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2012
Richter, S., Caine, V., Chambers, T., Maina, G., Johnson, L., Darkwah, V., Yamane, H.
Background: Nurses must understand the needs and barriers of people who are homeless when they are in a health care environment in order to render effective care. Objective: The objective of this review is to synthesize research findings on studies that examine the needs and barriers of people...
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Advancing the argument for validity of the Alberta Context Tool with healthcare aides in residential long-term care
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Squires, J.E., Hayduk, L.A., Norton, P.G., Estabrooks, C.A., Cummings, G.G.
Background: Organizational context has the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, despite advances in understanding the theoretical base of organizational context, its measurement has not been adequately addressed, limiting our ability to quantify and assess context in...
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Assessment of Variation in the Alberta Context Tool: The Contribution of Unit Level Contextual Factors and Specialty in Canadian Pediatric Acute Care Settings
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Stevens, B., Squires, J.E., Hutchinson, A., Midodzi, W.K., Cummings, G.G., Kang, S.H., Scott, S., Estabrooks, C.A.
Background: There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this need. The instrument assesses 8 dimensions of context, which comprise 10...
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2009
Estabrooks, C.A., Norton, P.G., Cummings, G.G., Squires, J.E., Birdsell, J.M.
Background: The context of healthcare organizations such as hospitals is increasingly accepted as having the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, the mechanisms by which the organizational context influences evidence-based practices are not well understood. Current measures...
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2012
Cranley, L.A., Hutchinson, A.M., Batra-Garga, N., Norton, P., Estabrooks, C.A., Cummings, G.G., Bostrom, A.M.
Background: This project occurred during the course of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program of research. TREC is a multilevel and longitudinal research program being conducted in the three Canadian Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The main purpose of TREC...
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2011
Squires, J.E., Estabrooks, C., Gustavsson, P., Wallin, L.
Background: Interventions that have a better than random chance of increasing nurses' use of research are important to the delivery of quality patient care. However, few reports exist of successful research utilization in nursing interventions. Systematic identification and evaluation of...
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Knowledge-to-action processes in SHRTN Collaborative Communities of Practice: a study protocol
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Stolee, P., Kothari, A., Forbes, D., Conklin, J., Chambers, L., Le Clair, K.
Background: The Seniors Health Research Transfer Network (SHRTN) Collaborative is a network of networks that work together to improve the health and health care of Ontario seniors. The collaborative facilitates knowledge exchange through a library service, knowledge brokers (KBs), local...
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2012
Dawkins, P., Kahwa, E., Mill, J., Etowa, J., Hepburn,C., Richter, M.S., Muller, C.E.
Background: A multidisciplinary team of 20 researchers and research users from six countries – Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa – are collaborating on a 5-year (2007–12) program of research and capacity building project. This program of research situates nurses as leaders...
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2008
Boschma, G., Stevens, B., Estabrooks, C.A., Humphrey, C.K., Lander, J., Donner, G., Scott, S., Williams, J., Profetto-McGrath, J., McGilton, K., Watt-Watson, J., Squires, J., O'Brien-Pallas, L., Golden-Biddle, K.
Background: Organizational context plays a central role in shaping the use of research by healthcare professionals. The largest group of professionals employed in healthcare organizations is nurses, putting them in a position to influence patient and system outcomes significantly. However,...
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Study protocol for the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC): Building Context Through Case Studies in Long-Term Care Project (Project 2)
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Dopson, S., Morgan, D., Estabrooks, C.A., Degner, L., Hutchinson, A.M., Stewart, N., Rycroft-Malone, J.
Background: The organizational context in which healthcare is delivered is thought to play an important role in mediating the use of knowledge in practice. Additionally, a number of potentially modifiable contextual factors have been shown to make an organizational context more amenable to...