Implementation Science Toolkit
Implementation Science
Implementation is the action of putting something into practice or use. Implementation is purposeful, involves action, and tends to be temporally bound. Implementation science is "the study of methods to promote the adoption and integration of evidencebased practices, interventions, and policies into routine healthcare and public health settings to improve the impact on population health."
Implementation Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to be a comprehensive resource to guide implementation activities. The toolkit includes training, feedback mechanisms, facilitation support, and decision matrixes. Through the toolkit clinicians and support teams, QI specialists, data analysist, and project managers can expand their capabilities to use systemic implementation methods and continuously evaluate and optimize their effectiveness in overcoming barriers that naturally arise as part of implementation projects. The toolkit is flexible and customizable. Through the Tool Selection worksheet, teams will have a framework that enables them to analyze their need and use to toolkit to develop an implementation plan only using the tools that meet their need.
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​Tool Selection Worksheet (downloadable tool)
Four Phases of the QIF
Cincinnati Children's is using the Quality Implementation Framework (QIF) from "The quality implementation framework: a synthesis of critical steps in implementation process" by Meyers, Durlak, and Wandersman as our quality improvement framework for PCORI HSII grants. The QIF is a synthesis of 25 frameworks across various disciplines to build a meta-framework that will allow implementation teams to bring innovations found in research into practice, all the while maintaining necessary standards to achieve innovations' outcomes and adapting these innovations to site specific circumstances.
The QIF consists of four temporal phases and 14 action-oriented steps. That builds, applies, and monitors the progress on two types of capacities.
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Innovation-specific capacity - the necessary knowledge, skills and motivation that are required for effective use of the innovation
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General capacity - effective structure and functional factors.​
Meyers DC, Durlak JA, Wandersman A. The quality implementation framework: a synthesis of critical steps in the implementation process. Am J Community Psychol. 2012;50(3-4):462-480. doi:10.1007/s10464-012-9522-x