The Use of Health Care Policy to Facilitate Evidence-based Knowledge Translation in Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1030-1035

  Irvin, Charlene B ^a   Afilalo, Marc ^a   Sherman, Scott C ^a   Stack, Steven J ^a   Huckson, Sue ^a   Kaji, Amy ^a   Eskin, Barnet ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medicine; health care policy; knowledge translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 35548972959     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2007.06.022     Document Type: Article

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