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A detailed report of the re associated with implemen n an. v Innovations often do not translate automatically into of change achieved following implementation and on the Implementation Science Ament et al. Implementation Science (2015) 10:78 DOI 10.1186/s13012-015-0270-9costs are reported, details as regards to the methodsMaastricht The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleroutine care [1]. Therefore, investment in active imple-mentation is generally needed to introduce and embed changes in health care practice [2, 3]. Implementation is a complex process and there are no magic bullets for optimal implementation success [4, 5]. The value of efforts and costs associated with implementation. Imple-mentation costs can be made during the innovation development, implementation strategy development and the execution of the implementation strategy [6]. Not including costs and effects related to implementation of an innovation may produce biased and overestimated cost-effectiveness results [7]. Also, costs of the health care process itself may have changed. Whereas the num-ber of reports on effectiveness of implementation activ-ities is increasing [8], most implementation studies d