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Background: Implementation research is the scientific study of methods to promote realization of research findings. High-quality implementation research is critical to enhancing evidence quality, strengthening health policy, improving health services, increasing access to effective interventions, and ensuring sustainable health systems. World Health Organization (WHO) has realized the serious situation, stating ‘stronger emphasis should be placed on translating knowledge into action by bridging the gap of what is known and actually done’. Since 2010, a new research platform has been founding by WHO to enhance the skills. This urgent request conveys implications in contemporary China, which faces many health problems as a result of dramatic social dynamics.
Objectives: To identify the current development of implementation research in China and to increase the involvement and teaching activities in topical issues in China timely.
Methods: We searched the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Science Citation Index, PubMed and Chinese Medical Broad (up to February 2012) using the terms ‘implementation research’ ‘knowledge translation’ by Chinese researchers.
Results: Two hundred and twenty-one relevant records were retrieved. There was one proposal by Chinese researchers selected for funding on strategies to implement interventions by WHO. There was no other review linked to physician performance and health policy by Chinese published.
Conclusions: Although there has been a global overview of gaps in the progress towards strengthening capacity for it in low-, middle- and high-income countries, evidence-based interventions, which played important role in shaping health policy, tested elsewhere may be used in developed areas in China. Chinese researchers need to contend with lots of challenging issues from descriptive researches to intervention studies. There is still a growing demand for more implementation researches in order to establish evidence-based decision making. It is necessary to conduct more translation practice to shorten distance from research to practice.
Objectives: To identify the current development of implementation research in China and to increase the involvement and teaching activities in topical issues in China timely.
Methods: We searched the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Science Citation Index, PubMed and Chinese Medical Broad (up to February 2012) using the terms ‘implementation research’ ‘knowledge translation’ by Chinese researchers.
Results: Two hundred and twenty-one relevant records were retrieved. There was one proposal by Chinese researchers selected for funding on strategies to implement interventions by WHO. There was no other review linked to physician performance and health policy by Chinese published.
Conclusions: Although there has been a global overview of gaps in the progress towards strengthening capacity for it in low-, middle- and high-income countries, evidence-based interventions, which played important role in shaping health policy, tested elsewhere may be used in developed areas in China. Chinese researchers need to contend with lots of challenging issues from descriptive researches to intervention studies. There is still a growing demand for more implementation researches in order to establish evidence-based decision making. It is necessary to conduct more translation practice to shorten distance from research to practice.