CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research

A casebook of health services and policy research knowledge translation stories

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
160 Elgin Street, 9th Floor
Address Locator 4809A
Ottawa, ON K1A 0W9 Canada

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada (2006)
Cat. No.: Mr21-71/2006
ISBN: 0-662-69591-7

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Knowledge translation and patient safety: The Canadian Adverse Events Study
• Knowledge translation for practice change in children's mental health
• A collaborative model of knowledge translation for sustainable practice change
• Developing a model for the shared care of chronic disease
• SEARCH Canada: Building capacity in health organizations to create and use knowledge
• Responding from within: Women and self-harm
• A community-researcher alliance to improve chronic wound care
• PRISMA: Developing integrated services delivery for functional autonomy
• The Canadian Neonatal Network^TM - a novel model for knowledge translation
• Academic detailing in the Alberta Drug Utilization Program
• Piloting knowledge brokers to promote integrated stroke care in Atlantic Canada
• The Toronto East Network Knowledge Champion Project
• Advancing the nurse practitioner role in British Columbia
• Adopting medication reconciliation and seamless care services
• Nation-wide knowledge translation to promote research on seniors' independence
• KT in action: Manitoba's The Need To Know Team
• On the rock, in a hard place: Challenges in working with advocacy and care provider groups
• Exploring culturally respectful care in Aboriginal communities
• Guideline dissemination through integrated care networks: Lessons from Ontario's best practice guidelines for stroke care
• CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
• Expanding established knowledge translation networks to respond to a community in distress
• A multidisciplinary, multi-sectoral alliance to improve drug use in Nova Scotia
• Using an ambassador program to improve the management of chronic pain
• A collaborative evidence-based approach to improving workplace health and safety