https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6761-7548
-
Views
-
Cite
Cite
Krystina B Lewis, Nicola Straiton, Sandra B Lauck, Collaborative research approaches for the creation and translation of cardiovascular nursing knowledge, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 23, Issue 8, November 2024, Pages e183–e184, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae111
Close - Share Icon Share
Extract
This invited commentary refers to ‘Optimizing support before and after cardiac resynchronization therapy implantation in co-creation with patients with heart failure, informal caregivers, and healthcare professionals’, by H. Westland et al., https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvae094.
Introduction
Mobilizing research findings into clinical practice is crucial to improving patient lives, although on its own, great research is not enough. Planned and deliberate efforts are required to translate cardiovascular research knowledge into practice. Failure to do so risks perpetuating the current, lengthy lag of 9–17 years between what we know is best care and its use in practice and policy.1
Doing research that integrates the principles of knowledge translation to the entire research process—from problem identification to dissemination—is widely believed to be one of the best ways to generate relevant and usable findings.2 This means partnering with people who can use the knowledge produced through the research lifecycle in the real world, leading to informed, evidence-based healthcare practice and policy decisions.3 Patients, clinicians, whole communities, organizations, policymakers, and health systems leaders, often referred to as knowledge users, intimately understand the context in which the knowledge is being generated and hence well suited to propose solutions to address locally identified needs. This intimate understanding of context leads to the development of relevant research questions about issues relevant to the people, study designs, data collection materials and tool development, and selection of outcome measures with knowledge users’ needs and priorities at the forefront, with widened networks for dissemination, all of which are key for timely, real-world impact. In many countries, funding agencies are increasingly supporting—some even mandating—knowledge users’ involvement to promote and support collaborative research approaches for the generation and translation of knowledge.
Comments