To standardize and improve the reporting quality of implementation studies, BMJ published the standards for reporting implementation studies (StaRI). This paper introduces the background and process of StaRI development, and interprets the core content of StaRI. It is expected that StaRI will provide support for domestic researchers to carry out implementation studies and writing implementation research reports.
As evidence-based practice (EBP) continues to be valued, the guideline implementation has become an important field for research and practice in health care. In order to better guide the guideline implementation in the field of health care, this paper combines the EBP experience gained from several EBP programs carried out in our hospital those years, in aim of exploring and sharing the methodology of guideline implementation in domestic clinical settings.
Implementation science is a relatively emergent and growing research area. Implementation research can assist to transform what is possible in theory to reality in practice and address the challenge of implementing proven interventions in the real world. Implementation research has a wide range of usages and complex research problems, so appropriate research methods, designs, and outcomes variables are required to address different research objectives. To better conduct implementation research, this paper systematically introduces the research designs, outcome variables, and reporting guideline of the implementation research in health care, based on the purposes and research questions of implementation research.
Implementation science is a new field that aims to scale up and sustain the application of evidence-based practice. It primarily studies the dissemination, adoption, evaluation, and improvement, etc. of the implementation process of evidence-based practice. In recent years, tens of implementation theories, frameworks and models have been developed. We systematically collected 41 of them and classified them into several categories. The first is the classical theories which are extended from the traditional social science and used as the predecessors of the implementation science. The second category is the implementation science frameworks/models that are derived from the first category, and can be divided into four groups: 1) the implementation models that explain the law of a certain aspect in the implementation; 2) the implementation determinants frameworks that summarize and classify the implementation determinants; 3) the process models that discuss how research translates into practice; 4) the evaluation models that evaluate the implementation and outcome. The implementation science theories can provide implementation researchers with valuable guidance for development of implementation strategies and evaluation of implementation outcomes.
The consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) extracted, analyzed and integrated many published theories, frameworks and models of implementation research, and provided a comprehensive and practical theoretical framework for researchers to explore the influencing factors in the implementation of evidence. This paper introduces the origin, core content and application examples of CFIR in evidence-based nursing practice, in order to provide reference for researchers to use CFIR to carry out implementation research.
Effectiveness-implementation hybrid designs can test the effectiveness of interventions and the outcomes of implementation strategies concurrently and accelerate the transformation of research results into routine practice. This paper introduced three types of effectiveness-implementation hybrid designs and corresponding reporting guidelines, including standards for reporting implementation studies, cluster randomized design and CONSORT 2010, stepped-wedge cluster randomized design and extended version CONSORT 2018, qualitative research and COREQ reporting guideline, and provide references for domestic researchers to produce research reports on effectiveness-implementation hybrid design.
Evidence-based evidence translated into health care services requires three conversion processes, preclinical research-clinical research-implementation research, which might take a very long time. In order to speed up the process of research results translated into daily medical practice and health policy, an effectiveness-implementation hybrid design combining the effectiveness research of clinical and implementation research was emerging. This paper introduced the concept, classification and application of effectiveness-implementation hybrid design, to provide references for researchers in this area.
Implementation science is a systematic research approach that promotes the integration of research findings and evidence-based practices into routine clinical practice. It has been a crucial topic in scientific inquiry. As the notion of ‘implementation science’ has evolved and associated theoretical and practical methodologies have been refined, researchers in this field have devised implementation strategies to address the determinants of implementation (barriers and facilitators) for clinical interventions, evidence-based practices, or novel technologies in clinical practice. The development of implementation strategies aims to foster the adoption and dissemination of innovations. This article offers a comprehensive introduction to the definition of implementation strategies, the process of selecting appropriate implementation strategies, the associated documentation and reporting procedures, with the aim of providing valuable references for enhancing future implementation research efforts.
The RE-AIM framework is the most commonly used framework for implementation research outcome evaluation, with the original paper cited 2 800 times. However, in the specific operationalization process of the framework, there are often situations of misuse or overuse of various dimensions and indicators. This article provides a detailed introduction to the main content, application scenarios, and characteristics of the RE-AIM framework. Taking the implementation research of Evidence-based Practice Guidelines for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment of Stroke as an example, it introduces how to use the silent & anonymous feedback technology, which combines the improved Delphi method and nominal group technique, to construct an implementation outcome indicator evaluation system to achieve the operability of the RE-AIM framework. This will provide a reference for other researchers to use implementation science theories, models, and frameworks to develop implementation plans or evaluate implementation outcomes.
The consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR) is one of the most commonly used theoretical frameworks for implementation science. The updated CFIR was optimized based on the original version. The background, process and contents of the updated CFIR were introduced, and the domains and constructs of the updated CFIR were interpreted in this article. We analyzed the similarities and differences of the updated CFIR compared with the original CFIR, in order to provide methodological references for Chinese researchers to explore the determinants of implementation.