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Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Jul 18;4(10):699-701. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.133.

How Single Is "Single" - Some Pragmatic Reflections on Single Versus Multifaceted Interventions to Facilitate Implementation: Comment on "Translating Evidence Into Healthcare Policy and Practice: Single Versus Multifaceted Implementation Strategies - Is There a Simple Answer to a Complex Question?".

International journal of health policy and management

Ann Catrine Eldh, Lars Wallin

Affiliations

  1. School of Education, Health, and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden.
  2. Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

PMID: 26673184 PMCID: PMC4594114 DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.133

Abstract

An earlier overview of systematic reviews and a subsequent editorial on single-component versus multifaceted interventions to promote knowledge translation (KT) highlight complex issues in implementation science. In this supplemented commentary, further aspects are in focus; we propose examples from (KT) studies probing the issue of single interventions. A main point is that defining what is a single and what is a multifaceted intervention can be ambiguous, depending on how the intervention is conceived. Further, we suggest additional perspectives in terms of strategies to facilitate implementation. More specifically, we argue for a need to depict not only what activities are done in implementation interventions, but to unpack functions in particular contexts, in order to support the progress of implementation science.

© 2015 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

Keywords: Facilitation; Implementation; Knowledge Translation (KT); Multifaceted Interventions; Single Interventions

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