There are many theories, models, and frameworks that have been proposed in the field of implementation science. Despite this, many evidence implementation or practice improvement projects do not consider these theories, models, or frameworks in their improvement efforts. The JBI approach is one example of an implementation theory, model, or framework. This approach has been developed particularly with health care professionals in mind and is designed to clearly guide pragmatic evidence implementation efforts based on the best available evidence. In this paper, we discuss how the JBI approach to evidence implementation can interact with and support theory-informed, pragmatic evidence implementation projects.

Center of Evidence based Education and Arts Therapies A JBI Affiliated Group Faculty of Education Palacký University Olomouc Olomouc Czech Republic

Cochrane Czech Republic Czech Republic A JBI Centre of Excellence Czech GRADE Network Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic Prague Czech Republic

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi Ghana

Department of Nursing San Francisco Medical Center University of California San Francisco CA USA

Health Evidence Synthesis Recommendations and Impact School of Public Health The University of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia

JBI Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences University of Adelaide Adelaide SA Australia

Kintampo Health Research Centre A JBI Centre of Excellence Kintampo Ghana

School of Nursing San Francisco State University San Francisco CA USA

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