Premium
Implementation Science to Advance Care Delivery: A Primer for Pharmacists and Other Health Professionals
Author(s) -
Livet Melanie,
Haines Stuart T.,
Curran Geoffrey M.,
Seaton Terry L.,
Ward Caryn S.,
Sorensen Todd D.,
Roth McClurg Mary
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pharmacotherapy: the journal of human pharmacology and drug therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.227
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1875-9114
pISSN - 0277-0008
DOI - 10.1002/phar.2114
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , health care , nursing , quality (philosophy) , medicine , health care delivery , medical education , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
Health care is experiencing increasing pressure to implement evidence‐based interventions that improve quality, control costs, and maximize value. Unfortunately, many clinical services and interventions to optimize medication use do not consistently produce the intended humanistic, clinical, and economic outcomes. The lack of conclusive results is believed to stem from the widely recognized research‐to‐practice gap. The field of implementation science seeks to discover and apply strategies designed to accelerate successful integration of interventions into routine practice. This primer provides an overview of implementation science principles for pharmacists and other health care providers interested in accelerating practice transformation to improve health care delivery and, ultimately, patient care.