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Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada
BACKGROUND: Health systems worldwide struggle to identify, adopt, and implement in a timely and system-wide manner the best—evidence-informed—policy-level practices. Yet, there is still only limited evidence about individual and institutional best practices for fostering the use of scientific eviden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28931436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0642-4 |
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author | Contandriopoulos, Damien Benoît, François Bryant-Lukosius, Denise Carrier, Annie Carter, Nancy Deber, Raisa Duhoux, Arnaud Greenhalgh, Trisha Larouche, Catherine Leclerc, Bernard-Simon Levy, Adrian Martin-Misener, Ruth Maximova, Katerina McGrail, Kimberlyn Nykiforuk, Candace Roos, Noralou Schwartz, Robert Valente, Thomas W. Wong, Sabrina Lindquist, Evert Pullen, Carolyn Lardeux, Anne Perroux, Melanie |
author_facet | Contandriopoulos, Damien Benoît, François Bryant-Lukosius, Denise Carrier, Annie Carter, Nancy Deber, Raisa Duhoux, Arnaud Greenhalgh, Trisha Larouche, Catherine Leclerc, Bernard-Simon Levy, Adrian Martin-Misener, Ruth Maximova, Katerina McGrail, Kimberlyn Nykiforuk, Candace Roos, Noralou Schwartz, Robert Valente, Thomas W. Wong, Sabrina Lindquist, Evert Pullen, Carolyn Lardeux, Anne Perroux, Melanie |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health systems worldwide struggle to identify, adopt, and implement in a timely and system-wide manner the best—evidence-informed—policy-level practices. Yet, there is still only limited evidence about individual and institutional best practices for fostering the use of scientific evidence in policy-making processes The present project is the first national-level attempt to (1) map and structurally analyze—quantitatively—health-relevant policy-making networks that connect evidence production, synthesis, interpretation, and use; (2) qualitatively investigate the interaction patterns of a subsample of actors with high centrality metrics within these networks to develop an in-depth understanding of evidence circulation processes; and (3) combine these findings in order to assess a policy network’s “absorptive capacity” regarding scientific evidence and integrate them into a conceptually sound and empirically grounded framework. METHODS: The project is divided into two research components. The first component is based on quantitative analysis of ties (relationships) that link nodes (participants) in a network. Network data will be collected through a multi-step snowball sampling strategy. Data will be analyzed structurally using social network mapping and analysis methods. The second component is based on qualitative interviews with a subsample of the Web survey participants having central, bridging, or atypical positions in the network. Interviews will focus on the process through which evidence circulates and enters practice. Results from both components will then be integrated through an assessment of the network’s and subnetwork’s effectiveness in identifying, capturing, interpreting, sharing, reframing, and recodifying scientific evidence in policy-making processes. DISCUSSION: Knowledge developed from this project has the potential both to strengthen the scientific understanding of how policy-level knowledge transfer and exchange functions and to provide significantly improved advice on how to ensure evidence plays a more prominent role in public policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-56076032017-10-11 Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada Contandriopoulos, Damien Benoît, François Bryant-Lukosius, Denise Carrier, Annie Carter, Nancy Deber, Raisa Duhoux, Arnaud Greenhalgh, Trisha Larouche, Catherine Leclerc, Bernard-Simon Levy, Adrian Martin-Misener, Ruth Maximova, Katerina McGrail, Kimberlyn Nykiforuk, Candace Roos, Noralou Schwartz, Robert Valente, Thomas W. Wong, Sabrina Lindquist, Evert Pullen, Carolyn Lardeux, Anne Perroux, Melanie Implement Sci Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Health systems worldwide struggle to identify, adopt, and implement in a timely and system-wide manner the best—evidence-informed—policy-level practices. Yet, there is still only limited evidence about individual and institutional best practices for fostering the use of scientific evidence in policy-making processes The present project is the first national-level attempt to (1) map and structurally analyze—quantitatively—health-relevant policy-making networks that connect evidence production, synthesis, interpretation, and use; (2) qualitatively investigate the interaction patterns of a subsample of actors with high centrality metrics within these networks to develop an in-depth understanding of evidence circulation processes; and (3) combine these findings in order to assess a policy network’s “absorptive capacity” regarding scientific evidence and integrate them into a conceptually sound and empirically grounded framework. METHODS: The project is divided into two research components. The first component is based on quantitative analysis of ties (relationships) that link nodes (participants) in a network. Network data will be collected through a multi-step snowball sampling strategy. Data will be analyzed structurally using social network mapping and analysis methods. The second component is based on qualitative interviews with a subsample of the Web survey participants having central, bridging, or atypical positions in the network. Interviews will focus on the process through which evidence circulates and enters practice. Results from both components will then be integrated through an assessment of the network’s and subnetwork’s effectiveness in identifying, capturing, interpreting, sharing, reframing, and recodifying scientific evidence in policy-making processes. DISCUSSION: Knowledge developed from this project has the potential both to strengthen the scientific understanding of how policy-level knowledge transfer and exchange functions and to provide significantly improved advice on how to ensure evidence plays a more prominent role in public policies. BioMed Central 2017-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5607603/ /pubmed/28931436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0642-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Contandriopoulos, Damien Benoît, François Bryant-Lukosius, Denise Carrier, Annie Carter, Nancy Deber, Raisa Duhoux, Arnaud Greenhalgh, Trisha Larouche, Catherine Leclerc, Bernard-Simon Levy, Adrian Martin-Misener, Ruth Maximova, Katerina McGrail, Kimberlyn Nykiforuk, Candace Roos, Noralou Schwartz, Robert Valente, Thomas W. Wong, Sabrina Lindquist, Evert Pullen, Carolyn Lardeux, Anne Perroux, Melanie Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title | Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title_full | Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title_fullStr | Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title_short | Structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in Canada |
title_sort | structural analysis of health-relevant policy-making information exchange networks in canada |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607603/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28931436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0642-4 |
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