What is RE-AIM?

The goal of RE-AIM is to encourage program planners, evaluators, readers of journal articles, funders, and policy-makers to pay more attention to essential program elements including external validity that can improve the sustainable adoption and implementation of effective, generalizable, evidence-based interventions.

The five steps to translate research into action are:

• Reach the target population
• Effectiveness or efficacy
• Adoption by target settings or institutions
• Implementation, consistency of delivery of intervention
• Maintenance of intervention effects in individuals and settings over time 

Planning Questions

Reach - How do I reach the targeted population with the intervention?

Efficacy - How do I know my intervention is effective?

Adoption - How do I develop organizational support to deliver my intervention?

Implementation - How do I ensure the intervention is delivered properly?

Maintenance - How do I incorporate the intervention so that it is delivered over the long term?