This report addresses the need for health services research on implementation and dissemination, addressing calls in the United Kingdom for more T3 research [ 23] and in the USA for more T2 research [ 24].
The impact of the offer of screening is the variable of primary interest for health policy decisions on implementation of screening offers, whereas the effect of actual use of screening (compared with non-use) is the parameter of primary interest for individual patient consulting and patient decisions.
Focusing on health systems implementation research, this article details key advantages of quasi-experiments and argues that they can complement (but not replace) randomized evaluations.
We aim to shed light on these issues and, more broadly, contribute to the small body of literature on health policy implementation in developing countries [ 15, 16].
More broadly, drawing on governance ideas from the policy implementation literature, the article contributes to the still limited literature on health policy implementation in LMICs (Gilson and Raphaely 2008; Sheikh et al. 2011).
When Infection Control practitioners are educating and influencing healthcare workers, compliance with the well-established guidance on implementation of health service research is advisable, and thus educative efforts must be repeated and administered as part of a concerted and multifaceted approach.
They propose that, unlike clinical interventions, public health interventions require more evidence on implementation and sustainability, and local evidence is seen as more credible (Woelk et al. 2009).
The policy dilemma is not, therefore, whether contrimoxazole should be continued – it should – but how much to spend on implementation initiatives and health systems strengthening to ensure its continued availability in health centres.
This paper reports on the development and formative evaluation of an e-Health Implementation Toolkit (e-HIT) which aims to summarise and synthesise new and existing research on implementation of e-Health initiatives, and present it to senior managers in a user-friendly format.
Research into the feasibility of different options and their effects on implementation could help health care planners make informed decisions on the best way to deliver case management.
In this evaluation we sought to calculate incremental costs, that is, the additional costs that would be incurred by NHS trusts on implementation of mental health nurse supplementary prescribing.
