Implementing Exercise in Healthcare Settings: The Potential of Implementation Science

Overview

Journal Sports Med

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2019 Nov 22

PMID 31749112

Citations 18

Authors

Louise Czosnek

Nicole Rankin

Eva Zopf

Justin Richards

Simon Rosenbaum

Prue Cormie

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Abstract

Exercise is an efficacious therapy for many chronic diseases. Integrating efficacious evidence-based interventions (EBIs), such as exercise, into daily healthcare practice is a slow and complex pursuit. Implementation science seeks to understand and address this phenomenon by conducting studies about the methods used to promote the routine uptake of EBIs. The purpose of this article is to explore implementation science and a common conceptual framework in the discipline, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), as it applies to exercise EBI. We conclude by offering recommendations for future research that leverage implementation science priorities to highlight the potential of this research field for advancing the implementation of exercise EBI.

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