A descriptive qualitative examination of knowledge translation practice among health researchers in Manitoba, Canada

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Sibley, Kathryn M ^a,b   Roche, Patricia L ^b   Bell, Courtney P ^b   Temple, Beverley ^a   Wittmeier, Kristy D M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Manitoba SPOR SUPPORT Unit   (Canada)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exchange; Health research; Implementation science; Knowledge mobilization; Qualitative analysis; Semi structured interviews; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AWARENESS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANITOBA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; KNOWLEDGE; PERSONNEL; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MANITOBA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85028869968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-017-2573-9     Document Type: Article

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