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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
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Birdsell, J.M., Newton, M.S., Thornley, R., Adewale, A., Estabrooks, C., Norton, P.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
Download2007
Newton, M.S., Estabrooks, C., Adewale, A., Thornley, R., Norton, P., Birdsell, J.M.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
Download2007
Birdsell, J.M., Adewale, A., Estabrooks, C., Norton, P., Thornley, R., Newton, M.S.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
Download2007
Norton, P., Birdsell, J.M., Thornley, R., Estabrooks, C., Adewale, A., Newton, M.S.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
Download2007
Norton, P., Adewale, A., Birdsell, J.M., Thornley, R., Estabrooks, C., Newton, M.S.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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Health researchers in Alberta: An exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities
Download2007
Newton, M.S., Thornley, R., Estabrooks, C., Birdsell, J.M., Norton, P., Adewale, A.
Background: Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge, and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore, it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers...
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How should we evaluate the risk of bias of physical therapy trials?: A psychometric and meta-epidemiological approach towards developing guidelines for the design, conduct, and reporting of RCTs in Physical Therapy (PT) area: a study protocol.
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Armijo-Olivo, S., Saltaji, H., Rogers, T., Cummings, G. G., Fuentes, J., Hartling, L.
Background Numerous tools and items have been developed in all health areas to assess the risk of bias of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The Cochrane Collaboration (CC) released a new tool to assess bias in RCTs, based on empirical evidence quantifying the association between some design...
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2012
Barnard, D., Norton, P. G., Batra-Garga, N., Cummings, G. G., Estabrooks C. A., Cranley, L. A.
Background: In Canada, healthcare aides (also referred to as nurse aides, personal support workers, nursing assistants) are unregulated personnel who provide 70-80% of direct care to residents living in nursing homes. Although they are an integral part of the care team their contributions to the...
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Interventions that promote retention of experienced registered nurses in health care settings: A systematic review.
Interventions that promote retention of experienced registered nurses in health care settings: A systematic review.
Download2013-06-13
Lartey, S., Cummings, G. G., Profetto-McGrath, J.
AIM: The aim of this review was to report the effectiveness of strategies for retaining experienced Registered Nurses. BACKGROUND: Nursing researchers have noted that the projected nursing shortage, if not rectified, is expected to affect healthcare cost, job satisfaction and quality patient...
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Nursing home administrators’ perspectives on a study feedback report: A cross sectional survey.
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Hutchinson, A. M., Cranley, L. A, Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P. G., Cummings, G. G., Bostrom, A. M.
Background This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older...