Getting research findings into practice: Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings

BMJ 1998;317:465-468 ( 15 August )

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Getting research findings into practice

Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings

This is the seventh in a series of eight articles analysing the gap between research and practice

Lisa A Bero, associate professor, ^a Roberto Grilli, head, ^b Jeremy M Grimshaw, programme director, ^c Emma Harvey, research fellow, ^d Andrew D Oxman, director, ^e Mary Ann Thomson, senior research fellow, ^c on behalf of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group.

^a Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California at San Francisco, 1388 Sutter Street, 11th floor, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA, ^b Unit of Clinical Policy Analysis, Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milan, Italy, ^c Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, ^d Department of Health Sciences and Clinical Evaluation, University of York, York YO1 5DD, ^e Health Services Research Unit, National Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404 Torshov, N-0462 Oslo, Norway

Correspondence to: Dr Grimshaw j.m.grimshaw@abdn.ac.uk

Series editors: Andrew Haines and Anna Donald

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Despite the considerable amount of money spent on clinical research relatively little attention has been paid to ensuringthat the findings of research are implemented in routine clinicalpractice.¹ There are many different types of intervention thatcan be used to promote behavioural change among healthcare professionalsand the implementation of research findings. Disentangling theeffects of intervention from the influence of contextual factorsis difficult when interpreting the results of individual trialsof behavioural change.² Nevertheless, systematic reviews ofrigorous studies provide the best evidence of the effectivenessof different strategies for promoting behavioural change. ³ ⁴ In this paper we examine systematic reviews of different strategiesfor the dissemination and implementation of research findingsto identify evidence of the effectiveness of different strategiesand to assess the quality of the systematic reviews.

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