Knowledge management practices and healthcare delivery

"Being a knowledge driven process, healthcare delivery provides opportunity to incorporate knowledge management practices to improve processes."

Knowledge management practices and healthcare delivery: a contingency framework
P Bordoloi, N Islam
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, 2012, 10(1)

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Guideline-based development of quality indicators

"For the efficient development of high-quality quality indicators, rigorous, approved, and evidence-based development methods are needed."

Methods for the guideline-based development of quality indicators - a systematic review
T Kotter, E Blozik, M Scherer
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:21

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Assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence

In the third paper in a three-part series on health systems guidance, Simon Lewin and colleagues explore the importance of assessing how much confidence to place in different types of research evidence with regards to informing judgements regarding policy options to address health systems problems.

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: Assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence
S Lewin, et al.
PLoS Medicine, 9(3):e1001187

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Rationale for and challenges of guidance development

"This is one paper in a three-part series that sets out how evidence should be translated into guidance to inform policies on health systems and improve the delivery of clinical and public health interventions."

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: rationale for and challenges of guidance development
X Bosch-Capblanch, et al.
PLoS Medicine, 2012, 9(3):e1001185

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Linking guidance development to policy development

"In the second paper in a three-part series on health systems guidance, John Lavis and colleagues explore the challenge of linking guidance development and policy development at global and national levels."

Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: linking guidance development to policy development
JN Lavis, et al.
PLoS Medicine, 2012, 9(3):e1001186

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Using evidence to improve social policy and practice

This is a collection of essays looking at how to make decisions based on good quality evidence.

Using evidence to improve social policy and practice: perspectives on how research and evidence can influence decision making
NESTA
October 2011

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Facilitating the use of research evidence

"Facilitating the use of research is the topic of a newly published virtual issue of The Milbank Quarterly. The issue includes, in chronological order, twenty-two articles and two commentaries that were published in the Quarterly between 2001 and 2011."

Facilitating the use of research evidence
Milbank Quarterly - 2011 Milbank Memorial Fund
Edited by Bradford H. Gray
2011

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Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs

"This research was commissioned to inform when NICE should approve health technologies only in research (OIR) or with research (AWR)."

Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs: Informing approval, pricing and research decisions for health technologies
K Claxton, S Palmer, L Longworth, L Bojke, S Griffin, C McKenna, M Soares, E Spackman, J Youn
Centre for Health Economics
October 2011

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