Evaluating the Successful Implementation of Evidence Into Practice Using the PARiHS Framework: Theoretical and Practical Challenges


 
Language:

English

Author:

Kitson AL et al.

Series/Journal Title:

Implementation Science

Volume:

3

Issue:

1

Description:

The PARiHS framework (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services) has proved to be a useful practical and conceptual heuristic for many researchers and practitioners in framing their research or knowledge translation endeavors. However, as a conceptual framework it still remains untested and therefore its contribution to the overall development and testing of theory in the field of implementation science is largely unquantified.

This paper provides an integrated summary of the conceptual and theoretical thinking thus far regarding PARiHS. It introduces a typology used to distinguish between the terms conceptual framework, theory and model

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