Overcoming barriers to implementing brief intervention: a knowledge transfer partnership

Overcoming barriers to implementing brief intervention: a knowledge transfer partnership

Cardiff University, the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales are working together to implement screening and brief interventions across a variety of health and community settings through a unique collaboration; a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP). Previous research has uncovered both barriers and facilitators to implementation. This KTP seeks to build upon this work and translate the res...

Overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based dentistry.

Overcoming cultural barriers to sharing knowledge

Culture is often seen as the key inhibitor of effective knowledge sharing. A study of companies where sharing knowledge is built into the culture found that they did not change their culture to match their knowledge management initiatives. They adapted their approach to knowledge management to fit their culture. They did this by: linking sharing knowledge to solving practical business problems;...

Individual and Social Barriers to Knowledge Transfer

It is often stated, that people use knowledge for their own benefit and that they share it only grudgingly. This may be partly true because our society has deep cultural traditions which tend to discourage knowledge sharing. Even memories from school confirm the picture of knowledge as a treasury that has to be protected and hidden. During examinations the use of shared potentials is castigated...

Implementing alcohol screening and brief intervention in primary care: identifying barriers, proposing solutions

Background Alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) can reduce heavy and harmful alcohol use [1-5]. The strongest evidence for SBI effectiveness is in primary care settings where meta-analyses studies show 10–30 percent reductions in alcohol consumption at 12 months [4,5]. Over the past decade, there have been significant efforts to support the adoption and implementation of SBI in genera...