Backwards design or looking sideways? Knowledge translation in the real world: Comment on “a call for a backward design to knowledge translation”

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 545-547

  Bowen, Sarah ^a   Graham, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Engaged scholarship; Evidence use; Knowledge Translation (KT)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002142070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23225939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.71     Document Type: Note

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