Knowledge translation in Iranian universities: Need for serious interventions

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gholami, Jaleh ^a,b   Ahghari, Sharareh ^a   Motevalian, Abbas ^c   Yousefinejad, Vahid ^b   Moradi, Ghobad ^d   Keshtkar, Abbasali ^e   Alami, Ali ^f   Mazloomzadeh, Saeideh ^g   Vakili, Mohammad M ^g   Chaman, Reza ^h   Salehi, Bahman ⁱ   Fazelzadeh, Omid ^j   Majdzadeh, Reza ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KURDISTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^f GONABAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^h SHAHROUD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

ⁱ ARAK UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^j SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; UNIVERSITY;

HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; IRAN; POLICY MAKING; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84887335867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-11-43     Document Type: Article

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