Testing a theory of strategic implementation leadership, implementation climate, and clinicians’ use of evidence-based practice:

Testing a theory of strategic implementation leadership, implementation climate, and clinicians’ use of evidence-based practice: a 5-year panel analysis.
Implementation Sci 15, 10 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-0970-7

• Using data collected from 30 outpatient children’s mental health clinics in US hospitals across a 5-year period, this study shows that when first-level leaders increase their use of specific implementation leadership behaviours, they contribute to improvements in their organisation's evidence based practice implementation climate, which in turn contributes to increased use of evidence-based practice by clinicians.