National Institutes of Health Approaches to Dissemination and Implementation Science: Current and Future Directions

Overview

Journal Am J Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2012 May 19

PMID 22594758

Citations 396

Authors

Russell E Glasgow

Cynthia Vinson

David Chambers

Muin J Khoury

Robert M Kaplan

Christine Hunter

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Abstract

To address the vast gap between current knowledge and practice in the area of dissemination and implementation research, we address terminology, provide examples of successful applications of this research, discuss key sources of support, and highlight directions and opportunities for future advances. There is a need for research testing approaches to scaling up and sustaining effective interventions, and we propose that further advances in the field will be achieved by focusing dissemination and implementation research on 5 core values: rigor and relevance, efficiency, collaboration, improved capacity, and cumulative knowledge.

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