Implementation science: Helping healthcare systems improve

George L Jackson¹, Sarah L Cutrona, Amy Kilbourne+3

• ¹George L. Jackson is a research health scientist and director of the Implementation and Improvement Science Lab at the Center of Innovation to Accelerate Discovery and Practice Transformation (ADAPT) in the Durham (N.C.) VA Health Care System, associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University. Sarah L. Cutrona is a physician researcher at the Center for Healthcare Organization & Implementation Research at the Bedford and Boston VA Medical Centers in Massachusetts and associate professor and interim division chief in the Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass. Amy Kilbourne is director of the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative at the Veterans Health Administration in Washington, D.C., and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Brandolyn S. White is a research health scientist at ADAPT at the Durham VA Health Care System. Christine Everett is an associate professor in the PA program in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Laura J. Damschroder is a research health scientist in the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor (Mich.) Healthcare System. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs, US government, or other organizations with which the authors are affiliated. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.