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Monograph
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The Papers
- PART 1: An introduction to knowledge translation: fulfilling the promise of health research (HTML)
- PART 2: Implementation of evidence: macro level approaches to knowledge utilization (HTML)
- PART 3: Evidence use in action: engaging users (HTML)
The Commentaries
- PART 4: The Commentaries (HTML)
The Discussants
- PART 5: The Discussants (HTML)
Using evidence: Advances and debates in bridging health research and action
Editor: Renée F. Lyons, 2010
About the Monograph
This monograph grew out of a symposium on health and knowledge translation (KT) held at 13 Norham Gardens, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, in May 2008. The purpose of the symposium was to examine ways of thinking about and doing knowledge translation, and to debate issues central to moving research into action. Case examples were provided from health services and policy, clinical practice, and public health.
The symposium was organized and hosted by Dr. Renée Lyons, professor and Canada Research Chair, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC), Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, while she was on a sabbatical leave at Oxford University. She currently holds the Bridgepoint Chair in Complex Chronic Disease at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine and Bridgepoint Health, Toronto.
Global health issues, such as access to clean air and water, obesity, poverty and health, cardiovascular disease prevention, and clinical effectiveness, need high quality evidence so that problems can be understood and addressed. There is a widespread belief that research evidence can and should be used more effectively in health-related decision-making – from broad government actions that have an impact on health, to practitioner decisions in clinical and public health practice (Kerner, 2005). A major development in health research over the past 10 years has been the growth in knowledge translation (KT) and the diffusion and use of research.
Knowledge Translation (KT)
Knowledge translation (KT) is about the diffusion and use of research. There have been a number of terms used to describe elements of this process, including knowledge utilization, knowledge transfer, diffusion of innovation, evidence-based practice, and evidence-based medicine.
Some countries have invested heavily in knowledge translation. The investment in KT, however, is still extremely small compared with knowledge generation. The evidence base for effectiveness of KT strategies is developing (see Grimshaw and Eccles, 2008, for a review) at a surprisingly rapid pace, yet the field is still in its infancy, and there is considerable need for dialogue, debate, and the sharing of ideas, cases, innovations, and learning across disciplines and sectors. We are beginning to evolve mechanisms for research synthesis, communication, incentives and facilitation strategies for knowledge use. Each of these approaches is in the development and testing stages.
Related link: KT Tools
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This document provides a comprehensive overview of factors to consider in developing a knowledge translation strategy.
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Researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including clinical research, the social sciences, populations and public health, and perspectives were invited to share some of the new approaches being developed and tested to increase the spread of evidence in health-related decision-making. Speakers and participants discussed issues that are emerging as explorations in KT move deeper into the research and practice world, and become integrated within research funding, accreditation, and expanding efforts to apply research to human health problems. We all agreed that the trans-disciplinary fertilization of ideas was refreshing and useful, and that we should collaborate on a monograph that would include essays based on the presentations and commentaries from participants and discussants.
This monograph follows from the KT08: Forum for the Future international conference (Banff, Alberta, Canada), which was an opportunity for those engaged in advancing the science and impact of knowledge translation to exchange ideas and develop a foundation for advancing KT research and application for the next decade. That forum identified many areas that must be addressed in order to build the knowledge base in KT that is featured in this monograph: theory development and testing, context and knowledge use, health-care system interventions, and infrastructure that supports knowledge translation.
KT08: Forum for the Future identified many areas of need in building the knowledge base in KT. Several of those areas were present at the Oxford symposium: theory development and testing, context responsiveness to using knowledge, health-care system interventions, and developing systems and infrastructure that support knowledge translation.
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