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Table 2 KT strategies used or identified by participants

From: Designing a knowledge translation mentorship program to support the implementation of evidence-based innovations

Theme

Exemplary Quotes

Meetings (conference, workshop, rounds)

• information is conveyed in a lecture style or classroom setting (030)

• national and international presentations (038)

• go to the medical rounds or other conference or workshop (02)

• conferences, lectures, rounds (017)

Continuing education

• through continuing medical education (027)

• from a clinical perspective what you do is continuing medical education (010)

• continuing education programming, large group and small group (051)

Publications

• I think of more traditional KT strategies like journal publications (03)

• if it gets published then hopefully somebody will look at your paper (010)

• I’ve never really thought of anything other than publishing (011)

• part of that is publication (035)

Guidelines

• through instituting guidelines or clinical pathways (027)

• it might be incorporated into a practice guideline (01)

• I’m mostly involved in guideline development (014)

• Implementing new practice guidelines (01)

Policies

• through changing policies (027)

• if I am meeting with a policy maker then I become aware of their interests and what his constituency is interested in (04)

• we are regularly in contact with government (018)

Financial incentives

• financial incentives to do or financial disincentives not to do something (022)

Facilitators

• you have to find a local champion…to adjust it for their local setting (02)

• having influential people…advocate and or promote it (035)

• knowledge brokers…at the point of care facilitating best practice (016)

• get local opinion leaders involved (054)

Educational outreach/ Academic detailing

• academic detailing…a visitor goes to a practice and works with the individual to identify what their current practice is (033)

• academic detailing – a resource within your field who can come and observe and inform your practice through an interactive process (052)

• someone makes an appointment at your office and talks to you about best clinical practice based on research evidence (021)

Internet

• online web-based programs (027)

• posted on our website (038)

• web-based teaching resources, repositories of information (026)

Mass media

• we’ve done a lot of television, radio, and web interviews (015)

• I use the media when possible (05)

• I do over a hundred media interviews a year (018)

Interaction with users

• sometimes after the information has been developed it goes back to practitioners for some discussion about how they could use it (019)

• involving them from the start, networking with them (05)

• engaging the end-users in the design and the conduct of the research (021)

• debriefing sessions with participants of the research (030)