Accelerating Psychological Health Research Findings into Clinical Practice Through the Practice-Based Implementation Network Model.
The benefits of new clinical research developments often take years to reach patients. As such, the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs built the Practice-Based Implementation (PBI) Network as an infrastructure to facilitate more rapid translation of psychological health (PH) research into clinical practice changes to improve the quality of care for military and Veteran patients. To regularly identify research findings appropriate for enterprise implementation, the DoD PBI Network developed a model aligned with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to select and pilot PH practice change. Within this model, practice change pilots were selected following a survey of field clinicians, a public call for proposals, annual meeting of implementation science subject matter experts, and final pilot selection by PH strategic leaders. These components facilitated commitment and engagement from Military Health System PH leadership, as well as clinicians, leading to increased stakeholder buy-in and efficiency with selecting and piloting PH practice change. The DoD PBI Network model has been refined for future PH research translation pilots. It serves as a first operational model for annual implementation of PH research findings in the DoD and may be of use to other entities engaged in practice change implementation.
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D055317:Evidence-Based Practice D006801:Humans D008603:Mental Health D012107:Research Design D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
psychological health practice change military implementation science research translation