Successful application of research outcomes into routine healthcare practice rarely occurs as an immediate result their publication [1]. A much-cited example is the 40-year delay in British Navy’s adoption vitamin C for prevention scurvy, despite substantial evidence benefit from first ever controlled trial conducted by James Lind 1770s [2]. The delayed often referred to evidence-practice gap [...

OBJECTIVE A gap exists between the information contained in published clinical practice guidelines and the knowledge and information that are necessary to implement them. This work describes a process to systematize and make explicit the translation of document-based knowledge into workflow-integrated clinical decision support systems. DESIGN This approach uses the Guideline Elements Model (G...

We consider the problem of providing semantics for declarative languages, in a way that would be useful for enabling automated knowledge exchange. If we only have one (first order) language, we can formalize what we mean for a set of sentences to be a translation of another, by requiring that the two sets share the same models. However, in order to formalize translation for the case where the t...

in a recent editorial for this journal, el-jardali and fadlallah proposed a new framework for knowledge translation (kt) in healthcare. many such frameworks already exist; thus, new entrants to the field must be scrutinized in regard to their unique contributions to advancing understanding and practice. the el-jardali and fadlallah framework focuses on policy-level discussions, a relatively und...

To produce an adequate translation, language students are required to learn varieties of language features including syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Considering the curriculum language learners are face with, one can claim that almost all language students in Iran are taught these features in their academic settings including linguistic courses. Yet, there are some aspects of language which a...