Barriers, facilitators, strategies and outcomes to engaging policymakers, healthcare managers and policy analysts in knowledge synthesis: A scoping review protocol

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Tricco, Andrea C ^a,b   Zarin, Wasifa ^a   Rios, Patricia ^a   Pham, Ba' ^a   Straus, Sharon E ^c   Langlois, Etienne V ^d  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMBASE; ETHICS; EXERCISE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MANAGER; MEDLINE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PSYCINFO; PUBLICATION; SCREENING; STUDY DESIGN; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICE; KNOWLEDGE; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION;

EID: 85007602108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013929     Document Type: Article

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