This article discusses the work of Borst et al in which they suggest ‘sustaining work’ as a term that covers efforts actors to sustain use health research policy and practice through three practices. I two these, contexting institutionalizing, need be further unpacked understand how why are important for sustaining knowledge translation (KT). To contribute here, discuss KT processes organizatio...

BACKGROUND Despite extensive research, institutional policies, and practice guidelines, procedural pain remains undertreated in hospitalized children. Knowledge translation (KT) strategies have been employed to bridge the research to practice gap with varying success. The most effective single or combination of KT strategies has not been found. A multifaceted KT intervention, Evidence-based Pra...

BACKGROUND In Australia, there is growing use of technology supported knowledge translation (KT) strategies such as social media and mobile apps in health promotion and in Indigenous health. However, little is known about how individuals use technologies and the evidence base for the impact of these health interventions on health behavior change is meager. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study...

BACKGROUND Compliance with surgical safety checklists (SSCs) has been associated with improvements in clinical processes such as antibiotic use, correct site marking, and overall safety processes. Yet, proper execution has been difficult to achieve. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to undertake a process evaluation of four knowledge translation (KT) strategies used to implement the ...

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...

BACKGROUND Significant resources are invested in the production of research knowledge with the ultimate objective of integrating research evidence into practice. Toolkits are becoming increasingly popular as a knowledge translation (KT) strategy for disseminating health information, to build awareness, inform, and change public and healthcare provider behavior. Toolkits communicate messages aim...

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 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 In the ongoing effort to develop and advance the science of knowledge translation (KT), an important question has emerged around how theory should inform the development of KT interventions. DISCUSSION Efforts to employ theory to better understand and improve KT interventions have until recently mostly involved examining whether existing theories can be usefully applied to the KT c...