Interdisciplinary Priorities for Dissemination, Implementation, and Improvement Science: Frameworks, Mechanics, and Measures.
Much of dissemination, implementation, and improvement (DII) science is conducted by social scientists, healthcare practitioners, and biomedical researchers. While each of these groups has its own venues for sharing methods and findings, forums that bring together the diverse DII science workforce provide important opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration and learning. In particular, such forums are uniquely positioned to foster the sharing of three important components of research. First: they allow the sharing of conceptual frameworks for DII science that focus on the use and spread of innovations. Second: they provide an opportunity to share strategies for initiating and governing DII research, including approaches for eliciting and incorporating the research priorities of patients, study participants, and healthcare practitioners, and decision-makers. Third: they allow the sharing of outcome measures well-suited to the goals of DII science, thereby helping to validate these outcomes in diverse contexts, improving the comparability of findings across settings, and elevating the study of the implementation process itself.
University of California, Los Angeles Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, USA.
Julian W
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Brunner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ibrahima C
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Sankaré
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.|RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Katherine L
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Kahn
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D002140:California; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies; D010358:Patient Participation; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D014495:Universities
collaboration; diffusion; dissemination; framework; governance; implementation; improvement; outcomes; research; workforce