Trisha Greenhalgh opened the 1st Realist Evaluation and Synthesis conference in Liverpool last week with the question Should we align realist methodology and evidence-based medicine? She surveyed the audience to reveal a lot of uncertainty. She referred to the RealEBM…
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new methodologies for EBM?
Tagged with: credibility, critical appraisal, mixed methods, trustworthiness
Posted in Evidence-Based Medicine, methodology, RealEBM, realist review
Posted in Evidence-Based Medicine, methodology, RealEBM, realist review
Using clinical guidelines critically to define and measure best practice
Busy clinicians don’t have time to search for and appraise research articles; however many do use clinical guidelines to inform their practice. At the same time, we know that clinical guidelines do not always synthesise the highest quality research evidence…
Tagged with: applicable, clinical recommendations, clinicians, critical appraisal, important, local context, patients, relevant, transferable
Posted in best practice, clinical guidelines, knowledge translation
Posted in best practice, clinical guidelines, knowledge translation
Knowledge translation insights from management
Knowledge translation (KT) in healthcare is often criticised for being too linear. However, a lot of clinical research and healthcare literature is conceived and expressed in a linear fashion. Therefore, it is often challenging to recognise that the translation of…
Tagged with: best practice, boundaries, clinical practice, clinicians, critical appraisal, experience, learning organisation, linear thinking, organisational learning, organisations, quality, social learning, Tacit knowledge, theory
Posted in evidence-based health care, implementation, information, knowledge, knowledge translation, learning, management
Posted in evidence-based health care, implementation, information, knowledge, knowledge translation, learning, management
how much can you modify interventions without changing them?
This is a common and challenging question. Most often, research is done with a specific population of patients and the actual intervention may or may not be well described, especially when we are referring to complex or behavioural interventions. The…
Tagged with: critical appraisal, modification, Systematic review, tailoring
Posted in behaviour, change, implementation
Posted in behaviour, change, implementation
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