Events

Event: National Australian Conference Evidence-based Clinical Leadership
27th-29th May 2009 – National Wine Centre, Adelaide, Australia
The theme of this conference is “the perfect blend of evidence and practice”. It is being run by the Joanna Briggs Institute and will bring together the experience of evidence-based researchers and reviewers, guideline developers, clinicians, educators, policy makers, administrators and consumers to work toward improving techniques and methods of getting evidence into practice. Click here to read more.

Event: Operations research and lean health care: implementation successes and challenges
23rd-24th April 2009 – Vancouver, British Columbia
This conference will bring together users and practitioners to share their experiences implementing, sustaining and evaluating operations research and lean heath care projects. Click here for more.

Calls for Interest

Call for abstracts: 15th Qualitative Health Research Conference
4th-6th October 2009 – Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, British Columbia
The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is hosting this event for the purpose of disseminating and discussing developments in qualitative health research. The deadline for abstract submissions is 3rd April 2009. Click here to submit an abstract.

Call for interest: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
The Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford is accepting applications until 15th May for the new academic year for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care. This is a part-time programme consisting of six taught modules and a dissertation. Click here for more information.

Collaboration

Partnerships for knowledge exchange in health services research, policy and practice
P Mitchell, J Pirkis, J Hall, M Haas
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2009, 14(2), 104-111
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Evidence Based Practice

Evidence in the learning organization
GE Crites, MC McNamara, EA Akl, WS Richardson, CA Umscheid, J Nishikawa
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2009, 7:4
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Evidence Based Practice

Evidence in the learning organization
GE Crites, MC McNamara, EA Akl, WS Richardson, CA Umscheid, J Nishikawa
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2009, 7:4
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Events

Event: Evidence synthesis of qualitative research in Europe (ESQUIRE)
15th – 17th September 2009 – Sheffield
This course is designed to provide participants with a perspective on the methodology of qualitative systematic reviews (qualitative evidence syntheses). It will focus on methods that feature in the forthcoming guidance of the Cochrane Qualitative Research Methods Group but will also incorporate a broader perspective on available methods of qualitative synthesis. Click here to find out more.

Human Resources

Talent management in the era of the aging workforce: the critical role of knowledge transfer
TJ Calo
Public Personnel Management, 2008, 37(4), pp403-416
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Education

iTunes U
iTunes U is a new feature available from the iTunes store, featuring lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more. All of these learning resources can be enjoyed on iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. There are more than 100,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world, including University of Oxford, Yale University, MIT, and the Open University. Click here to find out more. (NB you will need to download a copy of iTunes first to access the iTunes store).

Decision Making

Tensions associated with the use of electronic knowledge resources within clinical decision-making processes: a multiple case study
N Mysore, P Pluye, RM Grad, J Johnson-Lafleur
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2009, 78(5), pp321-329
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Tools

Management Tools 2009: An Executive’s Guide
Following research, this guide, produced by Bain & Company, defines the 25 most popular and pertinent management tools. It is a useful reference guide which provides an overview of each product, listing similar resources, describing the methodology how it is used and further reading. The reference book covers tools to support balanced storecard, benchmarking, collaborative innovation, decision rights, knowledge management, lean six sigma, online communities, total quality management, and voice of the customer innovation. Click here to read this document.

Events

Event: Web&ACTION: Using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Patient Safety
Begins 1st April 2009
The Institute for Health Improvement are offering a new web-based program that will teach how to use the IHI Global Trigger Tool to help measure instances of harm often missed using traditional methods of reporting and tracking errors. Click here for more information.

Event: IMPACT – the International Health Impact Assessment Consortium
8th – 12th June – University of Liverpool, UK
IMPACT aims to improve health and reduce health inequalities locally, nationally, and internationally, through Health Impact Assessment (HIA). They are running a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment training course. Click here for more information.

Event: Medicine 2.0 Congress
17th – 18th September 2009 – Toronto, Canada
Medicine 2.0™ is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine. The conference has been organized by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, and the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD. Click here for more information.

Event: Stakeholder summit on using quality systematic reviews to inform evidence-based guidelines
4th-5th June 2009 – Baltimore, Maryland
The purpose of this event is to address the use of quality systematic reviews to inform evidence-based guidelines. Click here to find out more.

Event: MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care
The Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford is accepting applications until 15th May for the new academic year for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care. This is a part-time programme consisting of six taught modules and a dissertation. Click here for more information.

Calls for Interest

Calls for interest: TEDGlobal 2009
TED is a means of sharing stories of innovation. It stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out in 1984, as a conference bringing together from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become even broader, including business and science. The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. The site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public for free.

TED is looking for the inaugural class of TEDGlobal Fellows to participate in the TEDGlobal Conference in Oxford, UK. Following the successful Fellows program launch in Long Beach, California, they are looking for the next eclectic group of 25 innovators from around the world. TED Fellows may apply or be nominated by another individual. Follow this link to apply. To nominate a candidate, email fellows@ted.com. The program will accept applications or fellowships from 6th March 2009 to 3rd April 2009. For more information on the TED Fellows program, click here.

Call for abstracts: 1st Annual Canadian Quality Congress
19th-21st August 2009 – University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Topics to be discussed included knowledge management, quality management versus innovation, leadership and human development, performance measurement and quality audit. The deadline to submit a draft paper is 18th May 2009 and final papers are due by 1st July 2009. Click here for more information.

Calls for interest: Knowledge synthesis on patient and public involvement in guideline development
The Canadian Institute of Health Research is funding a knowledge synthesis on effective strategies for patient and public involvement in specific contexts of guideline development and implementation. The authors are looking for documents that evaluate or describe patient and public involvement programs in clinical practice guideline development and implementation. Please send references and/or documents to Sylvie Tapp.

