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Nearly ten years ago, I was part of a paper that attempted to distill syntheses of implementation frameworks down into a usable tool. And that tool was pretty good! You can still find it here, but you’ll have to do some of the paywall shenanigans to get at it. The syntheses paper itself is super […]
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Harm reduction measures are intended to reduce the negative consequences of certain behaviors, such as drug use and sex. This may be achieved without people having to stop doing these actions altogether. Harm reduction recognizes that some people might not be able or willing to stop, but they can still make changes to protect themselves […]
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After a long and winding road, we are finally launching 101 Days of Science. We know that many of you have topics that you wish you could stay on top of. There are so many development and new findings coming out that no one person can realistically follow new research. My own article readiness list […]
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Now I’m not great at writing academic articles, but many people are. Last year, Dr. Scott and I published our NLP review of articles in about 1700 articles published in Implementation Science, the premier outlet for those interested in research into getting research into practice (yes, it can sometimes seem a bit like navel-gazing.) In […]
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Just a pic of Matt rocking the booth. Hat’s off to our director of sale for pulling off an incredible design and execution of our APHA experience!
Read more →Happy six-month birthday to this article, 5335 days of Implementation Science: using natural language processing to examine publication trends and topics! Written by myself and Dr. Victoria Scott, we talked about ways to leverage NLP to makes sense of large amounts of literature. While the methods that we used here can seem complicated on the surface, […]
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In about four hours, we’re giving a short talk on PubTrawlr and the overall value. To preserve them for posterity, here are the slides I’ll be talking from.
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Right in time for the American Public Health Association Conference, we wanted to announce several major user improvements to PubTrawlr. Our sleek new landing page Together with Hammer Marketing and Mind Design and Development, we have a clean new look to help guide your scientific searches. Predictive searching Maybe you know what you’re looking for, […]
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Yes, this post will save you $1,200! That’s $1,200 in the cost of registration and the cost of your time that you don’t have to spend! Before I get into the specific results, I want to go up on a soapbox. Over the past two years, the virtual conferences I’ve been a part of, both […]
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Together with colleagues from the Universities of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Charlotte, along with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, we are super stoked to finally see Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation in print! Here’s the plain language gist of this. Community health improvement initiatives […]
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We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness Learning Systems, I could almost always get back on the right track by going through posts on Stack Overflow or Medium. So why isn’t there anything like that for […]
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Whenever we go into a new setting, one of our first tasks is to find the people who to be our cheerleaders. These are your key opinion leaders, the person or persons who are your examples, your innovation-specific project leaders, and innovation advisors. These are the people who are going to, well, champion the change. […]
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