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Implementation Research for Health Systems

Methods for Studying What Happens Next

  • Author Dr. Farhan Qureshi · All India Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Author Dr. Lakshmi Pillai · Christian Medical College, Vellore

About this book

Efficacy trials tell you whether an intervention can work. This book is about the harder question of whether it does, once a district health system has to deliver it on its own budget with its own staff. Qureshi and Pillai set out the designs, the sampling logic and the reporting standards for implementation research, illustrated throughout with worked examples from South Asian and Latin American health systems, including several studies that failed and what was learned from them.

Table of contents

  1. Why Effectiveness Is Not Implementation10.53456/book.2025.implementati.01p. 1
  2. Designs: Hybrid Types I, II and III10.53456/book.2025.implementati.02p. 34
  3. Choosing and Defending Your Outcomes10.53456/book.2025.implementati.03p. 78
  4. Qualitative Methods That Survive Peer Review10.53456/book.2025.implementati.04p. 121
  5. Process Data and Time-Stamped Evidence10.53456/book.2025.implementati.05p. 167
  6. Reporting: StaRI, COREQ and the Checklists10.53456/book.2025.implementati.06p. 209
  7. Six Studies That Failed10.53456/book.2025.implementati.07p. 248
  8. Writing It Up Honestly10.53456/book.2025.implementati.08p. 301

Every chapter carries its own DOI and can be cited independently of the volume.