This article illustrates the development, current status and future prospects of knowledge translation. Its importance and necessity are introduced and some measurements or approaches to promote knowledge translation are discussed.
Testing Treatments is a book to help the public understand how to validate the efficacy of testing treatments and the possible bias and error in clinical trial, as well as to call for help to promote good study thus to improve the quality of health care. No matter for the first or the second edition, this book is very popular around the world, and its second edition has been translated into more than ten languages. To help the readers understand the content of the book, we established a website (www.testingtreatments.org) and other sibling sites in different languages. The website not only provided the full-texts to download, but also collected various popular science resources (videos, audios and cartoons) to help the readers assimilate more knowledge. The editors of all the different language websites have established an TTi Editorial Alliance to share experience and provide each other with mutual support, thus to promote health professionals, patients and public around the world to use reliable research to inform their health decisions.
The Clearinghouse plays an important role in knowledge translation in western developed countries. It consistently provides the latest evidence to target customers according to its strict criteria in the specific fields. Clearinghouse is objectively and scientifically designed to assess the scientific nature and the practical applicability of evidence to provide the best current evidence to different service practitioners. It emphasizes much on the process from "knowledge production" to "knowledge utilization", which effectively fills the gap between scientific research and practice. It will play an increasing important role in the knowledge translation in the future. This article specifically introduces its history of development, characteristics and application and sets the construction of Chinese Clearinghouse for Evidence Translation in Child & Aging Health (CCET) as an example, fully elaborating the application status of Clearinghouse and providing assistance for evidence informed decision making.
As evidence-based practice (EBP) continues to be valued, the guideline implementation has become an important field for research and practice in health care. In order to better guide the guideline implementation in the field of health care, this paper combines the EBP experience gained from several EBP programs carried out in our hospital those years, in aim of exploring and sharing the methodology of guideline implementation in domestic clinical settings.
Knowledge translation (KT) provides a paradigm to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice, which has critical instructive significance for health promotion. This article expounds on the connotation of KT by comparing it with similar terms. Next, it introduces three kinds of common KT theoretical models, including process models, determinant frameworks, and evaluation frameworks. Finally, its application and experiences in health promotion are summarized to provide references for the ongoing health promotion in China.