Knowledge Summaries
Promising Practices in Research Use is a series that highlights healthcare organizations that have invested their time, energy and resources to improve their ability to use research. Each story in this series highlights the experience of an organization that has identified an area to improve, has developed a strategy to do so, and is beginning to realize the benefits in health services management or policy.
In this space, you can learn about what other organizations are doing. You can also ask the Foundation for help in transplanting one of these practices to your own organization. Finally, you can tell us about a promising practice of your own, for a possible story to be added to this inventory.
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Read our latest issue: How advanced access is reducing wait times in Cape Breton (August 2009) |
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August Number 25 |
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June Number 24 |
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May Number 23 |
Providing more choices for those who depend on ventilators. How a health authority is using evidence to decrease pressure |
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April Number 22 |
This health services centre is using a research journal as a tool to promote evidence-based practice among nursing staff. |
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March Number 21 |
Capturing and transferring the tacit knowledge of nurses in a health and social services centre. |
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February Number 20 |
A rehabilitation institute launches an interprofessional best practice skill development program. |
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| 2008 | ||
November Number 19 |
This health region takes an evidence-based approach to addressing overcrowding in emergency departments. |
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| April Number 18 |
A health services centre is developing pathways to strengthen the ability of family physicians to manage their patients and improve the primacy-secondary care transition. |
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| March Number 17 |
A health region has used evidence to develop a program to build key competencies among managers with new responsibilities for public health management. |
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| February Number 16 |
A division within a health region is granting employees the time they need to engage in research. |
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| 2007 | ||
| November/ December Issue 15 |
Engaging front-line staff: How a long-term care home is using evidence to build a quality-improvement culture
A long term care home is providing front-line employees training, support and tools to transition the organization towards a quality improvement culture. |
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| October Issue 14 |
If you build it, they will stay: How a hospital network is using evidence to guide a professional development-based approach to nurse retention and patient care
This Toronto hospital network is using professional development for nurses to improve their research capacity and, thus, their satisfaction and retention |
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| August Issue 13 |
Turning the tide on chronic disease: How a province is using evidence to build quality improvement capacity
Saskatchewan's Chronic Disease Management Collaborative is improving the quality of care people receive for chronic conditions. |
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| July Issue 12 |
Making every penny count in home and community care: How a health authority is using an evidence-informed process to link priorities and spending decisions
This B.C. health authority is using a a systematic method to set priorities and evidence to guide the allocation of resources to meet these priorities. |
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| June Issue 11 |
How a B.C. health authority is boosting its research capacity
This B.C. health authority is using the Foundation's "Is Research Working for You?" self-assessment tool to help boost its research capacity. |
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| June Issue 10 |
How a Quebec regional health and social services agency is systematically using evidence to transform its operations
An evidence-informed approach can help health system managers transform how they organize, manage and deliver health and social services. |
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| January Issue 9 |
How an RHA organized itself to better integrate evidence into decision-making
This regional health authority restructured itself to better integrate knowledge, research and innovation into its operations. |
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| 2006 | ||
| Issue 8 | How a B.C. health authority is using research evidence for better budgeting and priority-setting
This regional health authority has put in place an evidence-informed approach to its annual budget and priority-setting cycles. |
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| Issue 7 | How long-term care can harness research to improve quality
This long-term care association developed relationships with the research community to encourage research relevant to long-term care home needs and uptake of research information among its members. |
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| Issue 6 | How a B.C. hospital uses research evidence to improve care for elderly patients
This hospital's project to provide emergency department staff with research and evidence in geriatric health issues to improve the care of elderly patients is being rolled out across the province. |
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| Issue 5 | Bringing knowledge home: Embedding evidence in decision-making
This homecare organization changed its organizational culture to support the use of research evidence in decision-making. |
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| Issue 4 | How a health ministry helped staff understand and apply research evidence – over lunch
This health ministry has set up a monthly lunchtime program of interactive presentations on healthcare policy research to help improve the use of evidence in policy-making. |
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| 2005 | ||
| Issue 3 | How Manitoba regional health authorities support the use of research-based evidence in planning
These regional health authorities are working collaboratively to share knowledge and evidence to support health services planning. |
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| Issue 2 | How a regional health authority is helping its people better use research in decision-making
This regional health authority has reaped the benefits of a Foundation program to help senior mangers develop skills to better use evidence in their daily work and decision-making. |
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| Issue 1 | How a university health centre makes better use of evidence about new healthcare technologies This university health centre set up a technology assessment unit to examine technical evidence and professional staff viewpoints to help make decisions about investments in new technologies. |
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