Knowledge Translation and Barriers to Imaging Optimization in the Emergency Department

"This article outlines a research agenda to promote the dissemination and implementation (also known as knowledge translation) of evidence-based interventions for emergency department (ED) imaging, i.e., clinical pathways, clinical decision instruments, and clinical practice guidelines."

Knowledge Translation and Barriers to Imaging Optimization in the Emergency Department: A Research Agenda
MA Probst
Academic Emergency Medicine 2015;22:1455–1464

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Examining the implementation of NICE guidance

"In the UK, NHS hospitals receive large amounts of evidence-based recommendations for care delivery from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and other organisations. Little is known about how NHS organisations implement such guidance and best practice for doing so." 

Examining the implementation of NICE guidance: cross-sectional survey of the use of NICE interventional procedures guidance by NHS Trusts
K Lowson, M Jenks, A Filby, L Carr, B Campbell, J Powell
Implementation Science 2015, 10:93  doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0283-4

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Reforming incentives to promote evidence-based decisions at the point of care

"This paper adds an important perspective by describing how current financial incentives in the 
fee-for-service system lead to the overuse and underuse of services at the point of care by physicians and other clinicians."

Paying wisely: reforming incentives to promote evidence-based decisions at the point of care
EC Rich, T Lake, C Stone Valenzano
Mathematica Policy Research
October 2012

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