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  1. Despite applications of models of care and organizational or system-level interventions to improve patient outcomes for chronic disease, consistent improvements have not been achieved. This may reflect a misma...

    Authors: Luci K Leykum, Michael Parchman, Jacqueline Pugh, Valerie Lawrence, Polly H Noël and Reuben R McDaniel Jr

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:66

    Content type: Systematic Review

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  2. Both low back pain (LBP) and neck pain (NP) are major occupational health problems. In the workplace, participatory ergonomics (PE) is frequently used on musculoskeletal disorders. However, evidence on the eff...

    Authors: Maurice T Driessen, Karin I Proper, Johannes R Anema, Paulien M Bongers and Allard J van der Beek

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:65

    Content type: Research article

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  3. Low back pain (LBP) and neck pain (NP) are common among workers. Participatory Ergonomics (PE) is used as an implementation strategy to prevent these symptoms. By following the steps of PE, working groups comp...

    Authors: Maurice T Driessen, Karin Groenewoud, Karin I Proper, Johannes R Anema, Paulien M Bongers and Allard J van der Beek

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:64

    Content type: Research article

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  4. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) has invested significant resources in designing and implementing a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) that supports clinical priorities. EHRs in general have b...

    Authors: Laura M Bonner, Carol E Simons, Louise E Parker, Elizabeth M Yano and JoAnn E Kirchner

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:63

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Depression and related disorders represent a significant part of general practitioners (GPs) daily work. Implementing the evidence about what works for depression care into routine practice presents a challeng...

    Authors: Jane M Gunn, Victoria J Palmer, Christopher F Dowrick, Helen E Herrman, Frances E Griffiths, Renata Kokanovic, Grant A Blashki, Kelsey L Hegarty, Caroline L Johnson, Maria Potiriadis and Carl R May

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:62

    Content type: Research article

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  6. In the UK, most funding bodies now expect a commitment or effort on the part of grant holders to disseminate the findings of their research. The emphasis is on ensuring that publicly funded research is made av...

    Authors: Paul M Wilson, Mark Petticrew, Michael W Calnan and Irwin Nazareth

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:61

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Contrary to recommendations in a national clinical guideline, baseline audits from five community-based stroke rehabilitation teams demonstrated an evidence-practice gap; only 17% of eligible people with strok...

    Authors: Annie McCluskey and Sandy Middleton

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:59

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Rather than searching the entire MEDLINE database, clinicians can perform searches on a filtered set of articles where relevant information is more likely to be found. Members of our team previously developed ...

    Authors: Salimah Z Shariff, Meaghan S Cuerden, R Brian Haynes, K Ann McKibbon, Nancy L Wilczynski, Arthur V Iansavichus, Mark R Speechley, Amardeep Thind and Amit X Garg

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:58

    Content type: Study protocol

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  10. It is well documented that the translation of knowledge into clinical practice is a slow and haphazard process. This is no less true for dental healthcare than other types of healthcare. One common policy stra...

    Authors: Jan E Clarkson, Craig R Ramsay, Martin P Eccles, Sandra Eldridge, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Marie Johnston, Susan Michie, Shaun Treweek, Alan Walker, Linda Young, Irene Black, Debbie Bonetti, Heather Cassie, Jill Francis, Gillian MacKenzie, Lorna MacPherson…

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:57

    Content type: Study protocol

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  12. Multiple uncontrolled medical conditions may act as competing demands for clinical decision making. We hypothesized that multiple uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors would decrease blood pressure (BP) med...

    Authors: Amanda H Salanitro, Ellen Funkhouser, Bonita S Agee, Jeroan J Allison, Jewell H Halanych, Thomas K Houston, Mark S Litaker, Deborah A Levine and Monika M Safford

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:55

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Despite the impact of hypertension and widely accepted target values for blood pressure (BP), interventions to improve BP control have had limited success.

    Authors: Hayden B Bosworth, Daniel Almirall, Bryan J Weiner, Mathew Maciejewski, Miriam A Kaufman, Benjamin J Powers, Eugene Z Oddone, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Teresa M Damush, Valerie Smith, Maren K Olsen, Daren Anderson, Christianne L Roumie, Susan Rakley, Pamela S Del Monte, Michael E Bowen…

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:54

    Content type: Study protocol

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  14. A regional integrated cancer network has implemented a program (educational workshops, reflective and mentoring activities) designed to support the uptake of evidence-informed interprofessional collaborative p...

