Reflections on 10 years of effectiveness-implementation hybrid studies

This article provides new reflections and recommendations from authors of the initial effectiveness-implementation hybrid study manuscript and additional experts in their conceptualization and application. Given the widespread and continued use of hybrid studies, critical appraisals are necessary. The article offers reflections across five conceptual and methodological areas. It begins with the recommendation to replace the term “design” in favor of “study.” The use of the term “design” and the explicit focus on trial methodology in the original paper created confusion. The essence of hybrid studies is combining research questions concerning intervention effectiveness and implementation within the same study,…

• UD
  U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  Awards: 20-026, QUE 20-026
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Award: UL1 TR003107
• QE
  Quality Enhancement Research Initiative

  Awards: QUE 20-026, PII 19-462
• NH
  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• NC
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

  Awards: TR003107, UL1 TR003107