Background: Canadian health funding currently prioritizes scaling up for evidence-based
primary care innovations, but not all teams prepare for scaling up. We explored scalability …

Background: In 2013, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded 12 community-
based primary health care research teams to develop evidence-based innovations. We …

Background: On May 24, 2017, the Quebec College of Family Physicians held an innovation
symposium inspired by the television show Dragons' Den, at which innovators pitched their …

Background The last decade has seen growing interest in scaling up of innovations to
strengthen healthcare systems. However, the lack of appropriate methods for determining …

Background Champions have been documented in the literature as an important strategy for
implementation, yet their effectiveness has not been well synthesized in the health care …

Methods A scoping review was conducted to identify articles that described the scale up
process conceptually or that described an instance in which a healthcare innovation was …

Objectives: Health care innovation and technologies can improve patient outcomes, but
policies and regulations established to protect the public interest may become barriers to …

Background Innovations and improvements in care delivery are often not spread across all
settings that would benefit from their uptake. Scale-up and spread efforts are deliberate …

Objective Efforts to scale up evidence-based health care interventions are seen as a key
strategy to address complex health system challenges. However, scale-up efforts have …

The context for the paper was the evaluation of a national program in Australia to investigate
extended scopes of practice for health professionals (paramedics, physiotherapists, and …