Abstract
Background: Beginners to the discipline of implementation science often struggle to determine whether their research questions "count" as implementation science. Main text: In this paper, three implementation scientists share a heuristic tool to help investigators determine where their research questions fall in the translational research continuum. They use a "subway model" that envisions a journey to implementation research with stops along the way at efficacy and effectiveness research. Conclusions: A series of structured questions about intervention efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation can help guide researchers to select research questions and appropriate study designs along the spectrum of translational research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 133 |
| Journal | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jun 28 2019 |
Funding
Dr. Beidas receives salary support from the National Institutes of Health (T32 MH109433 [Beidas, Mandell] and P50MH113840 [Beidas, Mandell, Volpp/ Buttenheim]). The funding body had no role in generating the idea for the manuscript or in writing, revising, or approving the manuscript. Study design, data collection, and analysis are not applicable to this manuscript, which does not describe empirical research.
Keywords
- Implementation science
- Knowledge translation
- Translational research
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Informatics
- Epidemiology