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Public Engagement (Part III): How is it done? How can we tell if it's effective?

Issue 53 (June 2009)

2009
June Issue 53	Public Engagement (Part III): How is it done? How can we tell if it's effective?	PDF
April Issue 52	Measuring the impact of research: how can we show return on investments in health research? (Part II)	PDF
March Issue 51	How do I provide my expertise in a court of law? Tips for appearing as an expert witness	PDF
February Issue 50	Making Numbers Meaningful: What is "Number Needed to Treat" and How Can It Be Used To Inform Healthcare Decisions?	PDF
February Issue 49 Special double issue (48 - 49)	Public Engagement (Part II): *How Do Deliberative Processes Achieve Meaningful Public Engagement?	PDF
February Issue 48 Special double issue (48 - 49)	Public Engagement (Part I): *-Engaging the Public in Healthcare Policy: Why do it? And what are the challenges?	PDF
2008
November Issue 47	How can we improve communication between healthcare providers? Lessons from the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommentation) technique	PDF
October Issue 46	Measuring the Impact of Research: What do we know? (Part I)	PDF
September Issue 45	Is the News Media a Reliable Source for Sharing Research Results? And is it Worth the Effort to Share?	PDF
September Issue 44	“Developing Good Taste in Evidence”: Facilitators of and Hindrances to Evidence-Informed Health Policymaking in State Government Summary of an article by Christopher J. Jewell and Lisa A. Bero in The Milbank Quarterly in 2008.	PDF
August Issue 43	Using Theatrical Presentations as a Means of Disseminating Knowledge of HIV/AIDS Risk Factors to Migrant Farmworkers: An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Infórmate Program Summary of an article by Joseph D. Hovey, Victoria Booker and Laura D. Seligman in Journal of Immigrant Health in 2006.	PDF
August Issue 42	The role of intermediaries in getting evidence into policy and practice: some useful lessons from examining consultancy-client relationships Summary of an article by Chih Hoong Sin in Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice in 2008.	PDF
July Issue 41	Networks and social capital: a relational approach to primary healthcare reform Summary of an article by Catherine Scott and Anne Hofmeyer in Health Research Policy and Systems in 2007.	PDF
July Issue 40	Revisiting Interaction in Knowledge Translation Summary of an article by Liane R. Ginsburg, Steven Lewis, Lisa Zackheim and Ann Casebeer in 2007.	PDF
June Issue 39	Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes Summary of a book by Andy Goodman and Cause Communications in 2006.	PDF
June Issue 38	Knowledge Communication Problems between Experts and Decision Makers: an Overview and Classification Summary of an article by Martin J. Eppler in The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management in 2007.	PDF
May Issue 37	Wikinomics: How Mass Communication Changes Everything Summary of a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.	PDF
May Issue 36	Richard III, Barer-Stoddart and the Daughter of Time Summary of an article by Robert Evans and Kimberlyn McGrail in HealthCare Policy in 2008.	PDF
May Issue 35	Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die... Summary of a book by Chip and Dan Heath.	PDF
April Issue 34	When Health Services Researchers and Policy Makers Interact: Tales from the Tectonic Plates Summary of an article by Patricia J. Martens et Noralou P. Roos in Healthcare Policy in 2005.	PDF
April Issue 33	Describing the impact of health services and policy research Summary of an article by Shyama Kuruvilla, Nicholas Mays and Gill Walt in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy in 2007.	PDF
March Issue 32	The nature of evidence resources and knowledge translation for health promotion practitioners Summary of an article by Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters, Belinda Crockett and Helen Keleher in Health Promotion International in 2007.	PDF
March Issue 31	Local opinion leaders: Effects on professional practice and health care outcomes Summary of a systematic review by G. Doumit, M. Gattellari, J. Grimshaw, and M.A. O'Brien, in the Cochrane database of systematic reviews in 2007.	PDF
February Issue 30	Sharing and expanding academic and practitioner knowledge in health care Summary of an article by Jean Bartunek, Jordi Trullen, Eduard Bonet and Alfonso Sauquet published in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy in 2003.	PDF
February Issue 29	Government chief nursing officers' perceptions of barriers to using research on staffing Summary of an article by M. Baernholdt and N. M. Lang, published in International Nursing Review in 2007.	PDF
January Issue 28	A handbook on knowledge sharing: Strategies and recommendations for researchers, policymakers, and service providers Summary of a report by Lily Tsui, Sherry Ann Chapman, Laurie Schnirer and Sheena Stewart in 2006.	PDF
January Issue 27	Piloting knowledge brokers to promote integrated stroke care in Atlantic Canada Summary of an article by Renee Lyons, Grace Warner, Lynn Langille and Stephen J. Phillips in Evidence in action, acting on evidence: A casebook of health services and policy research knowledge translation stories in 2006.	PDF
2007
December Issue 26	The Truth About Building and Maintaining Successful Communities of Practice Summary of an article by Jill Garcia and Michael Dorohovich in Defense Acquisition Review Journal in 2005.	PDF
