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Scoping Implementation Science for the Beginner: Locating Yourself on the "Subway Line" Of Translational Research.

Lane-Fall MB, Curran GM, Beidas RS

Published

June 27th, 2019

Appears In

BMC Medical Research Methodology

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Abstract

Beginners to the discipline of implementation science often struggle to determine whether their research questions “count” as implementation science.

 

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.

 

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.

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