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Systematic review of knowledge translation strategies in the allied health professions

2012· review· en· 339 citations· W2154204806 on OpenAlex· 10.1186/1748-5908-7-70

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.
Canadian funderA Canadian agency funded it. The work may carry no Canadian affiliation at all.

Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
Metaresearch
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Systematic reviewConsensus signal: Systematic review
Genre
Candidate signal: ReviewConsensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score
0.209
Threshold uncertainty score
0.994
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0350.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.765
GPT teacher head0.739
Teacher spread
0.027 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Knowledge translation (KT) aims to close the research-practice gap in order to realize and maximize the benefits of research within the practice setting. Previous studies have investigated KT strategies in nursing and medicine; however, the present study is the first systematic review of the effectiveness of a variety of KT interventions in five allied health disciplines: dietetics, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and speech-language pathology. METHODS: A health research librarian developed and implemented search strategies in eight electronic databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, ERIC, PASCAL, EMBASE, IPA, Scopus, CENTRAL) using language (English) and date restrictions (1985 to March 2010). Other relevant sources were manually searched. Two reviewers independently screened the titles and abstracts, reviewed full-text articles, performed data extraction, and performed quality assessment. Within each profession, evidence tables were created, grouping and analyzing data by research design, KT strategy, targeted behaviour, and primary outcome. The published descriptions of the KT interventions were compared to the Workgroup for Intervention Development and Evaluation Research (WIDER) Recommendations to Improve the Reporting of the Content of Behaviour Change Interventions. RESULTS: A total of 2,638 articles were located and the titles and abstracts were screened. Of those, 1,172 full-text articles were reviewed and subsequently 32 studies were included in the systematic review. A variety of single (n = 15) and multiple (n = 17) KT interventions were identified, with educational meetings being the predominant KT strategy (n = 11). The majority of primary outcomes were identified as professional/process outcomes (n = 25); however, patient outcomes (n = 4), economic outcomes (n = 2), and multiple primary outcomes (n = 1) were also represented. Generally, the studies were of low methodological quality. Outcome reporting bias was common and precluded clear determination of intervention effectiveness. In the majority of studies, the interventions demonstrated mixed effects on primary outcomes, and only four studies demonstrated statistically significant, positive effects on primary outcomes. None of the studies satisfied the four WIDER Recommendations. CONCLUSIONS: Across five allied health professions, equivocal results, low methodological quality, and outcome reporting bias limited our ability to recommend one KT strategy over another. Further research employing the WIDER Recommendations is needed to inform the development and implementation of effective KT interventions in allied health.

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The record

Venue
Implementation Science
Topic
Health Sciences Research and Education
Field
Health Professions
Canadian institutions
NOSM UniversityStollery Children's HospitalGlenrose Rehabilitation HospitalUniversity of ManitobaChildren's Hospital Research Institute of ManitobaWomen and Children’s Health Research InstituteWinnipeg Regional Health AuthorityUniversity of Alberta
Funders
Hospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of TorontoFondation pour la Recherche MédicaleAlberta InnovatesUniversity of South AustraliaWomen and Children's Health Research InstituteUniversity of WestminsterCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchRoyal SocietyCanadian Child Health Clinician Scientist ProgramChildren's Health Research InstituteUniversity of AlbertaChild and Family Research Institute
Keywords
CINAHLMedicinePsychological interventionKnowledge translationWorkgroupMEDLINEMedical educationNursing researchSystematic reviewHealth services researchHealth informaticsNursingFamily medicinePublic healthKnowledge management
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes