- Title
- Effective strategies for scaling up evidence-based practices in primary care: a systematic review
- Creator
- Ben Charif, Ali; Zomahoun, Hervé Tchala Vignon; LeBlanc, Annie; Langlois, Léa; Wolfenden, Luke; Yoong, Sze Lin; Williams, Christopher M.; Lépine, Roxanne; Légaré, France
- Relation
- Implementation Science Vol. 12, Issue 1, no. 139
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0672-y
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Background: While an extensive array of existing evidence-based practices (EBPs) have the potential to improve patient outcomes, little is known about how to implement EBPs on a larger scale. Therefore, we sought to identify effective strategies for scaling up EBPs in primary care. Methods: We conducted a systematic review with the following inclusion criteria: (i) study design: randomized and non-randomized controlled trials, before-and-after (with/without control), and interrupted time series; (ii) participants: primary care-related units (e.g., clinical sites, patients); (iii) intervention: any strategy used to scale up an EBP; (iv) comparator: no restrictions; and (v) outcomes: no restrictions. We searched MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Web of Science, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library from database inception to August 2016 and consulted clinical trial registries and gray literature. Two reviewers independently selected eligible studies, then extracted and analyzed data following theCochrane methodology. We extracted components of scaling-up strategies and classified them into five categories: infrastructure, policy/regulation, financial, human resources-related, and patient involvement. We extracted scaling-up process outcomes, such as coverage, and provider/patient outcomes. We validated data extraction with study authors. Results: We included 14 studies. They were published since 2003 and primarily conducted in low-/middle-income countries (n=11). Most were funded by governmental organizations (n=8). The clinical area most represented was infectious diseases (HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, n=8), followed by newborn/child care (n=4), depression (n=1), and preventing seniors' falls (n=1). Study designs were mostly before-and-after (without control, n=8). The most frequently targeted unit of scaling up was the clinical site (n=11). The component of a scaling-up strategy most frequently mentioned was human resource-related (n=12). All studies reported patient/provider outcomes. Three studies reported scaling-up coverage, but no study quantitatively reported achieving a coverage of 80% in combination with a favorable impact. Conclusions: We found few studies assessing strategies for scaling up EBPs in primary care settings. It is uncertain whether any strategies were effective as most studies focused more on patient/provider outcomes and less on scaling-up process outcomes. Minimal consensus on the metrics of scaling up are needed for assessing the scaling up of EBPs in primary care.
- Subject
- primary care; knowledge translation; scaling up; spread; evidence-based practices; systematic review; implementation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1353655
- Identifier
- uon:31131
- Identifier
- ISSN:1748-5908
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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