    Authors: Dominique Tremblay, Danielle Drouin, Ariella Lang, Danièle Roberge, Judith Ritchie and Anne Plante

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:53

    Content type: Study protocol

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  15. Quality indicators are increasingly used in healthcare but there are various barriers hindering their routine use. To promote the use of quality indicators, an exploration of the barriers to and facilitating f...

    Authors: Maartje LG de Vos, Sabine N van der Veer, Wilco C Graafmans, Nicolette F de Keizer, Kitty J Jager, Gert P Westert and Peter HJ van der Voort

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:52

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Finnish clinical guidelines are evolving toward integration of knowledge modules into the electronic health record in the Evidence-Based Medicine electronic Decision Support project. It therefore became import...

    Authors: Tiina Kortteisto, Minna Kaila, Jorma Komulainen, Taina Mäntyranta and Pekka Rissanen

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:51

    Content type: Research article

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  17. Insight into the frequency and seriousness of potentially unsafe situations may be the first step towards improving patient safety. Most patient safety attention has been paid to patient safety in hospitals. H...

    Authors: Mirjam Harmsen, Sander Gaal, Simone van Dulmen, Eimert de Feijter, Paul Giesen, Annelies Jacobs, Lucie Martijn, Theodorus Mettes, Wim Verstappen, Ria Nijhuis-van der Sanden and Michel Wensing

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:50

    Content type: Study protocol

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  18. Social networks are theorized as significant influences in the innovation adoption and behavior change processes. Our understanding of how social networks operate within healthcare settings is limited. As a re...

    Authors: Anne E Sales, Carole A Estabrooks and Thomas W Valente

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:49

    Content type: Study protocol

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  19. In the last few years, a new non-pharmacological treatment, termed apheresis, has been developed to lessen the burden of ulcerative colitis (UC). Several methods can be used to establish treatment recommendati...

    Authors: Nora Ibargoyen-Roteta, Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Rosa Rico-Iturrioz, Marta López-Argumedo, Eva Reviriego-Rodrigo, Jose Luis Cabriada-Nuño and Holger J Schünemann

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:48

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Maps and mapping tools through geographic information systems (GIS) are highly valuable for turning data into useful information that can help inform decision-making and knowledge translation (KT) activities. ...

    Authors: S Michelle Driedger, Anita Kothari, Ian D Graham, Elizabeth Cooper, Eric J Crighton, Melanie Zahab, Jason Morrison and Michael Sawada

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:47

    Content type: Research article

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  21. The Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA) is a measure of organizational readiness for implementing practice change in healthcare settings that is organized based on the core elements and sub-el...

    Authors: Hildi J Hagedorn and Paul W Heideman

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:46

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Healthcare professionals are increasingly using wikis as collaborative tools to create, synthesize, share, and disseminate knowledge in healthcare. Because wikis depend on collaborators to keep content up-to-d...

    Authors: Patrick M Archambault, France Légaré, André Lavoie, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jean Lapointe, Sylvie St-Jacques, Julien Poitras, Karine Aubin, Sylvain Croteau and Martin Pham-Dinh

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:45

    Content type: Study protocol

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  23. Regional networks have been recognized as an interesting model to support interdisciplinary and inter-organizational interactions that lead to meaningful care improvements. Existing communities of practice wit...

    Authors: Lise Poissant, Sara Ahmed, Richard J Riopelle, Annie Rochette, Hélène Lefebvre and Deborah Radcliffe-Branch

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:44

    Content type: Study protocol

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  24. Patient safety is an ongoing global priority, with medication safety considered a prevalent, high-risk area of concern. Yet, we have little understanding of the supports and barriers to safe medication managem...

    Authors: Patricia B Marck, Ariella Lang, Marilyn Macdonald, Melissa Griffin, Anthony Easty and Serena Corsini-Munt

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:43

    Content type: Study protocol

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  25. Practice registry measurement provides a foundation for quality improvement, but experiences in practice are not widely reported. One setting where practice registry measurement has been implemented is the Hea...

