Developing a framework to evaluate knowledge into action interventions

Developing a framework to evaluate knowledge into action interventions

BACKGROUND There are many challenges in delivering and evaluating knowledge for healthcare, but the lack of clear routes from knowledge to practice is a root cause of failures in safety within healthcare. Various types and sources of knowledge are relevant at different levels within the healthcare system. These need to be delivered in a timely way that is useful and actionable for those providi...

Developing and selecting interventions for translating knowledge to action.

Developing a Conceptual Framework to Evaluate Public B2B E-Marketplaces

Business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces are Internet-based inter-organizational trading platforms that facilitate and foster the exchange of information, products and services, and other business transactions among many buyers and sellers. Despite the proliferation of B2B e-marketplaces, many B2B e-marketplaces have failed. A well-developed framework or standard for evaluating B2B emarketplac...

From Bangkok to Mexico: towards a framework for turning knowledge into action to improve health systems.

As a follow-up to the International Conference on Health Research for Development that took place in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2000, WHO convened a Ministerial Summit on Health Research to be held in Mexico City in November 2004, to review progress to date and reflect on emerging opportunities in the global field of health research. In 1990, the Commission on Health Research for Development recomme...

Methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions

Knowledge translation (KT) promotes evidenced-based medicine but methods used to support related practices are often not evidence based [1,2]. Implementation research is complex, as it requires taking into account multiple levels (from patients, multidisciplinary healthcare teams and health facilities to local and national health care systems), which adds to the significant conceptual and metho...