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Increasing research use in nursing: implications for clinical educators and managers
1 Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Increasing use of research in health care is a priority for stakeholders worldwide. National funding agencies such as the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation1 and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research2 have dedicated substantial resources to meeting this goal. Professional organisations3 4 actively encourage their members to integrate findings into practice. Similarly, the UK and USA have initiated comparable initiatives.5–7 This movement stems from a belief that incorporating research findings in clinical practice can improve patient outcomes while making health care more efficient. However, despite the many initiatives dedicated to implementing research findings in clinical practice, their success remains limited.8–10
There is little evidence-based guidance on how to improve research use in clinical practice.11 12 Modest effects are achieved, for example, with audit and feedback, reminders, and educational outreach, but results are often inconsistent10 and difficult to extrapolate to real-world settings. Recently, organisations, rather than individual practitioners, have been a focus of
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