Model for bridging the translational “valleys of death” in spinal cord injury research

Journal of Healthcare Leadership

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-27

  Barrable, Bill ^a   Thorogood, Nancy ^a   Noonan, Vanessa ^a   Tomkinson, Jocelyn ^a   Joshi, Phalgun ^a   Stephenson, Ken ^a   Barclay, John ^a   Burns, Katharina Kovacs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical outcomes; Implementation; Knowledge mobilization; Praxis model; Spinal cord injuries; Translational research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906836555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11793201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/JHL.S58649     Document Type: Article

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