A Compilation of Strategies for Implementing Clinical Innovations in Health and Mental Health

By Byron J. Powell, J. Curtis McMillen, Enola K. Proctor, Christopher R. Carpenter, Richard T. Griffey, Alicia C. Bunger, Joseph E. Glass, J. York. Medical Care Research and Review, 2011

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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.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting (2013, background): “A number of publications provide lists and taxonomies that attempt to reflect the range of these strategies [20,24-26].”
An Overview of Research and Evaluation Designs for Dissemination and Implementation (2017, background): “For example, a comprehensive implementation strategy often requires components that involve system leadership, the clinic level, the clinician level, as well as key processes: planning, educating, financing, restructuring, managing quality, and/or policy (90).”
A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project (2015, methodology): “[10] proposed a consolidated compilation of 68 discrete (as opposed to multifaceted) implementation strategies and definitions based upon a review of the health and mental health literatures.”
Methods to Improve the Selection and Tailoring of Implementation Strategies (2017, positive): “Menu-based choice methods are particularly relevant for obtaining stakeholders’ insights regarding the types of strategies that should be considered among the many that could potentially be applied.(5,8) Menu-based choice methods are useful for generating data that can inform the mass customization ”
Challenges to implementing artificial intelligence in healthcare: a qualitative interview study with healthcare leaders in Sweden (2022, result): “Our results relate well to the implementation science literature, identifying implementation challenges attributable to both external and internal conditions and circumstances [37, 68, 69] and the characteristics of the innovation [37, 63].”
Use of concept mapping to characterize relationships among implementation strategies and assess their feasibility and importance: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) study (2015, background): “[8] reviewed the health and mental health literature (including 41 compilations and reviews) and proposed a compilation of 68 discrete implementation strategies involving one action or process.”
From Classification to Causality: Advancing Understanding of Mechanisms of Change in Implementation Science (2018, background): “org May 2018 | Volume 6 | Article 136 developed by a multidisciplinary team through a structured literature review (20), Delphi process, and concept mapping exercise (19, 21, 22).”
Implementation Mapping: Using Intervention Mapping to Develop Implementation Strategies (2019, methodology): “Implementation Mapping involves five specific tasks: (1) conduct a needs assessment and identify program adopters and implementers; (2) state adoption and implementation outcomes and performance objectives, identify determinants, and create matrices of change objectives; (3) choose theoretical metho”
Enhancing the Impact of Implementation Strategies in Healthcare: A Research Agenda (2019, background): “(4) recommend that researchers name and define strategies in ways that are consistent with the published literature, and carefully operationalize the strategy by specifying: (1) actor(s), (2) action(s), (3) action target(s), (4) temporality, (5) dose, (6) implementation outcomes affected, and (7) th”
The updated Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research based on user feedback (2022, methodology): “Distinguish the innovation (the “thing” that continues when implementation is complete) [20, 25] from the implementation process and strategies used to implement the innovation [26, 27] (activities that end after implementation is complete) [28].”
A practical implementation science heuristic for organizational readiness: R = MC2 (2015, positive): “Readiness is considered a necessary precursor to successful organizational change and is often embedded within larger program planning and implementation frameworks (Aarons, Hurlburt, & Horwitz, 2011; Damschroder et al., 2009; Greenhalgh et al., 2004; Powell et al., 2012).”