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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2023

Why Is It So Hard to Evaluate Knowledge Exchange? Comment on "Sustaining Knowledge Translation Practices: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis".

Kathryn Oliver

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Peas in a Pod: The Process of Mutual Learning in Knowledge Exchange on Health Promotion Interventions Research.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025
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  3. The Knowledge Translation Pizza-Dilemma: A Response to Recent Commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kathryn OliverDepartment of Health Services Research and Policy, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4326-5258

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite a growth in knowledge translation (KT) or exchange activities, and a smaller growth in their evaluations, it remains challenging to identify evidence of efficacy. This could be due to well-documented political and logistical difficulties involved in evaluating knowledge exchange interventions. By bringing in theory from science and technology studies (STS), Borst et al

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Translational Research, BiomedicalTranslational Science, BiomedicalHumansKnowledgeBoundariesEvaluationInterdisciplinarityKnowledge Exchange

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PMID37579363
PMCPMC10461865

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