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April 6, 2021 SHARE
Moving scientific research results into public health and patient care more quickly could have a significant impact on health equity, finds a new paper from researchers at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Implementation science is the study of methods and strategies that help to speed evidence-based practice and research into regular use by public health and medical practitioners.
“The rallying call for implementation science is that it takes 17 years for 14% of original research to reach patient care this is sometimes called the ‘biomedical valley of death,’” said Ross Brownson, the Steven H. and Susan U. Lipstein Distinguished Professor and a leading researcher on dissemination and implementation science.