Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 319-327, June 2008

Knowledge integration: Conceptualizing communications in cancer control systems☆

  • Allan Best

      Affiliations

    • Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, 718, 828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1L8
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 604 875 4111x6177; fax: +1 604 875 5179.
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  • Robert A. Hiatt

      Affiliations

    • University of California, San Francisco, United States
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  • Cameron D. Norman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Room 586, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada. Tel.: +1 416 978 1242; fax: +1 416 978 2087.
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  • on behalf of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Joint Working Group on Translational Research and Knowledge Integration of the Advisory Committee for Research and the Joint Advisory Committee for Cancer Control

Received 12 February 2008; received in revised form 18 February 2008; accepted 19 February 2008.

Abstract 

Objective

This paper was prepared by the National Cancer Institute of Canada (NCIC) Working Group on Translational Research and Knowledge Transfer. The goal was to nurture common ground upon which to build a platform for translating what we know about cancer into what we do in practice and policy.

Methods

Methods included expert panels, literature review, and concept mapping, to develop a framework that built on earlier cancer control conceptualizations of communications that have guided researchers and end users.

Results

The concept of ‘knowledge integration’ is used to describe the resulting refinement and the nature of evidence necessary for decision-making to at the systems level. Current evidence for knowledge integration in cancer control is presented across the levels of individual, organizational and systems level interventions and across basic, clinical and population science knowledge bases.

Conclusion

A systems-oriented approach to integrating evidence into action assists organizations to conduct research and policy and practice.

Practice implications

Practitioners can use this framework to understand the challenges of implementing and evaluating cancer control strategies.

Keywords: Prevention, Behavioral Prevention Research, Dissemination, Implementation, