Jabbour, MonaCurran, JanetScott, Shannon DGuttman, AstridRotter, ThomasDucharme, Francine MLougheed, M DianeMcNaughton-Filion, M LouiseNewton, AmandaShafir, MarkPaprica, AlisonKlassen, TerryTaljaard, MonicaGrimshaw, JeremyJohnson, David W2014-10-012014-10-0120132013Jabbour et al. Implementation Science 2013, 8:55http://www.implementationscience.com/content/8/1/55http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31661The clinical pathway is a tool that operationalizes best evidence recommendations and clinical practice guidelines in an accessible format for 'point of care' management by multidisciplinary health teams in hospital settings. While high-quality, expert-developed clinical pathways have many potential benefits, their impact has been limited by variable implementation strategies and suboptimal research designs. Best strategies for implementing pathways into hospital settings remain unknown. This study will seek to develop and comprehensively evaluate best strategies for effective local implementation of externally developed expert clinical pathways.enBest strategies to implement clinical pathways in an emergency department setting: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trialArticle10.1186/1748-5908-8-55