Identification as an implementation study, and description of the methodology in the title and/or keywords
| Examples - Titles |
| Accessibility, clinical effectiveness, and practice costs of providing a telephone option for routine asthma reviews: phase IV controlled implementation study.18 |
| Adaptive Implementation of Effective Programs Trial (ADEPT): cluster randomized SMART trial comparing a standard versus enhanced implementation strategy to improve outcomes of a mood disorders program.19 |
| Explanation In addition to specifying the study design used (eg, cluster RCT, controlled before-and-after study, mixed-methods, economic evaluation, etc), it is important to identify the work explicitly as an implementation study, so that indexers, readers and systematic reviewers can easily identify relevant studies. The study design and ‘implementation study’ should both be included as key words and in the abstract. |