Issue 1/2010
Content (99 Articles)
Knowledge transfer for the management of dementia: a cluster-randomised trial of blended learning in general practice
Horst C Vollmar, Herbert Mayer, Thomas Ostermann, Martin E Butzlaff, John E Sandars, Stefan Wilm, Monika A Rieger
Overview of a formal scoping review on health system report cards
Susan E Brien, Diane L Lorenzetti, Steven Lewis, James Kennedy, William A Ghali
Information exchange networks for chronic illness care in primary care practices: an observational study
Michel Wensing, Jan van Lieshout, Jan Koetsenruiter, David Reeves
Supported local implementation of clinical guidelines in psychiatry: a two-year follow-up
Tord Forsner, Anna Åberg Wistedt, Mats Brommels, Imre Janszky, Antonio Ponce de Leon, Yvonne Forsell
The Reinforcing Therapist Performance (RTP) experiment: Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Bryan R Garner, Susan H Godley, Michael L Dennis, Mark D Godley, Donald S Shepard
Improving calculation, interpretation and communication of familial colorectal cancer risk: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Nicky Dekker, Rosella PMG Hermens, Glyn Elwyn, Trudy van der Weijden, Fokko M Nagengast, Peter van Duijvendijk, Simone Salemink, Eddy Adang, J Han JM van Krieken, Marjolijn JL Ligtenberg, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge
Delivering the WISE (Whole Systems Informing Self-Management Engagement) training package in primary care: learning from formative evaluation
Anne Kennedy, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Thomas Blakeman, Andrew Bowen, Caroline Gardner, Joanne Protheroe, Anne Rogers, Linda Gask
The impact of provider-initiated (opt-out) HIV testing and counseling of patients with sexually transmitted infection in Cape Town, South Africa: a controlled trial
Natalie Leon, Pren Naidoo, Catherine Mathews, Simon Lewin, Carl Lombard
Translating three states of knowledge–discovery, invention, and innovation
Joseph P Lane, Jennifer L Flagg
How to integrate individual patient values and preferences in clinical practice guidelines? A research protocol
Trudy van der Weijden, France Légaré, Antoine Boivin, Jako S Burgers, Haske van Veenendaal, Anne M Stiggelbout, Marjan Faber, Glyn Elwyn
Trends in publications regarding evidence-practice gaps: A literature review
Ann E Evensen, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D'Este, Michael Fitzgerald
Effects of computerized clinical decision support systems on practitioner performance and patient outcomes: Methods of a decision-maker-researcher partnership systematic review
R Brian Haynes, Nancy L Wilczynski
Improving benchmarking by using an explicit framework for the development of composite indicators: an example using pediatric quality of care
Jochen Profit, Katri V Typpo, Sylvia J Hysong, LeChauncy D Woodard, Michael A Kallen, Laura A Petersen
A systematic review of the use of theory in the design of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies and interpretation of the results of rigorous evaluations
Philippa Davies, Anne E Walker, Jeremy M Grimshaw
What work has to be done to implement collaborative care for depression? Process evaluation of a trial utilizing the Normalization Process Model
Linda Gask, Peter Bower, Karina Lovell, Diane Escott, Janine Archer, Simon Gilbody, Annette J Lankshear, Angela E Simpson, David A Richards
A cross-sectional study of the number and frequency of terms used to refer to knowledge translation in a body of health literature in 2006: a Tower of Babel?
