It’s time for the field of geriatrics to invest in implementation science

Department of Medicine, Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA Institute for Informatics, Data Science, and Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), Corporal Michael J Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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