ContextDespite wide promulgation, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect on
changing physician behavior. Little is known about the process and factors involved in …

Background Printed educational materials are widely used dissemination strategies to
improve the quality of healthcare professionals' practice and patient health outcomes …

In this paper we revisit and add elements to our earlier conceptual framework on shared
treatment decision-making within the context of different decision-making approaches in the …

The growth in publications is particularly spectacular in the category of the most rigorous
clinical evaluations, randomized controlled clinical trials. Such trials have long been …

Although interest in clinical guidelines has never been greater, uncertainty persists about
whether they are effective. The debate has been hampered by the lack of a rigorous …

This document presents guidelines for developing institutional programs to enhance
antimicrobial stewardship, an activity that includes appropriate selection, dosing, route, and …

Despite the considerable amount of money spent on clinical research relatively little
attention has been paid to ensuring that the findings of research are implemented in routine …

Applied research organizations invest a great deal of time, and research funders invest a
great deal of money generating and (one hopes) transferring research knowledge that could …

Medicine has traditionally focused on relieving patient symptoms. However, in developed
countries, maintaining good health increasingly involves management of such problems as …

Few social science theories have a history of conceptual and empirical study as long as
does the diffusion of innovations. The robustness of this theory derives from the many …