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Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact

Publication typeScientific publication
SOURCE: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
RegionAmericas

Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact

The challenges associated with translating health services and policy research evidence into practice are many and long-standing. Indeed, those challenges have themselves spawned new areas of research, including knowledge translation and implementation science. These sub-disciplines have increase our understanding of the critical success factors associated with the uptake of research evidence into (system) practice. In that regard, building on Canada´s recent Strategy for Patient Oriented Research would seem to offer consideravle promise. The “modest” proposals offered by Thakkar and Sulivan seem less likely to bear fruit. 

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