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Centre for Implementation Research

Centre for Implementation Research

We harness and develop contemporary approaches to develop and evaluate multilevel practice-changing health-care research.

Overview

The Centre for Implementation Research (CIR) focuses on developing and applying Implementation Science in health-care settings to improve health care and health. We are committed to training through delivering courses and workshops, through and supervising and mentoring the next generation of leaders in the field.

Led by Dr. Justin Presseau, our research is local, regional, national and international in scope and involves collaborations with stakeholders and knowledge users at each level in key health-care priority areas.

We operate within the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ottawa (Canada) and are located primarily at the purpose-built Centre for Practice-Changing Research. Our Centre is affiliated with the University of Ottawa and works closely with the Ottawa Methods Centre, Knowledge Synthesis Group, and the Psychology and Health Research Group (PaHRG).


Our members

Our members have academic expertise spanning:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Health psychology
  • Health services
  • Research
  • Health economics
  • Knowledge translation science
  • Medical sociology
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Population health
  • Statistics

Our members harness and develop contemporary approaches to develop and evaluate multilevel practice-changing research targeting health-care systems, health-care providers, patients and the public.

Our expertise

The Centre for Implementation Research includes professionals from the following multidisciplinary fields, including:

Cognitive psychology

Epidemiology

Health economics

Health psychology

Health services research

Knowledge translation science

Medical sociology

Medicine

Nursing

Population health

Statistics

Other health and behavioural sciences

The interdisciplinary and complementary nature of our expertise promotes the application of a range of theories, methods and tools to a variety research areas and health-care priorities and ensures every project is considered from multiple perspectives.

Our team has particular expertise in:

  • Audit and feedback
  • Decision-making and decision aids
  • Health economic analyses (person-level and model-based approaches)
  • Health-care professional and patient behaviour change
  • Intervention evaluation (randomized trials and quasi-experiments)
  • Knowledge syntheses of theories and knowledge translation/implementation strategies (complex interventions)
  • Medical education
  • Theory-based identification of barriers and facilitators to change (qualitative and quantitative)
  • Theory-based intervention development
  • Theory-based process evaluation alongside trials

Contact

Stefanie Linklater

613-737-8899 ext. 73812

slinklater@ohri.ca

501 Smyth Road, L1255, Box/C.P. 711
Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6
Canada