Quality Implementation Toolkit

Quality Implementation 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 evidence-based practices, interventions, and policies into routine healthcare and public health settings to improve the impact on population health.

Getting Started

This toolkit is designed around the Quality Implementation Framework (QIF) from "The quality implementation framework: a synthesis of critical steps in implementation process" by Meyers, Durlak, and Wandersman. The QIF is a synthesis of 25 frameworks across various disciplines to build a meta-framework that will provide implementation teams with a roadmap to bring innovations from  research and from local improvement efforts into practice in a way that enhances their adoption and sustainment.

Click here to view an overview of the toolkit (video).

Tool Selection Checklist

The Quality Implementation Toolkit is not intended to be used mechanically from start to finish for each implementation project. Rather, the toolkit is a resource from which you are encouraged to select the package of tools that is the optimal mix given your needs, what you already know, and your available resources and time. For example, if you already have adequate knowledge of your organizational context, you may not need to collect detailed data once again. Similarly, if your time and resources are short, you may choose to stay away from tools that involve significant effort to implement. To guide you in your tool selection, we have provided you with a tool selection checklist that provides a guided set of questions for you to determine whether a particular tool is relevant for your project. The checklist is not intended to be for self-use – it is intended to be used by a trained implementation scientist who can guide your team through the question and can facilitate a discussion about the most important tools for your context. If you do not have an implementation scientist on your team, you can still use the checklist to provide you with some guidance on the purpose of each tool so you can make some informed decisions about its utility for your project, but without underlying knowledge about the tools, you may find the toolkit difficult to use.

Tool Selection Checklist (downloadable tool)

Four Phases of the QIF

The QIF consists of four temporal phases and 14 action-oriented steps. That builds, applies, and monitors the progress on two types of capacities:

Innovation-specific capacity - the necessary knowledge, skills and motivation that are required for effective use of the innovation.
General capacity - effective structure and functional factors.