K Ann McKibbon, Cynthia Lokker, Nancy L Wilczynski, Donna Ciliska, Maureen Dobbins, David A Davis, R Brian Haynes, Sharon E Straus
General practitioners' perceptions of the effectiveness of medical interventions: an exploration of underlying constructs
Florian Vogt, David Armstrong, Theresa M Marteau
A cluster randomized trial of standard quality improvement versus patient-centered interventions to enhance depression care for African Americans in the primary care setting: study protocol NCT00243425
Lisa A Cooper, Daniel E Ford, Bri K Ghods, Debra L Roter, Annelle B Primm, Susan M Larson, James M Gill, Gary J Noronha, Elias K Shaya, Nae-Yuh Wang
Applying the quality improvement collaborative method to process redesign: a multiple case study
Leti Vos, Michel LA Dückers, Cordula Wagner, Godefridus G van Merode
Statistical considerations in a systematic review of proxy measures of clinical behaviour
Heather O Dickinson, Susan Hrisos, Martin P Eccles, Jill Francis, Marie Johnston
Understanding uptake of continuous quality improvement in Indigenous primary health care: lessons from a multi-site case study of the Audit and Best Practice for Chronic Disease project
Karen L Gardner, Michelle Dowden, Samantha Togni, Ross Bailie
Marketing depression care management to employers: design of a randomized controlled trial
Kathryn M Rost, Donna Marshall
Part I, Patient perspective: activating patients to engage their providers in the use of evidence-based medicine: a qualitative evaluation of the VA Project to Implement Diuretics (VAPID)
Stacey A Pilling, Monica B Williams, Rachel Horner Brackett, Ryan Gourley, Mark W Vander Weg, Alan J Christensen, Peter J Kaboli, Heather Schacht Reisinger
Part II, Provider perspectives: should patients be activated to request evidence-based medicine? a qualitative study of the VA project to implement diuretics (VAPID)
Colin D Buzza, Monica B Williams, Mark W Vander Weg, Alan J Christensen, Peter J Kaboli, Heather Schacht Reisinger
Applying psychological theories to evidence-based clinical practice: identifying factors predictive of placing preventive fissure sealants
Debbie Bonetti, Marie Johnston, Jan E Clarkson, Jeremy Grimshaw, Nigel B Pitts, Martin Eccles, Nick Steen, Ruth Thomas, Graeme Maclennan, Liz Glidewell, Anne Walker
Designing an automated clinical decision support system to match clinical practice guidelines for opioid therapy for chronic pain
Jodie A Trafton, Susana B Martins, Martha C Michel, Dan Wang, Samson W Tu, David J Clark, Jan Elliott, Brigit Vucic, Steve Balt, Michael E Clark, Charles D Sintek, Jack Rosenberg, Denise Daniels, Mary K Goldstein
The preventing recurrent vascular events and neurological worsening through intensive organized case-management (PREVENTION) trial protocol [clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT00931788]
Finlay A McAlister, Sumit R Majumdar, Rajdeep S Padwal, Miriam Fradette, Ann Thompson, Ross Tsuyuki, Steven A Grover, Naeem Dean, Ashfaq Shuaib
Knowledge translation to fitness trainers: A systematic review
Dawn Stacey, Michael Hopkins, Kristi B Adamo, Risa Shorr, Denis Prud'homme
A randomized trial to evaluate e-learning interventions designed to improve learner's performance, satisfaction, and self-efficacy with the AGREE II
Melissa C Brouwers, Julie Makarski, Anthony J Levinson
Multi-level analysis of electronic health record adoption by health care professionals: A study protocol
Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Mathieu Ouimet, Gaston Godin, Michel Rousseau, Michel Labrecque, Yvan Leduc, Anis Ben Abdeljelil
Does accreditation stimulate change? A study of the impact of the accreditation process on Canadian healthcare organizations
