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ArticleFrontiers in health services2022

Conceptual tensions and practical trade-offs in tailoring implementation interventions.

Sheena M McHugh, Fiona Riordan, Geoff M Curran, Cara C Lewis, Luke Wolfenden, Justin Presseau, Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Byron J Powell

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Article in Frontiers in health services, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Tailored interventions to address determinants of practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sheena M McHughSchool of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Fiona RiordanSchool of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Geoff M CurranDepartment of Pharmacy Practice and Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States.
Cara C LewisMacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States.
Luke WolfendenCollege of Medicine, Health and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Justin PresseauClinical Epidemiology, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Rebecca Lengnick-HallCenter for Mental Health Services Research, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.
Byron J PowellCenter for Mental Health Services Research, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States.

Funding

MECHANISMS: The MECHANics of Implementation Strategies and MeasureSR01CA262325 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WEINER, BRYAN J. · 2021 to 2023
$2.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA262325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tailored interventions have been shown to be effective and tailoring is a popular process with intuitive appeal for researchers and practitioners. However, the concept and process are ill-defined in implementation science. Descriptions of how tailoring has been applied in practice are often absent or insufficient in detail. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to synthesize and replicate efforts. It also hides the trade-offs for researchers and practitioners that are inherent in the process. In this article we juxtapose the growing prominence of tailoring with four key questions surrounding the process. Specifically, we ask: (1) what constitutes tailoring and when does it begin and end?; (2) how is it expected to work?; (3) who and what does the tailoring process involve?; and (4) how should tailoring be evaluated? We discuss these questions as a call to action for better reporting and further research to bring clarity, consistency, and coherence to tailoring, a key process in implementation science.

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chronic diseasecommentaryconceptimplementation sciencetailoring

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PMID36925816
PMCPMC10012756

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