Situating dissemination and implementation sciences within and across the translational research spectrum.

Aaron L Leppin,Jane E Mahoney,Justin B Moore,Rowena J Dolor,Joan Luby,Enola K Proctor,Kathleen R Stevens,Ana A Baumann,Catherine L Rohweder,Stephen J Bartels,Laura-Mae Baldwin,Paul Meissner,Linda Scholl

doi:10.1017/cts.2019.392

Abstract

The efficient and effective movement of research into practice is acknowledged as crucial to improving population health and assuring return on investment in healthcare research. The National Center for Advancing Translational Science which sponsors Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) recognizes that dissemination and implementation (D&I) sciences have matured over the last 15 years and are central to its goals to shift academic health institutions to better align with this reality. In 2016, the CTSA Collaboration and Engagement Domain Task Force chartered a D&I Science Workgroup to explore the role of D&I sciences across the translational research spectrum. This special communication discusses the conceptual distinctions and purposes of dissemination, implementation, and translational sciences. We propose an integrated framework and provide real-world examples for articulating the role of D&I sciences within and across all of the translational research spectrum. The framework's major proposition is that it situates D&I sciences as targeted "sub-sciences" of translational science to be used by CTSAs, and others, to identify and investigate coherent strategies for more routinely and proactively accelerating research translation. The framework highlights the importance of D&I thought leaders in extending D&I principles to all research stages.

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The National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) was established in 2012 with the goal of hastening the scientific process required to develop and deliver treatments that improve people’s lives
Parallel efforts are underway to educate payers and other stakeholders to support policy changes that will facilitate delivery in clinical mental health settings as well. In this Special Communication, we sought to communicate the relationship between translational science and the sciences of dissemination and implementation (D&I) and to demonstrate a potential expanded role for D&I sciences within and across the spectrum of translational research
In pursuit of this goal, we developed a framework and provided tables and examples to clearly communicate the ways in which D&I sciences can and do support the translational process

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The National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) was established in 2012 with the goal of hastening the scientific process required to develop and deliver treatments that improve people’s lives. IP address: 52.87.236.214, on 02 Nov 2021 at 13:19:02, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. One can imagine several ways in which insights gained from the sciences of dissemination and implementation (D&I) could be adapted to support this aim and enhance translation [4]. For this reason, in 2016, the CTSA consortium’s Collaboration and Engagement Domain Task Force chartered a dissemination, implementation, and knowledge translation workgroup. In 2016, the CTSA consortium’s Collaboration and Engagement Domain Task Force chartered a dissemination, implementation, and knowledge translation workgroup This special communication is a product of that workgroup

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