Integrating Knowledge Translation: A Swiss Approach to Bridging Research and Health System Improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Swiss Learning Health System (SLHS), funded from 2017 to 2025, facilitated the movement of research to practice and policy, responding to national calls to enhance health services research and build research scientist capacity. This study evaluates the SLHS to understand how Learning Health System (LHS) science can provide a foundation for Knowledge Translation (KT) platforms at a national level, identifying successes, challenges, and lessons learned from capacity building and institutionalizing KT in support of evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) in health policy and practice.

Methods

We employed a mixed-methods approach from September to December 2023, using the SLHS program aims and the Knowledge-to-Action framework to inform the study's conceptualiz

SUBMITTER: Harrison Messerli N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12805882 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature