Getting Research Findings into Practice

Getting research into policy and practice.

Getting research findings into practice. When to act on the evidence.

Getting research findings into practice Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings

a Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California at San Francisco, 1388 Sutter Street, 11th floor, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA, b Unit of Clinical Policy Analysis, Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy, c Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, d Department o...

Foreword: Lesson learning about getting research into policy and practice

FOREWORD The UK Department for International Development (DFID) is committed to investing in research to combat poverty, reduce high mortality and morbidity in resource poor contexts and support progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Research helps us to identify what works, what does not work and how to understand the local context when introducing new ways of working. Ther...

Getting research into clinical practice - barriers and solutions.

The success of current efforts towards evidence-based health services in many countries depends on efficient transfer of research findings to health practitioners. However, there is a lag in research being adopted. In part this is due to difficulties in interpreting or generalising research findings, in part to inertia, organisational structures and information. Clinical guidelines are usually ...