Marie-Pascale Pomey, Louise Lemieux-Charles, François Champagne, Doug Angus, Abdo Shabah, André-Pierre Contandriopoulos
The BARRIERS scale -- the barriers to research utilization scale: A systematic review
Kerstin Nilsson Kajermo, Anne-Marie Boström, David S Thompson, Alison M Hutchinson, Carole A Estabrooks, Lars Wallin
Community-based knowledge transfer and exchange: Helping community-based organizations link research to action
Michael G Wilson, John N Lavis, Robb Travers, Sean B Rourke
Interventions aimed at improving the nursing work environment: a systematic review
Donna MJ Schalk, Marloes LP Bijl, Ruud JG Halfens, Louk Hollands, Greta G Cummings
Pilot study evaluating the effects of an intervention to enhance culturally appropriate hypertension education among healthcare providers in a primary care setting
Erik JAJ Beune, Patrick JE Bindels, Jacob Mohrs, Karien Stronks, Joke A Haafkens
Unpacking vertical and horizontal integration: childhood overweight/obesity programs and planning, a Canadian perspective
Lynne M MacLean, Kathryn Clinton, Nancy Edwards, Michael Garrard, Lisa Ashley, Patti Hansen-Ketchum, Audrey Walsh
Translating research into practice in Leeds and Bradford (TRiPLaB): a protocol for a programme of research
Andria Hanbury, Carl Thompson, Paul M Wilson, Kate Farley, Duncan Chambers, Erica Warren, John Bibby, Russell Mannion, Ian S Watt, Simon Gilbody
A realistic evaluation: the case of protocol-based care
Jo Rycroft-Malone, Marina Fontenla, Debra Bick, Kate Seers
Rationality versus reality: the challenges of evidence-based decision making for health policy makers
Deirdre McCaughey, Nealia S Bruning
Individual and setting level predictors of the implementation of a skin cancer prevention program: a multilevel analysis
Borsika A Rabin, Eric Nehl, Tom Elliott, Anjali D Deshpande, Ross C Brownson, Karen Glanz
Comparison of determinants of research knowledge utilization by practitioners and administrators in the field of child and family social services
François Chagnon, Louise Pouliot, Claire Malo, Marie-Joëlle Gervais, Marie-Ève Pigeon
The health disparities cancer collaborative: a case study of practice registry measurement in a quality improvement collaborative
David A Haggstrom, Steven B Clauser, Stephen H Taplin
Safety in home care: A research protocol for studying medication management
Patricia B Marck, Ariella Lang, Marilyn Macdonald, Melissa Griffin, Anthony Easty, Serena Corsini-Munt
Synergizing expectation and execution for stroke communities of practice innovations
Lise Poissant, Sara Ahmed, Richard J Riopelle, Annie Rochette, Hélène Lefebvre, Deborah Radcliffe-Branch
Healthcare professionals' intentions to use wiki-based reminders to promote best practices in trauma care: a survey protocol
Patrick M Archambault, France Légaré, André Lavoie, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Jean Lapointe, Sylvie St-Jacques, Julien Poitras, Karine Aubin, Sylvain Croteau, Martin Pham-Dinh
The relationship between baseline Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment subscale scores and implementation of hepatitis prevention services in substance use disorders treatment clinics: a case study
Hildi J Hagedorn, Paul W Heideman
If you build it, they still may not come: outcomes and process of implementing a community-based integrated knowledge translation mapping innovation
S Michelle Driedger, Anita Kothari, Ian D Graham, Elizabeth Cooper, Eric J Crighton, Melanie Zahab, Jason Morrison, Michael Sawada
The GRADE approach for assessing new technologies as applied to apheresis devices in ulcerative colitis
Nora Ibargoyen-Roteta, Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Rosa Rico-Iturrioz, Marta López-Argumedo, Eva Reviriego-Rodrigo, Jose Luis Cabriada-Nuño, Holger J Schünemann
