What is Implementation Science?

The scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based interventions, programs and innovations into routine practice

Implementation science seeks to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services and care through the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based interventions, programs, innovations into routine practice.

It includes the study of influences on healthcare professional and organisational behaviour, across different settings including clinical, community and policy.

Implementation science studies how to ensure that practice is driven by evidence, and the best ways to help make evidence-based interventions become standard care.

And in cases where implementation has been successful, implementation science asks what can be learnt from those successes, and what can be used or adapted to help implement other evidence-based health interventions.