Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials
Implementation assessment plans are crucial for clinical trials to achieve their full potential. Without a proactive plan to implement trial results, it can take decades for one-fifth of effective interventions to be adopted into routine care settings. The Veterans Health Administration Office of Re...
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| author | Christine P. Kowalski Linda M. Kawentel Tassos C. Kyriakides Lori Davis Nicholas W. Bowersox Amy M. Kilbourne Grant D. Huang Andrea L. Nevedal |
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| description | Implementation assessment plans are crucial for clinical trials to achieve their full potential. Without a proactive plan to implement trial results, it can take decades for one-fifth of effective interventions to be adopted into routine care settings. The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development is undergoing a systematic transformation to embed implementation planning in research protocols through the Cooperative Studies Program, its flagship clinical research program. This manuscript has two objectives: 1) to introduce an Implementation Planning Assessment (IPA) Tool that any clinical trialist may use to facilitate post-trial implementation of interventions found to be effective and 2) to provide a case study demonstrating the IPA Tool’s use. The IPA Tool encourages study designers to initially consider rigorous data collection to maximize acceptability of the intervention by end-users. It also helps identify and prepare potential interested parties at local and national leadership levels to ensure, upon trial completion, interventions can be integrated into programs, technologies, and policies in a sustainable way. The IPA Tool can alleviate some of the overwhelming nature of implementation science by providing a practical guide based on implementation science principles for researchers desiring to scale up and spread effective, clinical trial-tested interventions to benefit patients. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35b70d0ca1b74d869c22dd2bb424de042023-03-09T12:31:05ZengCambridge University PressJournal of Clinical and Translational Science2059-86612022-01-01610.1017/cts.2022.467Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trialsChristine P. Kowalski0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6258-0221Linda M. Kawentel1Tassos C. Kyriakides2Lori Davis3Nicholas W. Bowersox4Amy M. Kilbourne5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5815-6401Grant D. Huang6Andrea L. Nevedal7Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Center for Evaluation and Implementation Resources, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USACenter for Evaluation and Implementation Resources, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USACooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, VA CT Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USATuscaloosa VA Medical Center Research Service, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Alabama Heersink School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, AL, USACenter for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Center for Evaluation and Implementation Resources, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USADepartment of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Office of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC, USAOffice of Research and Development, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC, USACenter for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USAImplementation assessment plans are crucial for clinical trials to achieve their full potential. Without a proactive plan to implement trial results, it can take decades for one-fifth of effective interventions to be adopted into routine care settings. The Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development is undergoing a systematic transformation to embed implementation planning in research protocols through the Cooperative Studies Program, its flagship clinical research program. This manuscript has two objectives: 1) to introduce an Implementation Planning Assessment (IPA) Tool that any clinical trialist may use to facilitate post-trial implementation of interventions found to be effective and 2) to provide a case study demonstrating the IPA Tool’s use. The IPA Tool encourages study designers to initially consider rigorous data collection to maximize acceptability of the intervention by end-users. It also helps identify and prepare potential interested parties at local and national leadership levels to ensure, upon trial completion, interventions can be integrated into programs, technologies, and policies in a sustainable way. The IPA Tool can alleviate some of the overwhelming nature of implementation science by providing a practical guide based on implementation science principles for researchers desiring to scale up and spread effective, clinical trial-tested interventions to benefit patients.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866122004678/type/journal_articleImplementation scienceclinical trialsveteransevidence-based innovations translational science |
| spellingShingle | Christine P. Kowalski Linda M. Kawentel Tassos C. Kyriakides Lori Davis Nicholas W. Bowersox Amy M. Kilbourne Grant D. Huang Andrea L. Nevedal Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials Journal of Clinical and Translational Science Implementation science clinical trials veterans evidence-based innovations translational science |
| title | Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials |
| title_full | Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials |
| title_fullStr | Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials |
| title_short | Facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice: The Implementation Planning Assessment Tool for clinical trials |
| title_sort | facilitating future implementation and translation to clinical practice the implementation planning assessment tool for clinical trials |
| topic | Implementation science clinical trials veterans evidence-based innovations translational science |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866122004678/type/journal_article |
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