Guidelines

Common Challenges Encountered in Evaluating Health Behavior Interventions and Remedies

Lists challenges commonly encountered in evaluating health behavior interventions and possible remedies classified by the RE-AIM aspects (reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance).

Systems Analysis for Integrated Policy and Strategy

This document introduces systems thinking tools that are valuable at the early stages of conceptualizing and planning comprehensive policies for complex problems. Four tools are presented: stakeholder analysis, logic modeling, system dynamics modeling, and rapid reviews.

Top Ten Dissemination Mistakes

Lists 10 mistakes that are commonly committed when disseminating evidence-based approaches and offers solutions for them.

Ways to Enhance RE-AIM Outcomes

Questions to ask of potential programs, classified by each of the 5 dimensions of RE-AIM, are provided along with possible solutions to enhance dissemination.

Will It Work Here? A Decisionmaker's Guide to Adopting Innovations

The Guide helps users determine if an innovation would be a good fit-or an appropriate stretch-for their health care organization by asking a series of questions. It links users to actionable Web-based tools and presents case studies that illustrate how other organizations have addressed these questions.