BACKGROUND Research funders, educators, investigators and decision makers worldwide have identified the need to improve the quality of health care by building capacity for knowledge translation (KT) research and practice. Peer-based mentorship represents a vehicle to foster KT capacity. The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify mentoring models that could be used to build KT capacity...

BACKGROUND It is difficult to foster research utilization among allied health professionals (AHPs). Tailored, multifaceted knowledge translation (KT) strategies are now recommended but are resource intensive to implement. Employers need effective KT solutions but little is known about; the impact and viability of multifaceted KT strategies using an online KT tool, their effectiveness with AHPs ...

BACKGROUND Local health systems research (HSR) provides policymakers and practitioners with contextual, evidence-based solutions to health problems. However, producers and users of HSR rarely understand the complexities of the context within which each operates, leading to the "know-do" gap. Universities are well placed to conduct knowledge translation (KT) integrating research production with ...

“We have in hand most of the information we need to facilitate a new golden age of medicine. And what we don’t have in hand we can get fairly readily by wise investment in targeted research and intervention.” This “dangerous idea” (Ewald, 2007) was put forward by Paul Ewald, an evolutionary biologist. His idea has merit and is consistent with the way we, at the Canadian Institutes of Health Res...

BACKGROUND Knowledge translation (KT) is an imperative in order to implement research-based and contextualized practices that can answer the numerous challenges of complex health problems. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) provides a conceptual framework to guide the implementation process in chronic care. Yet, organizations aiming to improve chronic care require an adequate level of organizational ...

Duong, D. 2017. Healthcare context for knowledge translation in Vietnam. Development and application of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1297. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9811-5. The failure to translate evidence into clinical practice has been repea...

BACKGROUND Knowledge translation (KT) interventions are attempts to change behavior in keeping with scientific evidence. While genetic tests are increasingly available to healthcare consumers in the clinic, evidence about their benefits is unclear and decisions about genetic testing are thus difficult for all parties. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify KT interventions that involved decisions ab...