    Authors: David A Haggstrom, Steven B Clauser and Stephen H Taplin

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:42

    Content type: Research

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  26. An important gap exists between research production and its utilization. Few studies have examined the factors affecting knowledge utilization in the field of child and family social services.

    Authors: François Chagnon, Louise Pouliot, Claire Malo, Marie-Joëlle Gervais and Marie-Ève Pigeon

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:41

    Content type: Research article

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  27. To achieve widespread cancer control, a better understanding is needed of the factors that contribute to successful implementation of effective skin cancer prevention interventions. This study assessed the rel...

    Authors: Borsika A Rabin, Eric Nehl, Tom Elliott, Anjali D Deshpande, Ross C Brownson and Karen Glanz

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:40

    Content type: Research article

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  29. 'Protocol based care' was envisioned by policy makers as a mechanism for delivering on the service improvement agenda in England. Realistic evaluation is an increasingly popular approach, but few published exa...

    Authors: Jo Rycroft-Malone, Marina Fontenla, Debra Bick and Kate Seers

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:38

    Content type: Methodology

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  30. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded nine Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs). Each CLAHRC is a partnership between higher education institutions...

    Authors: Andria Hanbury, Carl Thompson, Paul M Wilson, Kate Farley, Duncan Chambers, Erica Warren, John Bibby, Russell Mannion, Ian S Watt and Simon Gilbody

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:37

    Content type: Study protocol

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  31. Increasingly, multiple intervention programming is being understood and implemented as a key approach to developing public health initiatives and strategies. Using socio-ecological and population health perspe...

    Authors: Lynne M MacLean, Kathryn Clinton, Nancy Edwards, Michael Garrard, Lisa Ashley, Patti Hansen-Ketchum and Audrey Walsh

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:36

    Content type: Debate

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  32. To improve hypertension care for ethnic minority patients of African descent in the Netherlands, we developed a provider intervention to facilitate the delivery of culturally appropriate hypertension education...

    Authors: Erik JAJ Beune, Patrick JE Bindels, Jacob Mohrs, Karien Stronks and Joke A Haafkens

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:35

    Content type: Short report

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  33. Nursing work environments (NWEs) in Canada and other Western countries have increasingly received attention following years of restructuring and reported high workloads, high absenteeism, and shortages of nurs...

    Authors: Donna MJ Schalk, Marloes LP Bijl, Ruud JG Halfens, Louk Hollands and Greta G Cummings

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:34

    Content type: Systematic Review

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  34. Community-based organizations (CBOs) are important stakeholders in health systems and are increasingly called upon to use research evidence to inform their advocacy, program planning, and service delivery effo...

    Authors: Michael G Wilson, John N Lavis, Robb Travers and Sean B Rourke

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:33

    Content type: Debate

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  35. A commonly recommended strategy for increasing research use in clinical practice is to identify barriers to change and then tailor interventions to overcome the identified barriers. In nursing, the BARRIERS sc...

    Authors: Kerstin Nilsson Kajermo, Anne-Marie Boström, David S Thompson, Alison M Hutchinson, Carole A Estabrooks and Lars Wallin

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:32

    Content type: Systematic Review

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  36. One way to improve quality and safety in healthcare organizations (HCOs) is through accreditation. Accreditation is a rigorous external evaluation process that comprises self-assessment against a given set of ...

    Authors: Marie-Pascale Pomey, Louise Lemieux-Charles, François Champagne, Doug Angus, Abdo Shabah and André-Pierre Contandriopoulos

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:31

    Content type: Research article

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  37. The electronic health record (EHR) is an important application of information and communication technologies to the healthcare sector. EHR implementation is expected to produce benefits for patients, professio...

    Authors: Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Mathieu Ouimet, Gaston Godin, Michel Rousseau, Michel Labrecque, Yvan Leduc and Anis Ben Abdeljelil

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:30

    Content type: Study protocol

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  38. Practice guidelines (PGs) are systematically developed statements intended to assist in patient, practitioner, and policy decisions. The AGREE II is the revised and updated standard tool for guideline developm...

