Background Primary care is an important setting in which to treat tobacco addiction.
However, the rates at which providers address smoking cessation and the success of that …

Background Schools increasingly provide mental health services to students, but often lack
access to implementation strategies to support school-based (and school professional [SP]) …

Background Healthcare facilitation, an implementation strategy designed to improve the
uptake of effective clinical innovations in routine practice, has produced promising yet mixed …

Background: The EvidenceNOW initiative provided smaller primary care practices with
external support interventions to implement quality improvement strategies focused on …

Introduction Cardiovascular disease risk calculators can inform and guide preventive
strategies and treatment decisions by clinicians and patients. However, their uptake in …

Introduction: To examine the association of prior investment on the effectiveness of
organizations delivering large-scale external support to improve primary care. Methods …

Abstract Background Healthy Hearts Northwest (H2N) is a study of external support
strategies to build quality improvement (QI) capacity in primary care with a focus on …

Background: This study estimates reductions in 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular
disease (ASCVD) risk associated with EvidenceNOW, a multi-state initiative that sought to …

Introduction: When implementing interventions in primary care, tailoring implementation
strategies to practice barriers can be effective, but additional work is needed to understand …

Background: Practice facilitation (PF) is a promising but relatively new intervention
supporting data-driven practice change. There is a need to better detail research-based …