa, John Kessy, Hilda Mbakilwa, Ane Haaland, Hugh Reyburn

Open Access Commentary

The use of segmented regression in analysing interrupted time series studies: an example in pre-hospital ambulance care

Monica Taljaard, Joanne E McKenzie, Craig R Ramsay, Jeremy M Grimshaw

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Integrating addiction treatment into primary care using mobile health technology: protocol for an implementation research study

Andrew R Quanbeck, David H Gustafson, Lisa A Marsch, Fiona McTavish, Randall T Brown, Marie-Louise Mares, Roberta Johnson, Joseph E Glass, Amy K Atwood, Helene McDowell

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Conditions for production of interdisciplinary teamwork outcomes in oncology teams: protocol for a realist evaluation

Dominique Tremblay, Nassera Touati, Danièle Roberge, Jean-Louis Denis, Annie Turcotte, Benoît Samson

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Implementation and evaluation of the 5As framework of obesity management in primary care: design of the 5As Team (5AsT) randomized control trial

Denise L Campbell-Scherer, Jodie Asselin, Adedayo M Osunlana, Sheri Fielding, Robin Anderson, Christian F Rueda-Clausen, Jeffrey A Johnson, Ayodele A Ogunleye, Andrew Cave, Donna Manca, Arya M Sharma

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The practice of ‘doing’ evaluation: lessons learned from nine complex intervention trials in action

Joanna Reynolds, Deborah DiLiberto, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Evelyn K Ansah, Sham Lal, Hilda Mbakilwa, Katia Bruxvoort, Jayne Webster, Lasse S Vestergaard, Shunmay Yeung, Toby Leslie, Eleanor Hutchinson, Hugh Reyburn, David G Lalloo, David Schellenberg, Bonnie Cundill, Sarah G Staedke, Virginia Wiseman, Catherine Goodman, Clare IR Chandler

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Design, implementation, and evaluation of a knowledge translation intervention to increase organ donation after cardiocirculatory death in Canada: a study protocol

Janet E Squires, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Monica Taljaard, Stefanie Linklater, Michaël Chassé, Sam D Shemie, Gregory A Knoll

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Community-based implementation and effectiveness in a randomized trial of a risk reduction intervention for HIV-serodiscordant couples: study protocol

Alison B Hamilton, Brian S Mittman, John K Williams, Honghu H Liu, Alicia M Eccles, Craig S Hutchinson, Gail E Wyatt

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The preferences of users of electronic medical records in hospitals: quantifying the relative importance of barriers and facilitators of an innovation

Marjolijn HL Struik, Ferry Koster, A Jantine Schuit, Rutger Nugteren, Jorien Veldwijk, Mattijs S Lambooij

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Knowledge translation: a case study on pneumonia research and clinical guidelines in a low- income country

Sophie Goyet, Hubert Barennes, Therese Libourel, Johan van Griensven, Roger Frutos, Arnaud Tarantola

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Examining the ethical and social issues of health technology design through the public appraisal of prospective scenarios: a study protocol describing a multimedia-based deliberative method

Pascale Lehoux, Philippe Gauthier, Bryn Williams-Jones, Fiona A Miller, Jennifer R Fishman, Myriam Hivon, Patrick Vachon

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A qualitative systematic review of studies using the normalization process theory to research implementation processes

Rachel McEvoy, Luciana Ballini, Susanna Maltoni, Catherine A O’Donnell, Frances S Mair, Anne MacFarlane

Open Access Systematic review

Guidance for updating clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review of methodological handbooks

Robin WM Vernooij, Andrea Juliana Sanabria, Ivan Solà, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Laura Martínez García

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An open cluster-randomized, 18-month trial to compare the effectiveness of educational outreach visits with usual guideline dissemination to improve family physician prescribing

Daniel Pinto, Bruno Heleno, David S Rodrigues, Ana Luísa Papoila, Isabel Santos, Pedro A Caetano

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Village doctor-assisted case management of rural patients with schizophrenia: protocol for a cluster randomized control trial

Wenjie Gong, Dong Xu, Liang Zhou, Henry Shelton Brown III, Kirk L Smith, Shuiyuan Xiao

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Understanding diagnosis and management of dementia and guideline implementation in general practice: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework

Kerry Murphy, Denise A O’Connor, Colette J Browning, Simon D French, Susan Michie, Jill J Francis, Grant M Russell, Barbara Workman, Leon Flicker, Martin P Eccles, Sally E Green

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How collaborative are quality improvement collaboratives: a qualitative study in stroke care

Pam Carter, Piotr Ozieranski, Sarah McNicol, Maxine Power, Mary Dixon-Woods

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Thrombolysis ImPlementation in Stroke (TIPS): evaluating the effectiveness of a strategy to increase the adoption of best evidence practice – protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in acute stroke care

Christine L Paul, Christopher R Levi, Catherine A D’Este, Mark W Parsons, Christopher F Bladin, Richard I Lindley, John R Attia, Frans Henskens, Erin Lalor, Mark Longworth, Sandy Middleton, Annika Ryan, Erin Kerr, Robert W Sanson-Fisher

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Supporting collaborative use of the diabetes population risk tool (DPoRT) in health-related practice: a multiple case study research protocol

Laura Rosella, Leslea Peirson, Catherine Bornbaum, Kathy Kotnowski, Michael Lebenbaum, Randy Fransoo, Patricia Martens, Patricia Caetano, Carla Ens, Charles Gardner, David Mowat

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Expert recommendations for implementing change (ERIC): protocol for a mixed methods study

Thomas J Waltz, Byron J Powell, Matthew J Chinman, Jeffrey L Smith, Monica M Matthieu, Enola K Proctor, Laura J Damschroder, JoAnn E Kirchner

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De-implementation of expensive blood saving measures in hip and knee arthroplasties: study protocol for the LISBOA-II cluster randomized trial

Veronique MA Voorn, Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Cynthia So-Osman, Ad A Kaptein, Anja van der Hout, M Elske van den Akker-van Marle, Ankie WMM Koopman-van Gemert, Albert Dahan, Rob GHH Nelissen, Thea PMM Vliet Vlieland, Leti van Bodegom-Vos

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Evaluating an audit and feedback intervention for reducing antibiotic prescribing behaviour in general dental practice (the RAPiD trial): a partial factorial cluster randomised trial protocol

Maria Prior, Paula Elouafkaoui, Andrew Elders, Linda Young, Eilidh M Duncan, Rumana Newlands, Jan E Clarkson, Craig R Ramsay