November Issue 25	Research, public policy-making, and knowledge-translation processes: Canadian efforts to build bridges Summary of an article by John N. Lavis in the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions in 2006.	PDF
November Issue 24	Obvious and not-so-obvious strategies to disseminate research Summary of an article by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Lesley L. Green, Lourdes J. Hernández-Cordero and Robert E. Fullilove in Health Promotion Practice in 2006.	PDF
November Issue 23	From science to service: A framework for the transfer of patient safety research into practice Summary of an article by Veronica F. Nieva, Robert Murphy, Nancy Ridley, Nancy Donaldson, John Combes, Pamela Mitchell, Christine Kovner, Elizabeth Hoy and Deborah Carpenter in Advances in Patient Safety: Volume 2 in 2005.	PDF
October Issue 22	Achieving buy-in: Building networks to facilitate knowledge transfer Summary of an article by Desre M. Kramer and Richard P. Wells in Science Communications in 2005.	PDF
October Issue 21	Wait time benchmarks, research evidence and the knowledge translation process Summary of an article by Diane E. Watson, Morris L. Barer, Heidi M. Matkovich and Michelle L. Gagnon in Healthcare Policy in 2007.	PDF
September Issue 20	Realist review — a new method of systematic review designed for complex policy interventions Summary of an article by Ray Pawson, Trisha Greenhalgh, Gill Harvey and Kieran Walshe in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy in 2005.	PDF
September Issue 19	Promoting informed choice: Transforming health care to dispense knowledge for decision making Summary of an article by Steven H. Woolf, Evelyn C.Y. Chan, Russell Harris, Stacey L. Sheridan, Clarence H. Braddock, Robert M. Kaplan, Alex Krist, Annette M. O’Connor and Sean Tunis in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2006.	PDF
August Issue 18	Hidden Assets: Young Professionals in Knowledge Networks Summary of a report by Victoria Cole, Carolee Buckler, Heather Creech and Terri Willard published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development in 2001.	PDF
August Issue 17	The Extent and Organizational Determinants of Research Utilization in Canadian Health Services Organizations Summary of an article by Omar Belkhodja, Nabil Amara, Réjean Landry and Mathieu Ouimet in Science Communication in 2007.	PDF
July Issue 16	Research dissemination: Actively bringing the research and policy worlds together Summary of an article by Ruth Lawrence, published in Evidence & Policy in 2006.	PDF
July Issue 15	Joining the Conversation: Newspaper Journalists’ Views on Working with Researchers Summary of an article by Charlotte Waddell et al. in Healthcare Policy in 2005.	PDF
June Issue 14	Being Around and Knowing the Players: Networks of Influence in Health Policy Summary of an article by Jenny M. Lewis in Social Science & Medicin in 2006.	PDF
June Issue 13	Commissioning research that is used: the experience of the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Research and Development Programme Summary of an article by Pauline Allen, Stephen Peckham, Stuart Anderson, and Nick Goodwin in Evidence & Policy in 2007.	PDF
June Issue 12	Lost in Knowledge Translation: Time for a Map? Summary of an article by Ian D. Graham, Jo Logan, Margaret B. Harrison, Sharon E. Straus, Jacqueline Tetroe in the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions in 2006.	PDF
June Issue 11	Development of a Framework for Knowledge Translation: Understanding User Context Summary of an article by Nora Jacobson, Dale Butterill, and Paula Goering in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy in 2003.	PDF
May Issue 10	From the trenches: Views from Decision Makers On Health Services Priority-Setting Summary of an article by San Patten, Craig Mitton, and Cam Donaldson in Health Services Management Research in 2005.	PDF
May Issue 9	Factors Influencing the Utilization of Research Findings by Health Policy Makers in a Developing Country: The Selection of Mali’s essential Medicines Summary of an article by Michael A. Albert, Atle Fretheim, and Diadié Maïga in Health Research Policy and Systems in 2007.	PDF
May Issue 8	An Interactive Integrative Approach to Translating Knowledge and Building a “Learning Organization” in Health Services Management Summary of an article by Somsak Chunharas in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization in 2006.	PDF
May Issue 7	Using health research in policy and practice: case studies from nine countries Summary of a report by Ray Moynihan.	PDF
May Issue 6	Can this Collaboration be Saved? Twenty Factors that can Make or Break any Group Effort Summary of an article by Paul Mattessich in Shelterforce Online in 2003.	PDF
April Issue 5	Effective storytelling: strategic business narrative techniques Summary of an article by Stephen Denning in Strategy & Leadership in 2006.	PDF
April Issue 4	Making policy when the evidence is in dispute Summary of an article by David Atkins, Joanna Siegel, and Jean Slutsky in Health Affairs in 2005.	PDF
April Issue 3	Facilitator tool kit Summary of an article by the Office of Quality Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.	PDF
April Issue 2	Using Networks to Enhance Health Services Delivery: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Propositions Summary of an article by Timothy R. Huerta, Ann Casebeer, and Madine VanderPlaat in Healthcare Papers in 2006.	PDF
March Issue 1	From research to practice: a knowledge transfer planning guide Summary of an article by Rhoda Reardon, John Lavis, and Jane Gibson in 2006.	PDF