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Knowledge translation of research findings

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Grimshaw, Jeremy M, Eccles, Martin P, Lavis, John N, Hill, Sophie J, Squires, Janet E·2012·Implementation Science
DOI 10.1186/1748-5908-7-50PMC PMC3462671
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BACKGROUND: One of the most consistent findings from clinical and health services research is the failure to translate research into practice and policy. As a result of these evidence-practice and policy gaps, patients fail to benefit optimally from advances in healthcare and are exposed to unnecessary risks of iatrogenic harms, and healthcare systems are exposed to unnecessary expenditure resulting in significant opportunity costs. Over the last decade, there has been increasing international policy and research attention on how to reduce the evidence-practice and policy gap. In this paper, we summarise the current concepts and evidence to guide knowledge translation activities, defined as T2 research (the translation of new clinical knowledge into improved health). We structure the article around five key questions: what should be transferred; to whom should research knowledge be transferred; by whom should research knowledge be transferred; how should research knowledge be transferred; and, with what effect should research knowledge be transferred? DISCUSSION: We suggest that the basic unit of knowledge translation should usually be up-to-date systematic reviews or other syntheses of research findings. Knowledge translators need to identify the key messages for different target audiences and to fashion these in language and knowledge translation products that are easily assimilated by different audiences. The relative importance of knowledge translation to different target audiences will vary by the type of research and appropriate endpoints of knowledge translation may vary across different stakeholder groups. There are a large number of planned knowledge translation models, derived from different disciplinary, contextual (i.e., setting), and target audience viewpoints. Most of these suggest that planned knowledge translation for healthcare professionals and consumers is more likely to be successful if the choice of knowledge translation strategy is informed by an assessment of the likely barriers and facilitators. Although our evidence on the likely effectiveness of different strategies to overcome specific barriers remains incomplete, there is a range of informative systematic reviews of interventions aimed at healthcare professionals and consumers (i.e., patients, family members, and informal carers) and of factors important to research use by policy makers. SUMMARY: There is a substantial (if incomplete) evidence base to guide choice of knowledge translation activities targeting healthcare professionals and consumers. The evidence base on the effects of different knowledge translation approaches targeting healthcare policy makers and senior managers is much weaker but there are a profusion of innovative approaches that warrant further evaluation.

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Authors
Grimshaw, J. M., Eccles, M. P., Lavis, J. N., Hill, S. J., & Squires, J. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Ottawa (CA)
  • Newcastle University (GB)
  • McMaster University (CA)
  • La Trobe University (AU)
  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (CA)
Corresponding author
Grimshaw, Jeremy M
ORCID
Venue
Implementation Science
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2012-05-31
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
50-50
ISSN
1748-5908 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1186/1748-5908-7-50
PMC
PMC3462671
OpenAlex
W2161459327
Cited by
2,407
References
100
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FWCI
230.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Implementation Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • uO Research (University of Ottawa) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • La Trobe University (cc-by)
Funders
  • Hill's Pet Nutrition
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Medical Research Council
  • National Health and Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Keywords
knowledge translation, knowledge-practice gap, evidence-policy gap, target audience, barriers and facilitators, healthcare workers, research utilization
MeSH terms
Humans, Policy Making, Review Literature as Topic, Health Behavior, Information Storage and Retrieval, Databases as Topic, Information Dissemination, Translational Research, Biomedical, Knowledge Management

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