The impact of social networks on knowledge transfer in long-term care facilities: Protocol for a study
Anne E Sales, Carole A Estabrooks, Thomas W Valente
Patient safety in Dutch primary care: a study protocol
Mirjam Harmsen, Sander Gaal, Simone van Dulmen, Eimert de Feijter, Paul Giesen, Annelies Jacobs, Lucie Martijn, Theodorus Mettes, Wim Verstappen, Ria Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Michel Wensing
Healthcare professionals' intentions to use clinical guidelines: a survey using the theory of planned behaviour
Tiina Kortteisto, Minna Kaila, Jorma Komulainen, Taina Mäntyranta, Pekka Rissanen
Implementing quality indicators in intensive care units: exploring barriers to and facilitators of behaviour change
Maartje LG de Vos, Sabine N van der Veer, Wilco C Graafmans, Nicolette F de Keizer, Kitty J Jager, Gert P Westert, Peter HJ van der Voort
Interprofessional collaborative practice within cancer teams: Translating evidence into action. A mixed methods study protocol
Dominique Tremblay, Danielle Drouin, Ariella Lang, Danièle Roberge, Judith Ritchie, Anne Plante
The implementation of a translational study involving a primary care based behavioral program to improve blood pressure control: The HTN-IMPROVE study protocol (01295)
Hayden B Bosworth, Daniel Almirall, Bryan J Weiner, Mathew Maciejewski, Miriam A Kaufman, Benjamin J Powers, Eugene Z Oddone, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Teresa M Damush, Valerie Smith, Maren K Olsen, Daren Anderson, Christianne L Roumie, Susan Rakley, Pamela S Del Monte, Michael E Bowen, Jeffrey D Kravetz, George L Jackson
Multiple uncontrolled conditions and blood pressure medication intensification: an observational study
Amanda H Salanitro, Ellen Funkhouser, Bonita S Agee, Jeroan J Allison, Jewell H Halanych, Thomas K Houston, Mark S Litaker, Deborah A Levine, Monika M Safford
Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews
Rebecca Ganann, Donna Ciliska, Helen Thomas
The translation research in a dental setting (TRiaDS) programme protocol
Jan E Clarkson, Craig R Ramsay, Martin P Eccles, Sandra Eldridge, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Marie Johnston, Susan Michie, Shaun Treweek, Alan Walker, Linda Young, Irene Black, Debbie Bonetti, Heather Cassie, Jill Francis, Gillian MacKenzie, Lorna MacPherson, Lorna McKee, Nigel Pitts, Jim Rennie, Doug Stirling, Colin Tilley, Carole Torgerson, Luke Vale
Evaluating the impact of MEDLINE filters on evidence retrieval: study protocol
Salimah Z Shariff, Meaghan S Cuerden, R Brian Haynes, K Ann McKibbon, Nancy L Wilczynski, Arthur V Iansavichus, Mark R Speechley, Amardeep Thind, Amit X Garg
Increasing delivery of an outdoor journey intervention to people with stroke: A feasibility study involving five community rehabilitation teams
Annie McCluskey, Sandy Middleton
Measuring the context of care in an Australian acute care hospital: a nurse survey
Timothy J Schultz, Alison L Kitson
Does dissemination extend beyond publication: a survey of a cross section of public funded research in the UK
Paul M Wilson, Mark Petticrew, Michael W Calnan, Irwin Nazareth
Embedding effective depression care: using theory for primary care organisational and systems change
Jane M Gunn, Victoria J Palmer, Christopher F Dowrick, Helen E Herrman, Frances E Griffiths, Renata Kokanovic, Grant A Blashki, Kelsey L Hegarty, Caroline L Johnson, Maria Potiriadis, Carl R May
'To take care of the patients': Qualitative analysis of Veterans Health Administration personnel experiences with a clinical informatics system
Laura M Bonner, Carol E Simons, Louise E Parker, Elizabeth M Yano, JoAnn E Kirchner
What are possible barriers and facilitators to implementation of a Participatory Ergonomics programme?
