Knowledge brokering: The missing link in the evidence to action chain?

Evidence and Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-279

  Ward, Vicky ^a   House, Allan ^a   Hamer, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Implementation; Knowledge brokering; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949819819     PISSN: 17442648     EISSN: 17442656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/174426409X463811     Document Type: Article

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