The literature on barriers and facilitators is vast as it is common for research teams to document barriers and facilitators prior to testing implementation strategies. The following articles are some examples of reviews of barriers and facilitators, which may have broader applicability beyond the specific settings or health conditions that are reviewed.
This review by Zhou and colleagues synthesizes a large body of evidence on barriers and facilitators to clinical practice guideline implementation and maps them to the Theoretical Domains Framework and Behavior Change Wheel, offering a theory-informed basis for tailoring future implementation strategies to specific healthcare settings.
In this review by Geerligs and colleagues, staff-reported barriers and facilitators to implementing patient-focused hospital interventions are summarized, thus demonstrating how successful implementation depends on addressing interrelated system-, staff-, and intervention-level factors during intervention design and pre-implementation planning.
This review by Seckler and colleagues identifies modifiable barriers and facilitators to implementing multidisciplinary care pathways in primary care, such as staffing, training, time, motivation, communication, and tailoring, thereby offering practical guidance for designing stronger implementation strategies for complex primary care interventions.
Abu-Odah and colleagues synthesize cross-cutting barriers and facilitators to moving research into clinical practice, showing that inadequate individual knowledge and skills, limited access to evidence and resources, and weak organizational support impede translation.
This review by Francis and colleagues synthesizes a large evidence base on supported decision-making in mental healthcare and identifies organizational, process, and relationship barriers that must be addressed to move these interventions into routine practice.
In this review, Huo and colleagues synthesize evidence across healthcare settings to identify the organizational, external, process, intervention, and individual factors that can hinder or support implementation of trauma-informed care, laying the groundwork for designing implementation strategies in this area.
Powell and colleagues review the multilevel and multiphase barriers and facilitators to implementing trauma-focused evidence-based interventions for youth, organizing this evidence within the EPIS framework to guide future development of implementation strategies.
This review by Varshini and colleagues identifies organizational, clinician, and technology-related barriers and facilitators to implementing cognitive behavioral therapy and offers practical guidance for strengthening training, leadership support, stakeholder engagement, and digital delivery strategies to implementation and sustainment of this behavioral intervention.
Meza and colleagues focus specifically on evidence regarding how first-level leadership relates to implementation outcomes in behavioral health, highlighting how frontline leadership—especially transformational and strategic implementation leadership—can effectively support implementation.
