Implementing stakeholder-informed research in the substance abuse treatment sector: Strategies used by Connections, a Canadian knowledge translation and exchange project

Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Henderson, Joanna ^a   Sword, Wendy ^b   Niccols, Alison ^b   Dobbins, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addiction services; Integrated knowledge translation; Policy makers; Service providers; Stakeholder informed research; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84904718298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1747597X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-9-21     Document Type: Article

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