King's College London

Implementation science is the study of methods and strategies to promote the adoption, implementation and sustained uptake of evidenced-based interventions into routine practice, with the aim of improving health outcomes and services.

Within this relatively new field, implementation research stakeholders have highlighted a need for criteria that can be used to objectively assess the quality of implementation research.

Researchers within the Centre for Implementation Science at King’s College London are leading a project to develop and evaluate a new tool designed to do just that: the Implementation Science Research Project Appraisal Criteria (ImpResPAC) tool.

The ImpResPAC quantitative tool is designed to evaluate the conceptual and methodological quality of implementation research, and is primarily intended to be used by grant reviewers and educators.

The new tool is based on the structure and content of the Implementation Science Research development (ImpRes) tool and supplementary guide, which advises implementation research teams and practitioners working in healthcare on how to design high-quality implementation science research and projects.