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"I was paying too much attention to the literature."

The real world isnt always waiting for the evidence; sometimes things just change.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Implementation researchers wanted for new science

Might a total immersion experience" be the way to launch the emerging science of implementation research into mainstream academic consciousness?
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Have we been forgetting to learn from what we do?

Drug company reps may be closer to the pulse of research into behavioral change than many a health care manager.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Take it from "the Michael" they want to deliver

Jim Yong Kim extols the virtues of involving Harvard strategy guru Michael Porter in helping him understand health care delivery systems.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Cash can be a catalyst for big change

Harvard Medical School's Jim Yong Kim encourages delegates to think about the cost of heath and public services and to ask themselves whether that money was being spent optimally.
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Might Dubyas bacon be saved by the Three Ones?

"At least one presenter ended their talk with a slide showing Obama with a speech bubble declaring 'Yes, we can!', to the delight of delegates."
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

Introducing a new science of the third D (for Delivery)

"Getting lots of people to do good things well Delivery is the new Holy Grail of health-care"
Notes from the Second Annual US National Institutes of Health conference Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building research capacity to bridge the gap from science to service.

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When a black diamond represents a lifeline

What's in a logo? Usually not very much - but in the case of The Cochrane Collaboration's a whole moral argument. A parting shot from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.

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Just too random – or perhaps not random enough

It was bound to happen: go to a conference on randomized controlled trials and sooner or later someone will go putting the randomized controlled trial – on trial. Nick reports from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.

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Putting trials to the Consort quality test

It’s recognized that randomized controlled trials tend to find smaller effects than other evaluation methods. Now there’s the intriguing suggestion that the reporting of methodological quality in RCTs has an impact on trial outcomes. Nick reports from the York University conference Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences: Methods and Synthesis.

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