What´s Knowledge Translation?

Knowledge Translation

Introduction
The ignorance of available research evidence, health care delivery loses opportunity to provide benefit to the patients and may harm significantly (Dawes et al 2005). Therefore, health care professionals are now adopting new innovative evidence based practices in addition to traditional practices. Moreover, evidence based practice (EBP) is rapidly gaining popularity because of its ability to manage clinical issues and deliver effective patient care (Majid et al 2011). EBP is the conscientious amalgamation of best research knowledge with clinician’s expertise and patient values and requirements in the delivery of better health care (Burns and Grove 2009: 16). Florence Nightingale initiated EBP in nursing practice since 150 years back (Burns and Grove 2009: 16) and it is “essential for nurses to establish who they are, what they do, and what effect they have on patient outcomes” (Richardson, Miller and Potter 2002: 44). Historically, knowledge gained from medical colleges, peer interaction and preferences of medical providers were driven nurses for clinical decision making (McKnight 2006). Knowledge is one of the dimensions for implementing EBP (Shaneyfelt et al. 2006) therefore, evidence based knowledge required to be transferred for the improvement of patient outcomes.

Knowledge Translation (KT) defined as “the exchange, synthesis and ethically sound application of knowledge within a complex system of interactions among researchers and users to accelerate the capture of the benefits of research for citizens through improved health, more effective services and products, and a strengthened health care system” (CIHR 2006). It has been increasingly used in Public health research for the description...

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...the information, their experiences, queries and how new intervention can be used within their working context. Therefore, it can encourage the group for the interaction.
3. Clinical Rounds
Melnyk and Fineout-Overhold (2005) suggest that during clinical rounds, the experts or clinicians make recommendations to the staff for clinical practice on the basis of the critically appraised evidence. Therefore, evidenced based clinical round is a method of knowledge transfer to the clinical staff by presenting evidence to guide their practice.

Evaluation Methods-
 Clinical audit
 Evaluative reflective practice
 Quality improvement techniques such as PDSA (Plan, Do, Study and Act) cycle

Clinical audit, evaluative reflective practice and quality improvement techniques are all systematic approaches to determine the effectiveness of practice (Le May and Holmes 2012)