Sustaining Knowledge Translation Practices: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The health policy and systems research literature increasingly observes that knowledge translation (KT) practices are difficult to sustain. An important issue is that it remains unclear what sustainability of KT practices means and how it can be improved. The aim of this study was thus to identify and explain those processes, activities, and efforts in the literature that facilitate the sustaining of KT practices in health policy-making processes.

Methods

We used a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) to review the health policy and systems research and Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature. The STS literature was included as to enrich the review with constructivist social scientific perspectives on sustainability and KT. The CIS methodology allowed for

SUBMITTER: Borst RAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature