National Institutes of Health Approaches to Dissemination and Implementation Science: Current and Future Directions.

Glasgow RE, Vinson C, Chambers D, Khoury MJ, Kaplan RM, Hunter C.

Source

Russell E. Glasgow, Cynthia Vinson, and Muin J. Khoury are with the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. David Chambers is with the Division of Services and Interventions Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD. Robert M. Kaplan is with the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Christine Hunter is with the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD.

Abstract

To address the vast gap between current knowledge and practice in the area of dissemination and implementation research, we address terminology, provide examples of successful applications of this research, discuss key sources of support, and highlight directions and opportunities for future advances. There is a need for research testing approaches to scaling up and sustaining effective interventions, and we propose that further advances in the field will be achieved by focusing dissemination and implementation research on 5 core values: rigor and relevance, efficiency, collaboration, improved capacity, and cumulative knowledge.