Promoting Evidence-Based Health Policy, Programming, and Practice for Seniors: Lessons from a National Knowledge Transfer Project

Canadian Journal on Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-430

  McWilliam, Carol L ^a   Stewart, Moira ^a   Brown, Judith Belle ^a   Feightner, John ^a   Rosenberg, Mark ^b   Gutman, Gloria ^c   Penning, Margaret ^d   Stewart, Miriam ^e   Tamblyn, Robyn ^f   Morfitt, Grace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Applied health services research; Evidence based policy and service; Knowledge transfer; Research dissemination

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 1642431578     PISSN: 07149808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S071498080000427X     Document Type: Article

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