- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 The Promise and Challenges of Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 2 Terminology for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 3 Historical Roots of Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 4 Ethical Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 5 The Conceptual Basis for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 6 The Role of Economic Evaluation in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 7 Designing for Dissemination in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
- 8 The Role of Organizational Processes in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 9 Systems Thinking and Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 10 Systems Science Methods in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 11 Participatory Approaches for Study Design and Analysis in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 12 Enhancing Dissemination Though Marketing and Distribution Systems A Vision for Public Health
- 13 Design and Analysis in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 14 Measurement Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 15 Implementation Strategies
- 16 Fidelity and Its Relationship to Implementation Effectiveness, Adaptation, and Dissemination
- 17 Adaptation in Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 18 Furthering Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 19 Evaluation Approaches for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 20 Mixed Methods Evaluation in Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 21 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Community and Public Health Settings
- 22 Dissemination and Implementation in Social Service Settings
- 23 Implementation Science in Health Care
- 24 Health Dissemination and Implementation Within Schools
- 25 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Worksites
- 26 Policy Dissemination Research
- 27 Dissemination and Implementation Research among Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Vulnerable Populations
- 28 Dissemination and Implementation Research in a Global Context
- 29 Future Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- Index
Furthering Dissemination and Implementation Research
Furthering Dissemination and Implementation Research
The Need for More Attention to External Validity
- Chapter:
- (p.301) 18 Furthering Dissemination and Implementation Research
- Source:
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
- Author(s):
Lawrence W. Green
Mona Nasser
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter raises questions about the reliability of much “evidence-based practice” disseminated from the original studies and systematic reviews of those studies, insofar as they were often conducted and reviewed with inadequate attention to external validity. Important issues are raised for dissemination and implementation researchers. Indeed, the pressure on investigators to provide for increasingly rigorous controls on threats to internal validity, and to exclude studies that fall below standards for internal validity, has made many such sources of evidence more suspect in their external validity and less credible to the practitioners or policymakers who would adopt them. Greater attention is needed to ways to incorporate considerations of external validity into studies and in systematic reviews of studies to produce more generalizable evidence, and greater attention to practice-based evidence that can complement the more formal evidence-based practices in the process of implementing and evaluating the dissemination and implementation process
Keywords: context, evidence, external validity, internal validity, generalizability, practice-based evidence, threats to external validity
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 The Promise and Challenges of Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 2 Terminology for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 3 Historical Roots of Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 4 Ethical Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 5 The Conceptual Basis for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 6 The Role of Economic Evaluation in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 7 Designing for Dissemination in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management
- 8 The Role of Organizational Processes in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 9 Systems Thinking and Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 10 Systems Science Methods in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 11 Participatory Approaches for Study Design and Analysis in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 12 Enhancing Dissemination Though Marketing and Distribution Systems A Vision for Public Health
- 13 Design and Analysis in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 14 Measurement Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 15 Implementation Strategies
- 16 Fidelity and Its Relationship to Implementation Effectiveness, Adaptation, and Dissemination
- 17 Adaptation in Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 18 Furthering Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 19 Evaluation Approaches for Dissemination and Implementation Research
- 20 Mixed Methods Evaluation in Dissemination and Implementation Science
- 21 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Community and Public Health Settings
- 22 Dissemination and Implementation in Social Service Settings
- 23 Implementation Science in Health Care
- 24 Health Dissemination and Implementation Within Schools
- 25 Dissemination and Implementation Research in Worksites
- 26 Policy Dissemination Research
- 27 Dissemination and Implementation Research among Racial/Ethnic Minority and Other Vulnerable Populations
- 28 Dissemination and Implementation Research in a Global Context
- 29 Future Issues in Dissemination and Implementation Research
- Index
