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SynthesisThe Milbank quarterly2007

Knowledge transfer and exchange: review and synthesis of the literature.

Craig Mitton, Carol E Adair, Emily McKenzie, Scott B Patten, Brenda Waye Perry

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Synthesis in The Milbank quarterly, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 238 papers, 20 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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238citing papers in PubMed, 20 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

238 citing papers in PubMed, 20 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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178 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Craig MittonUniversity of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC. craig.mitton@ubc.ca
Carol E Adair
Emily McKenzie
Scott B Patten
Brenda Waye Perry

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) is as an interactive process involving the interchange of knowledge between research users and researcher producers. Despite many strategies for KTE, it is not clear which ones should be used in which contexts. This article is a review and synthesis of the KTE literature on health care policy. The review examined and summarized KTE's current evidence base for KTE. It found that about 20 percent of the studies reported on a real-world application of a KTE strategy, and fewer had been formally evaluated. At this time there is an inadequate evidence base for doing "evidence-based" KTE for health policy decision making. Either KTE must be reconceptualized, or strategies must be evaluated more rigorously to produce a richer evidence base for future activity.

Indexed as

Diffusion of InnovationEvidence-Based MedicineHealth PolicyKnowledgeDecision MakingHealth Services ResearchHumansInformation Dissemination

Identifiers

PMID18070335
PMCPMC2690353

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