Translating Evidence to Practice: Development and Dissemination of AOTA’s Knowledge Translation Toolkit

construction and validation of translation metacognitive strategy questionnaire and its application to translation quality

like any other learning activity, translation is a problem solving activity which involves executing parallel cognitive processes. the ability to think about these higher processes, plan, organize, monitor and evaluate the most influential executive cognitive processes is what flavell (1975) called “metacognition” which encompasses raising awareness of mental processes as well as using effectiv...

Translating evidence into practice: a model for large scale knowledge translation.

Translating evidence into practice.

Appropriately designed and conducted research is necessary for improving patient care and optimizing health outcomes, but access to best evidence is not enough to make these things happen. In respiratory care, as in other fields, patients do not benefit as much as they should from research findings and evidence-based practice guidelines. Current standards for the diagnosis, staging, and managem...

Translating evidence into practice.

Translational medicine and evidence based practice (EBP) are key principles that have guided clinical applications of research over the past two decades, helping to transform research on disease and disability. There is less evidence that clinical practice has shifted by similar dimensions. As a clinician and clinical manager turned researcher, I have seen clinicians struggle to integrate resea...

Knowledge Translation in Health Care: Moving from Evidence to Practice

Written by a team of authors closely involved in the development of knowledge translation, this unique book aims to explain how to use research findings to improve health care in real life, everyday situations. The authors define and describe knowledge translation, and outline strategies for successful knowledge translation in practice and policy making. The book is full of examples of how know...