Susan M. Breitenstein|Deborah Gross|Christine Garvey|Carri Hill|Louis Fogg|Barbara Resnick
Implementation fidelity in community?based interventions
Rush University|Johns Hopkins University|Rush University|University of Illinois at Chicago|Rush University|University of Maryland, College Park
implementation fidelity degree intervention delivered intended critical successful translation evidencebased interventions practice diminished fidelity may interventions work well highly controlled trials may fail yield outcomes applied real life contexts purpose paper define implementation fidelity describe importance larger science implementation discuss data collection methods current efforts measuring implementation fidelity communitybased prevention interventions present future research directions measuring implementation fidelity advance implementation science