Implementation Research: characteristics and opportunities for its practice.

Abstract

The type of research called implementation research aims to apply in real scenarios the knowledge obtained through evidence-based medicine in order to solve health problems and contribute to the implementation of effective interventions. A narrative bibliographic review was performed through an advanced literature search that was carried out through tools and platforms such as HINARI, PubMed, Google scholar. Implementation research can through pragmatic protocols and with mixed, quantitative and qualitative methodology, guide health personnel to a new paradigm in research. The purpose of implementation research is to solve large-scale health problems, for which the necessary knowledge and effective interventions already exist, but because of external barriers are not managed to implement. This type of research can help to effectively resolve many of the current problems in the health system in Honduras.