Maurice T Driessen, Karin Groenewoud, Karin I Proper, Johannes R Anema, Paulien M Bongers, Allard J van der Beek
Process evaluation of a participatory ergonomics programme to prevent low back pain and neck pain among workers
Maurice T Driessen, Karin I Proper, Johannes R Anema, Paulien M Bongers, Allard J van der Beek
The importance of organizational characteristics for improving outcomes in patients with chronic disease: a systematic review of congestive heart failure
Luci K Leykum, Michael Parchman, Jacqueline Pugh, Valerie Lawrence, Polly H Noël, Reuben R McDaniel Jr
Systematic evaluation of implementation fidelity of complex interventions in health and social care
Henna Hasson
Study protocol: Cost effectiveness of two strategies to implement the NVOG guidelines on hypertension in pregnancy: An innovative strategy including a computerised decision support system compared to a common strategy of professional audit and feedback, a randomized controlled trial
Susanne HE Luitjes, Maurice GAJ Wouters, Arie Franx, Hubertina CJ Scheepers, Veerle MH Coupé, Huub Wollersheim, Eric AP Steegers, Martijn P Heringa, Rosella PMG Hermens, Maurits W van Tulder
Scoping studies: advancing the methodology
Danielle Levac, Heather Colquhoun, Kelly K O'Brien
Development of a primary care-based complex care management intervention for chronically ill patients at high risk for hospitalization: a study protocol
Tobias Freund, Michel Wensing, Cornelia Mahler, Jochen Gensichen, Antje Erler, Martin Beyer, Ferdinand M Gerlach, Joachim Szecsenyi, Frank Peters-Klimm
Using the theory of planned behaviour as a process evaluation tool in randomised trials of knowledge translation strategies: A case study from UK primary care
Craig R Ramsay, Ruth E Thomas, Bernard L Croal, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Martin P Eccles
Factors that influenced county system leaders to implement an evidence-based program: a baseline survey within a randomized controlled trial
Wei Wang, Lisa Saldana, C Hendricks Brown, Patricia Chamberlain
The IGNITE (investigation to guide new insight into translational effectiveness) trial: Protocol for a translational study of an evidenced-based wellness program in fire departments
Diane L Elliot, Kuehl S Kerry, Esther L Moe, Carol A DeFrancesco, Linn Goldberg, David P MacKinnon, Jeanne Enders, Kim C Favorite
Data for improvement and clinical excellence: protocol for an audit with feedback intervention in long-term care
Anne E Sales, Corinne Schalm
Employing external facilitation to implement cognitive behavioral therapy in VA clinics: a pilot study
Michael R Kauth, Greer Sullivan, Dean Blevins, Jeffrey A Cully, Reid D Landes, Qayyim Said, Thomas A Teasdale
Collaborative research between clinicians and researchers: a multiple case study of implementation
Dean Blevins, Mary S Farmer, Carrie Edlund, Greer Sullivan, JoAnn E Kirchner
Determinants of research use in clinical decision making among physical therapists providing services post-stroke: a cross-sectional study
Nancy M Salbach, Sara JT Guilcher, Susan B Jaglal, David A Davis
The trainees' perspective on developing an end-of-grant knowledge translation plan
Brenda MY Leung, Cristina Catallo, Natalie D Riediger, Naomi E Cahill, Monika Kastner
Conservation of resources theory and research use in health systems
Celeste Alvaro, Renée F Lyons, Grace Warner, Stevan E Hobfoll, Patricia J Martens, Ronald Labonté, E Richard Brown
A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to improve post-fracture investigation and management of patients at risk of osteoporosis
Elizabeth A Little, Martin P Eccles
A pragmatic study exploring the prevention of delirium among hospitalized older hip fracture patients: Applying evidence to routine clinical practice using clinical decision support
Jayna M Holroyd-Leduc, Greg A Abelseth, Farah Khandwala, James L Silvius, David B Hogan, Heidi N Schmaltz, Cyril B Frank, Sharon E Straus
A critical synthesis of literature on the promoting action on research implementation in health services (PARIHS) framework
