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Scoping implementation science for the beginner: locating yourself on the "subway line" of translational research
Meghan B Lane-Fall1,2,3, Geoffrey M Curran4, Rinad S Beidas5,6,7
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. laneme@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Background:
Beginners to the discipline of implementation science often struggle to determine whether their research questions "count" as implementation science.
Main Text:
In this paper, three implementation scientists share a heuristic tool to help investigators determine where their research questions fall in the translational research continuum. They use a "subway model" that envisions a journey to implementation research with stops along the way at efficacy and effectiveness research.
Conclusions:
A series of structured questions about intervention efficacy, effectiveness, and implementation can help guide researchers to select research questions and appropriate study designs along the spectrum of translational research.