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Promoting evidence-based health policy, programming, and practice for seniors
— lessons from a national knowledge transfer project | | Author(s) | Carol L McWilliam, Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 22, no 4, Winter 2003 |
| Pages | pp 415-430 |
| Source | www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Preventative medicine ; Information needs ; Policy ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | In response to Canada's pressing need for effective evidence-based policy, services and practices specific to older people, national leaders representing all concerned stakeholders designed and implemented a National Consensus Process to promote spread, exchange, choice and uptake of research evidence on social and health issues associated with an ageing population. This article presents the innovative methods and evaluation of this 3-year project, illuminating for all constituencies the challenges and opportunities associated with promoting older people's independence through collaborative knowledge transfer efforts. 198 organisations and 65 individuals were surveyed at baseline, throughout the intervention, immediately post-intervention, and 1 year post-intervention. Knowledge from 783 studies was spread to 63,387 people, 90% of whom reported knowledge exchange. More than 50% of stakeholders reported using the research evidence, although processes for facilitating knowledge choice did not achieve consensus. Significant knowledge uptake occurred in two of the four research theme areas. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040227204 A |
| Classmark | L: LK2: UV:IK: QAD: 3J: 7S |
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