SynthesisThe Milbank quarterly2010
Knowledge exchange processes in organizations and policy arenas: a narrative systematic review of the literature.
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130 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mapping the Qualitative Evidence Base on the Use of Research Evidence in Health Policy-Making: A Systematic Review.International journal of health policy and management · 2022Pooled it
- 10 years of mindlines: a systematic review and commentary.Implementation science : IS · 2015Pooled it
- How contexts and issues influence the use of policy-relevant research syntheses: a critical interpretive synthesis.The Milbank quarterly · 2013Pooled it
- Cultivating researcher-policymaker partnerships: A randomized controlled trial of a model for training public psychologists.The American psychologist · 2021Trial
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- Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM): Protocol for a cluster-randomized trial.Trials · 2017Trial
- Reframing knowledge translation for health policy in Kenya: actors, practices and the constitutive role of context.Health research policy and systems · 2026Article
- Bridging research and practice in a learning health system: Developing and refining an embedded scholars program through insights from scholars and clinical mentors.Learning health systems · 2025Article
- A scoping review of knowledge translation in strengthening health policy and practice: sources, platforms, tools, opportunities, and challenges.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- How integrated knowledge translation worked to reduce federal policy barriers to the implementation of medication abortion in Canada: a realist evaluation.Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Sex Offender Recidivism: Some Lessons Learned From Over 70 Years of Research.Criminal justice review · 2024Article
- Use of research evidence in U.S. federal policymaking: A reflexive report on intra-stage mixed methods.Evaluation and program planning · 2024Article
- Overcoming Common Anxieties in Knowledge Translation: Advice for Scholarly Issue Advocates.The Milbank quarterly · 2024Article
- Evidence-informed stakeholder consultations to promote rights-based approaches for children with disabilities.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2024Article
- "I would not wait for them to commit crime": Cesare Lombroso's criminal anthropology in Croatia.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2023Article
- Toward a Values-Informed Approach to Complexity in Health Care: Hermeneutic Review.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Review
- Using evidence in mental health policy agenda-setting in low- and middle-income countries: a conceptual meta-framework from a scoping umbrella review.Health policy and planning · 2023Article
- Cutting through the noise during crisis by enhancing the relevance of research to policymakers.Evidence & policy : a journal of research, debate and practice · 2023Article
- Barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based interventions in the context of a randomized clinical trial in the United States: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Applying behaviour change models to policy-making: development and validation of the Policymakers' Information Use Questionnaire (POLIQ).Health research policy and systems · 2023Article
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Abstract
contextThis article presents the main results from a large-scale analytical systematic review on knowledge exchange interventions at the organizational and policymaking levels. The review integrated two broad traditions, one roughly focused on the use of social science research results and the other focused on policymaking and lobbying processes.
methodsData collection was done using systematic snowball sampling. First, we used prospective snowballing to identify all documents citing any of a set of thirty-three seminal papers. This process identified 4,102 documents, 102 of which were retained for in-depth analysis. The bibliographies of these 102 documents were merged and used to identify retrospectively all articles cited five times or more and all books cited seven times or more. All together, 205 documents were analyzed. To develop an integrated model, the data were synthesized using an analytical approach.
findingsThis article developed integrated conceptualizations of the forms of collective knowledge exchange systems, the nature of the knowledge exchanged, and the definition of collective-level use. This literature synthesis is organized around three dimensions of context: level of polarization (politics), cost-sharing equilibrium (economics), and institutionalized structures of communication (social structuring).
conclusionsThe model developed here suggests that research is unlikely to provide context-independent evidence for the intrinsic efficacy of knowledge exchange strategies. To design a knowledge exchange intervention to maximize knowledge use, a detailed analysis of the context could use the kind of framework developed here.
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