A compilation of strategies for implementing clinical innovations in health and mental health.
Efforts to identify, develop, refine, and test strategies to disseminate and implement evidence-based treatments have been prioritized in order to improve the quality of health and mental health care delivery. However, this task is complicated by an implementation science literature characterized by inconsistent language use and inadequate descriptions of implementation strategies. This article brings more depth and clarity to implementation research and practice by presenting a consolidated compilation of discrete implementation strategies, based on a review of 205 sources published between 1995 and 2011. The resulting compilation includes 68 implementation strategies and definitions, which are grouped according to six key implementation processes: planning, educating, financing, restructuring, managing quality, and attending to the policy context. This consolidated compilation can serve as a reference to stakeholders who wish to implement clinical innovations in health and mental health care and can facilitate the development of multifaceted, multilevel implementation plans that are tailored to local contexts.
George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. bjpowell@wustl.edu
Byron J
BJ
Powell
J Curtis
JC
McMillen
Enola K
EK
Proctor
Christopher R
CR
Carpenter
Richard T
RT
Griffey
Alicia C
AC
Bunger
Joseph E
JE
Glass
Jennifer L
JL
York
D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health