Taking Innovation To Scale In Primary Care Practices: The Functions Of Health Care Extension

Early findings that informed this article were presented at the 9th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation, in Washington, D.C., on December 14, 2016. This research was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Grant No. R01HS023940-01). Sarah Ono and Samuel Edwards are employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or of the authors’ other affiliated institutions. The authors thank Laura Damschroder, Robert Phillips, Claire Diener, Rikki Ward, Jennifer Hall, David Cameron, Amanda Delzer Hill, and Leah Gordon for their contributions to this work and the EvidenceNOW Cooperatives for sharing their experience with ESCALATES. The authors also thank the reviewers and editors for their thoughtful feedback.