Evaluating restoration outcomes: trial of a community‐based monitoring protocol

Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomes.

Monitoring knowledge use and evaluating outcomes

Sharon E. Straus, Jacqueline Tetroe, Onil Bhattacharyya, Merrick Zwarenstein, and Ian D. Graham Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Knowledge Translation Portfolio, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ON, Canada Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentist...

Evaluating Stream Restoration Projects: What Do We Learn from Monitoring?

Two decades since calls for stream restoration projects to be scientifically assessed, most projects are still unevaluated, and conducted evaluations yield ambiguous results. Even after these decades of investigation, do we know how to define and measure success? We systematically reviewed 26 studies of stream restoration projects that used macroinvertebrate indicators to assess the success of ...

Evaluating the Process of Generating a Clinical Trial Protocol

The research protocol is the principal document in the conduct of a clinical trial. Its generation requires knowledge about the research problem, the potential experimental confounders, and the relevant Good Clinical Practices for conducting the trial. However, such information is not always available to authors during the writing process. A checklist of over 80 items has been developed to bett...

Evaluating a Fish Monitoring Protocol Using State-Space Hierarchical Models

Using data collected from three river reaches in Montana, we evaluated our ability to detect population trends and predict fish future fish abundance. Data were collected as part of a long-term monitoring program conducted by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to primarily estimate rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) abundance in numerous rivers across Montana. We used a ...