REVIEW article

Front. Public Health

Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1603178

The use of Implementation Mapping in healthcare settings: a scoping review

Provisionally accepted
  • 1Mater Misericordiae Ltd, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • 2Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
  • 3The University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
  • 4Mater Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

Background: Implementation Mapping is a structured, theory-informed approach designed to facilitate the selection and tailoring of implementation strategies to improve the uptake of healthcare interventions. Despite growing use in healthcare settings since being introduced in 2019, there has been limited synthesis of the application or effectiveness of Implementation Mapping. This scoping review aimed to explore the extent and type of evidence that uses Implementation Mapping methodology to implement programs or practices in healthcare settings to identify common approaches, benefits, challenges, and future directions.Methods: A systematic search was undertaken in March 2023 and updated in August 2024 across four electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus and CINAHL) using "Implementation Mapping" as a key word. This was supplemented with citation tracking (including the paper originally describing Implementation Mapping), manual searches of key journals, and a Google scholar search. Studies were included

Keywords: healthcare, implementation mapping, Scoping review, implementation science, value-based healthcare

Received: 31 Mar 2025; Accepted: 03 Jun 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Warhurst, Tyack, Beckmann and Abell. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Kym Warhurst, Mater Misericordiae Ltd, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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