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Mona J. Ritchie

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Research Health Scientist

Also affiliated: United States Department of Veterans Affairs (2014–2023); University of Washington (2004); University of Utah (2004); Providence VA Medical Center (2022); Health Services Research & Development (2008–2022); VA Salt Lake City Healthcare System (2004); VA Puget Sound Health Care System (2004); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2004–2026); Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers (2023); Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (2005–2026); Philadelphia VA Medical Center (2023); University at Buffalo, State University of New York (2023)

22 h-index 44 pubs 1,953 cited

  • Humans
  • United States Department of Veterans Affairs
  • United States
  • Primary Health Care
  • Mental Health Services
  • Mental Health
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Implementation Science
  • Quality Improvement
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Guideline Adherence
  • Qualitative Research
  • Health Policy
  • Delivery of Health Care, Integrated

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Mona J. Ritchie's research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based practices within healthcare settings, particularly in primary care and mental health integration. She investigates strategies to improve quality and adherence to clinical guidelines, often utilizing qualitative methods to understand stakeholder perspectives. Her work has examined the roles of managers, frontline staff, and local champions in facilitating quality improvement initiatives.

Ritchie has explored the skills required for implementation facilitation, moving from novice to expert levels. Her research also considers the practical aspects of implementation, including the time and organizational costs associated with integrating new practices, such as primary care-mental health integration. She has contributed to the scientific discourse through literature syntheses and proceedings from conferences dedicated to dissemination and implementation science.

With an h-index of 22 and over 1,900 citations across 45 publications, Ritchie's scholarship demonstrates sustained contributions to the field of implementation science. Her work is supported by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, indicating a commitment to improving healthcare delivery within veteran populations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 22
  • Publications: 44
  • Citations: 1,953

Positions

  • Research Health Scientist 2010–present
    US Department of Veterans Affairs VA Behavioral Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) ORCID
  • Research Health Scientist publications 2004–2026
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Dimensions of implementation facilitation (IF): development of a tool for designing, documenting and reporting on IF strategies in healthcare settings (2026)
    Implementation Science Communications DOI OpenAlex
  • Linking implementation science and policy: Process and tools for congressionally mandated implementation, evaluation, and reporting (2024)
    Health Services Research 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Building a sharable literature collection to advance the science and practice of implementation facilitation (2024)
    Frontiers in Health Services 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Getting to Fidelity: Consensus Development Process to Identify Core Activities of Implementation Facilitation (2024)
    Global Implementation Research and Applications 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Virtual facilitation best practices and research priorities: a scoping review (2024)
    Implementation Science Communications 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Facilitating implementation of primary care mental health over time and across organizational contexts: a qualitative study of role and process (2023)
    BMC Health Services Research 17 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook informed by the i-PARIHS framework (2022)
    Implementation Science Communications 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Getting to fidelity: Scoping review and expert panel process to identify core activities of implementation facilitation strategies (2022)
    10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time–motion analysis of external facilitation for implementing the Collaborative Chronic Care Model in general mental health clinics: Use of an interval-based data collection approach (2022)
    Implementation Research and Practice 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • From novice to expert: methods for transferring implementation facilitation skills to improve healthcare delivery (2021)
    Implementation Science Communications 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • From novice to expert: a qualitative study of implementation facilitation skills (2020)
    Implementation Science Communications 106 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • External facilitators’ perceptions of internal facilitation skills during implementation of collaborative care for mental health teams: a qualitative analysis informed by the i-PARIHS framework (2020)
    BMC Health Services Research 58 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Time and Organizational Cost for Facilitating Implementation of Primary Care Mental Health Integration (2019)
    Journal of General Internal Medicine 79 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Comparing variations in implementation processes and influences across multiple sites: What works, for whom, and how? (2019)
    Psychiatry Research 53 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Enhancing implementation of measurement-based mental health care in primary care: a mixed-methods randomized effectiveness evaluation of implementation facilitation (2018)
    BMC Health Services Research 40 citations DOI OpenAlex

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