RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Improving the Quality of Primary Care by Optimizing Implementation Research Reporting
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 484
OP 487
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2018.03.170195
VO 31
IS 3
A1 Grandes, Gonzalo
A1 Pinnock, Hilary
A1 Bazemore, Andrew
A1 Meissner, Paul
A1 The StaRI Group
YR 2018
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/31/3/484.abstract
AB The potential of implementation research in understanding strategies for changing practice is undermined by poor reporting, leaving readers unable to replicate such strategies and unclear whether they apply in the context of their practice. These challenges are particularly pertinent in the complex, diverse world of primary care. The recently published Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI) provides a framework for comprehensive reporting of implementation research. A key concept is the consideration and reporting in “dual strands”: on the one hand, the implementation strategy and on the other, the evidence-based intervention. Other requirements are full descriptions of context, strategies and interventions (and how the strategies were adopted or adapted), and evaluation methods, which will require flexible interpretation of journal limit constraints or innovative approaches to supplementary information. The choice is between accepting the unsatisfactory status quo or adopting strategies to improve reporting with a view to optimizing the potential of implementation research to advance primary care.