Communication

Media reporting of health interventions: signs of improvement, but major problems persist
A Wilson, B Bonevski, A Jones, D Henry
PLoS ONE 4(3): e4831
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Statistics

Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics
G Gigerenzer, W Gaissmaier, E Kurz-Mileke, LM Schwartz, S Woloshin
Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2008, 8(2), pp53-96
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Research

Health Research Classification System (HRCS)
The Health Research Classification System (HRCS) is a bespoke system for classifying the full spectrum of biomedical and health research – from basic to applied – across all areas of health and disease. Click here to learn how to use this system, and to access it online and as a PDF document.

Health Informatics

Creating and sharing clinical decision support content with Web 2.0: issues and examples
A Wright, DW Bates, Blackford Middleton, T Hongsermeier, V Kashyap, SM Thomas, DF Sittig
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2009, 42(2), pp334-346View abstract

Collaboration

Fostering participation of general practitioners in integrated health services networks: incentives, barriers, and guidelines
M de Stampa, I Vedel, H Bergman, JL Novella, L Lapointe
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:48
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Lessons Learned

Evaluating health policy capacity: learning from international and Australian experience
DH Gleeson, DG Legge, D O’Neill
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 2009, 6:3
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Education

ICT in education: a study of public health education
S Kannan
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, 24th February 2009
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Promoting interprofessional education in health sector within the European Interprofessional Education Network
J Liaskos, A Frigas, K Antypas, D Zikos, M Diomidous, J Mantas
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2009, 78 (Suppl 1), pp43-47
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Knowledge Improvement

Knowing is not enough: executives and educators must act to address challenges and reshape healthcare
P Batalden, D Leach, G Ogrinc
Healthcare Executive, 2009, March/April, pp68-70
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Why we should use logic analysis for evaluating knowledge transfer interventions
A Brousselle, D Contandriopoulos, M Lemire
University of Montreal, Canada
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Quality Improvement

Quality of healthcare in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland: an intra-UK chartbook
K Sutherland, N Coyle
The Health Foundation – Quest or Quality and Improved Performance
This chartbook brings together publicly available data from across the four home nations of the UK and presents an intra-UK picture of quality. Click here to access the full text.

Decision Making

Information needs when making complex decision
The key objective of this project was to produce a tool that enables policy makers, strategists and communicators to be able to map the information requirements of the target audience at each stage of the journey. Click here to read more.

Nurses’ uncertainty in decision-making: a literature review
L Cranley, DM Doran, AE Tourangeau, A Kushniruk, L Nagle
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2009, 6(1), pp3-15
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Patient Safety

Closing the safety loop: evaluation of the National Patient Safety Agency’s guidance regarding wristband identification of hospital inpatients
N Sevdalis, B Norris, C Ranger, S Bothwell
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2009, 15(2), pp311-315
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Designing evidence-based patient safety interventions: the case of the UK’s National Health Service hospital wristbands
N Sevdalis, B Norris, C Ranger, S Bothwell
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2009, 15(2), pp316-322
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Harm caused by adverse events in primary care: a clinical observational study
R Wetzels, R Wolters, C van Weel, M Wensing
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2009, 15(2), pp323-327
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Evidence Based Practice

Getting to uptake: do communities of practice support the implementation of evidence-based practice?
MA Barwick, J Peters, K Boydell
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009, 18(1), pp16-29
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Health Improvement

The latest evidence to guide obesity prevention, policy, and clinical practice with overweight children and adolescents
B Mazurek Melnyk
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 2009, 6(1), pp44-48
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Events

Event: Workshop – Key guidelines for reporting health research studies - and 2nd Annual Lecture of the EQUATOR Network
9th September 2009 – The Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
This event will precede the Peer Review Congress (10th – 12th September 2009). It will feature a workshop – Key guidelines for reporting health research studies and the 2nd EQUATOR Annual Lecture by Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in Chief of The Lancet. More information and registration forms are available on the EQUATOR website.

Events

Event: Innovating for the health of all
16th – 20th November 2009 – Havana, Cuba
The Global Forum for Health Research is pleased to announce that its 2009 annual Forum will focus on policies, incentives and new approaches to strengthen both social and technological innovation for health and health equity. Click here for more information.

Calls for Interest

Call for abstracts: 6th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning
1st – 2nd October 2009- School of Information Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The deadline for the abstract submission for this event has been extended to 31st March 2009. Click here to read the call for papers.

Research

Systematic reviews of genetic association studies
GS Sagoo, J Little, JPT Higgins
PLoS Medicine, 2009, 6(3)
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Data error in text in: how to use an article about genetic association: A: background concepts
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, 301(10), pp1060-1062
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Recruitment barriers in a randomized controlled trial from the physicians’ perspective – a postal survey
A Spaar, M Frey, A Turk, W Karrer, MA Puhan
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2009, 9:14
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Knowledge Improvement

Evolution of Wenger’s concept of community of practice
LC Li, JM Grimshaw, C Nielsen, M Judd, PC Coyte, ID Graham
Implementation Science, 2009, 4:11
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Decision Making

Quality of prescribing decision support in primary care: still a work in progress
F Magrabi, EW Coiera
Medical Journal of Australia, 2009, 190(5), pp227-228
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Assessing the quality of decision support technologies using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASIi)
G Elwyn, AM O’Connor, C Bennett, RG Newcombe, M Politi
PLoS ONE, 2009, 4(3), e4705
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Patient Safety

Patient safety in emergency medicine
CS Kessler, V Tolia
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, 301(10), pp1060-1062
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Diagnostic errors – the next frontier for patient safety
DE Newman-Toker, PJ Pronovost
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, 301(10), pp1060-1062
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Service Improvement

Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting
SL Sibbald, PA Singer, R Upshur, DK Martin
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:43
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