Rycroft-Malone, Jo, Wilkinson, Joyce E., Burton, Christopher R., Andrews, Gavin J., 1970-, Ariss, Steven, Baker, Richard, Dopson, Sue, Graham, Ian D., Harvey, Gill , Martin, Graham P., McCormack, Brendan, Staniszewska, Sophie and Thompson, Carl, DPhil. (2011) Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships : a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). Implementation Science, Vol.6 (No.1). p. 74. ISSN 1748-5908

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Background: The English National Health Service has made a major investment in nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). They have been funded to increase capacity and capability to produce and implement research through sustained interactions between academics and health services. CLAHRCs provide a natural ‘test bed’ for exploring questions about research implementation within a partnership model of delivery. This protocol describes an externally funded evaluation that focuses on implementation mechanisms and processes within three CLAHRCs. It seeks to uncover what works, for whom, how, and in what circumstances. Design and methods: This study is a longitudinal three-phase, multi-method realistic evaluation, which deliberately aims to explore the boundaries around knowledge use in context. The evaluation funder wishes to see it conducted for the process of learning, not for judging performance. The study is underpinned by a conceptual framework that combines the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services and Knowledge to Action frameworks to reflect the complexities of implementation. Three participating CLARHCS will provide indepth comparative case studies of research implementation using multiple data collection methods including interviews, observation, documents, and publicly available data to test and refine hypotheses over four rounds of data collection. We will test the wider applicability of emerging findings with a wider community using an interpretative forum. Discussion: The idea that collaboration between academics and services might lead to more applicable health research that is actually used in practice is theoretically and intuitively appealing; however the evidence for it is limited. Our evaluation is designed to capture the processes and impacts of collaborative approaches for implementing research, and therefore should contribute to the evidence base about an increasingly popular (e.g., Mode two, integrated knowledge transfer, interactive research), but poorly understood approach to knowledge translation. Additionally we hope to develop approaches for evaluating implementation processes and impacts particularly with respect to integrated stakeholder involvement.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Health and Social Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Medical care -- Research
Journal or Publication Title:	Implementation Science
Publisher:	BioMed Central Ltd.
ISSN:	1748-5908
Date:	19 July 2011
Volume:	Vol.6
Number:	No.1
Page Range:	p. 74
Identification Number:	10.1186/1748-5908-6-74
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
Funder:	National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR), Great Britain. Dept. of Health (DoH)
Grant number:	SDO 09/1809/1072 (NIHR)
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