CHSRF - Promising Practices in Research Use

Promising Practices in Research Use

A series that highlights healthcare organizations that have invested their time, energy and resources to improve their ability to use research, 2005–2009.

01 / Aug / 2009 How advanced access is reducing wait times in Cape Breton
01 / Jun / 2009 Making better choices
How a hospital is using evidence to implement new technologies and clinical practices more effectively
01 / May / 2009 Providing more choices for those who depend on ventilators
How a health authority is using evidence to decrease pressure on acute and long-term care.
01 / Apr / 2009 Spreading the word: How a healthcare organization is promoting evidence-based practice among frontline nurses
This health services centre is using a research journal as a tool to promote evidence-based practice among nursing staff.
01 / Mar / 2009 Retaining institutional wisdom: Using an evidence-informed approach to transfer knowledge from experienced nurses to new nursing staff
Capturing and transferring the tacit knowledge of nurses in a health and social services centre.
01 / Feb / 2009 Making Patient-Focused Evidence-Based Practices a Priority: How a rehabilitation facility created a successful strategy for clinical best practice and innovation
A rehabilitation institute launches an interprofessional best practice skill development program.
01 / Nov / 2008 Dispersing the crowds: How a health region is being guided by evidence and theory to chip away at emergency department overcrowding
This health region takes an evidence-based approach to addressing overcrowding in emergency departments.
01 / Apr / 2008 Connected care: How a health science centre is using evidence to improve patient transitions from primary to secondary care
A health services centre is developing pathways to strengthen the ability of family physicians to manage their patients and improve the primacy-secondary care transition.
01 / Mar / 2008 Coping with structural change: How a regional health authority is helping local public health managers take on new responsibilities
A health region has used evidence to develop a program to build key competencies among managers with new responsibilities for public health management.
01 / Feb / 2008 Buying time and getting a bonus: How a regional health organization is tackling a barrier to building research use capacity and discovering additional benefits
A division within a health region is granting employees the time they need to engage in research.

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

Promising Practices in Research Use