Implementation fidelity: a framework for evaluation in the health information technology field.
Health information technology evaluators need to distinguish between intervention efficacy as assessed in the ideal circumstances of clinical trials and intervention effectiveness as assessed in the real world circumstances of actual practice. We have developed a framework for implementation fidelity evaluation with methods for estimating intervention effectiveness and efficacy. We apply this framework to evaluate an ongoing health information technology clinical trial.
Eisenstein
Eric L
EL
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Lobach
David F
DF
Montgomery
Paul
P
Kawamoto
Kensaku
K
Anstrom
Kevin J
KJ
D019058:Community Networks; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000379:methods*