    Authors: Melissa C Brouwers, Julie Makarski and Anthony J Levinson

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:29

    Content type: Study protocol

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  39. This study investigates approaches for translating evidence-based knowledge for use by fitness trainers. Specific questions were: Where do fitness trainers get their evidence-based information? What types of i...

    Authors: Dawn Stacey, Michael Hopkins, Kristi B Adamo, Risa Shorr and Denis Prud'homme

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:28

    Content type: Systematic Review

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  40. Survivors of transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke are at high risk for recurrent vascular events and aggressive treatment of vascular risk factors can reduce this risk. However, vascular risk factors, esp...

    Authors: Finlay A McAlister, Sumit R Majumdar, Rajdeep S Padwal, Miriam Fradette, Ann Thompson, Ross Tsuyuki, Steven A Grover, Naeem Dean and Ashfaq Shuaib

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:27

    Content type: Study protocol

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  41. Opioid prescribing for chronic pain is common and controversial, but recommended clinical practices are followed inconsistently in many clinical settings. Strategies for increasing adherence to clinical practi...

    Authors: Jodie A Trafton, Susana B Martins, Martha C Michel, Dan Wang, Samson W Tu, David J Clark, Jan Elliott, Brigit Vucic, Steve Balt, Michael E Clark, Charles D Sintek, Jack Rosenberg, Denise Daniels and Mary K Goldstein

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:26

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Psychological models are used to understand and predict behaviour in a wide range of settings, but have not been consistently applied to health professional behaviours, and the contribution of differing theori...

    Authors: Debbie Bonetti, Marie Johnston, Jan E Clarkson, Jeremy Grimshaw, Nigel B Pitts, Martin Eccles, Nick Steen, Ruth Thomas, Graeme Maclennan, Liz Glidewell and Anne Walker

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:25

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Hypertension guidelines recommend the use of thiazide diuretics as first-line therapy for uncomplicated hypertension, yet diuretics are under-prescribed, and hypertension is frequently inadequately treated. Th...

    Authors: Colin D Buzza, Monica B Williams, Mark W Vander Weg, Alan J Christensen, Peter J Kaboli and Heather Schacht Reisinger

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:24

    Content type: Research article

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  44. This qualitative evaluation follows a randomized-control trial of a patient activation intervention in which hypertensive patients received a letter in the mail asking them to discuss thiazide diuretics with t...

    Authors: Stacey A Pilling, Monica B Williams, Rachel Horner Brackett, Ryan Gourley, Mark W Vander Weg, Alan J Christensen, Peter J Kaboli and Heather Schacht Reisinger

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:23

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Experimentation with continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes is well underway in Indigenous Australian primary health care. To date, little research into how health organizations take up, support, and e...

    Authors: Karen L Gardner, Michelle Dowden, Samantha Togni and Ross Bailie

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:21

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Studies included in a related systematic review used a variety of statistical methods to summarise clinical behaviour and to compare proxy (or indirect) and direct (observed) methods of measuring it. The objec...

    Authors: Heather O Dickinson, Susan Hrisos, Martin P Eccles, Jill Francis and Marie Johnston

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:20

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Despite the widespread use of quality improvement collaboratives (QICs), evidence underlying this method is limited. A QIC is a method for testing and implementing evidence-based changes quickly across organis...

    Authors: Leti Vos, Michel LA Dückers, Cordula Wagner and Godefridus G van Merode

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:19

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Several studies document disparities in access to care and quality of care for depression for African Americans. Research suggests that patient attitudes and clinician communication behaviors may contribute to...

    Authors: Lisa A Cooper, Daniel E Ford, Bri K Ghods, Debra L Roter, Annelle B Primm, Susan M Larson, James M Gill, Gary J Noronha, Elias K Shaya and Nae-Yuh Wang

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:18

    Content type: Study protocol

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  50. Many interventions shown to be effective through clinical trials are not readily implemented in clinical practice. Unfortunately, little is known regarding how clinicians construct their perceptions of the eff...

    Authors: Florian Vogt, David Armstrong and Theresa M Marteau

    Citation: Implementation Science 2010 5:17

    Content type: Research article

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