Christian D Helfrich, Laura J Damschroder, Hildi J Hagedorn, Ginger S Daggett, Anju Sahay, Mona Ritchie, Teresa Damush, Marylou Guihan, Philip M Ullrich, Cheryl B Stetler
Effective continuing professional development for translating shared decision making in primary care: A study protocol
France Légaré, Hilary Bekker, Sophie Desroches, Mary Politi, Dawn Stacey, Francine Borduas, Francine M Cheater, Jacques Cornuz, Marie-France Coutu, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff, Nora Ferdjaoui-Moumjid, Frances Griffiths, Martin Härter, Cath Jackson, André Jacques, Tanja Krones, Michel Labrecque, Rosario Rodriguez, Michel Rousseau, Mark Sullivan
Factors influencing success in quality-improvement collaboratives: development and psychometric testing of an instrument
Loes MT Schouten, Richard PTM Grol, Marlies EJL Hulscher
User's perspectives of barriers and facilitators to implementing quality colonoscopy services in Canada: a study protocol
Gilles Jobin, Marie Pierre Gagnon, Bernard Candas, Catherine Dubé, Anis Ben Abdeljelil, Sonya Grenier
Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain by allied health professionals (the ALIGN trial): A cluster randomised trial protocol
Joanne E McKenzie, Denise A O'Connor, Matthew J Page, Duncan S Mortimer, Simon D French, Bruce F Walker, Jennifer L Keating, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Susan Michie, Jill J Francis, Sally E Green
The QUIT-PRIMO provider-patient Internet-delivered smoking cessation referral intervention: a cluster-randomized comparative effectiveness trial: study protocol
Thomas K Houston, Rajani S Sadasivam, Daniel E Ford, Joshua Richman, Midge N Ray, Jeroan J Allison
Determinants of preventable readmissions in the United States: a systematic review
Joshua R Vest, Larry D Gamm, Brock A Oxford, Martha I Gonzalez, Kevin M Slawson
The Rx for Change database: a first-in-class tool for optimal prescribing and medicines use
Michelle C Weir, Rebecca Ryan, Alain Mayhew, Julia Worswick, Nancy Santesso, Dianne Lowe, Bill Leslie, Adrienne Stevens, Sophie Hill, Jeremy M Grimshaw
Process evaluation of appreciative inquiry to translate pain management evidence into pediatric nursing practice
Tricia Kavanagh, Bonnie Stevens, Kate Seers, Souraya Sidani, Judy Watt-Watson
Disseminating research findings: what should researchers do? A systematic scoping review of conceptual frameworks
Paul M Wilson, Mark Petticrew, Mike W Calnan, Irwin Nazareth
Using knowledge brokers to facilitate the uptake of pediatric measurement tools into clinical practice: a before-after intervention study
Dianne J Russell, Lisa M Rivard, Stephen D Walter, Peter L Rosenbaum, Lori Roxborough, Dianne Cameron, Johanna Darrah, Doreen J Bartlett, Steven E Hanna, Lisa M Avery
Determinants of the intention of elementary school nurses to adopt a redefined role in health promotion at school
Guylaine Chabot, Gaston Godin, Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Short- and long-term effects of a quality improvement collaborative on diabetes management
Loes MT Schouten, Marlies EJL Hulscher, Jannes JE van Everdingen, Robbert Huijsman, Louis W Niessen, Richard PTM Grol
Making sense of health information technology implementation: A qualitative study protocol
Rebecca R Kitzmiller, Ruth A Anderson, Reuben R McDaniel Jr
Usability evaluation of a clinical decision support tool for osteoporosis disease management
Monika Kastner, Danielle Lottridge, Christine Marquez, David Newton, Sharon E Straus
Using intervention mapping to develop and adapt a secondary stroke prevention program in Veterans Health Administration medical centers
Arlene A Schmid, Jane Andersen, Thomas Kent, Linda S Williams, Teresa M Damush
Feedback GAP: study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care
Noah M Ivers, Karen Tu, Jill Francis, Jan Barnsley, Baiju Shah, Ross Upshur, Alex Kiss, Jeremy M Grimshaw, Merrick Zwarenstein
Fidelity of implementation: development and testing of a measure
Rosalind E Keith, Faith P Hopp, Usha Subramanian, Wyndy Wiitala, Julie C Lowery