DISSEMINATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND SUSTAINMENT OF CHANGE IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the importance of designing for dissemination and how to promote your innovation to key stakeholders. Audience: Graduate 2. Differentiate between dissemination and implementation, understand the different D&I frameworks, and have knowledge on how to select the most appropriate framework. Audience: Graduate 3. Understand how selected D&I frameworks CFIR, Re-Aim, EPIS and a selected few other frameworks) have been applied in the field. Audience: Graduate 4. Differentiate between different research designs and evaluation approaches in D&I research, and to understand the difference between the different hybrid trials, and how they have been applied in the field Audience: Graduate 5. Identify the different implementation strategies that can be utilized in D&I research and how selected strategies have been applied in different D&I research studies. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe how different implementation strategies that could be applied in a pharmacy D&I project and discuss the importance of facilitated implementation as an effective implementation strategy Audience: Graduate 7. Describe the different types of outcomes in D&I research, understand how they have been applied in the field, and discuss what these outcomes might look like in a pharmacy setting. Audience: Graduate 8. Understand about D&I research has been applied in other areas of healthcare. Audience: Graduate 9. Discuss the importance of implementation fidelity and understand how to assess fidelity in D&I research. Audience: Graduate 10. Describe the importance of sustainability in D&I research and understand about D&I research has been applied in other areas of healthcare. Audience: Graduate 11. Understand the importance of conducting an economic analysis in D&I research and describe how they might conduct such an analysis. Audience: Graduate 12. Discuss how their peers might apply D&I frameworks, implementation strategies and concepts to conduct a potential implementation study in a pharmacy setting. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the importance of designing for dissemination and how to promote your innovation to key stakeholders. Audience: Graduate 2. Differentiate between dissemination and implementation, understand the different D&I frameworks, and have knowledge on how to select the most appropriate framework. Audience: Graduate 3. Understand how selected D&I frameworks CFIR, Re-Aim, EPIS and a selected few other frameworks) have been applied in the field. Audience: Graduate 4. Differentiate between different research designs and evaluation approaches in D&I research, and to understand the difference between the different hybrid trials, and how they have been applied in the field Audience: Graduate 5. Identify the different implementation strategies that can be utilized in D&I research and how selected strategies have been applied in different D&I research studies. Audience: Graduate 6. Describe how different implementation strategies that could be applied in a pharmacy D&I project and discuss the importance of facilitated implementation as an effective implementation strategy Audience: Graduate 7. Describe the different types of outcomes in D&I research, understand how they have been applied in the field, and discuss what these outcomes might look like in a pharmacy setting. Audience: Graduate 8. Understand about D&I research has been applied in other areas of healthcare. Audience: Graduate 9. Discuss the importance of implementation fidelity and understand how to assess fidelity in D&I research. Audience: Graduate 10. Describe the importance of sustainability in D&I research and understand about D&I research has been applied in other areas of healthcare. Audience: Graduate 11. Understand the importance of conducting an economic analysis in D&I research and describe how they might conduct such an analysis. Audience: Graduate 12. Discuss how their peers might apply D&I frameworks, implementation strategies and concepts to conduct a potential implementation study in a pharmacy setting. Audience: Graduate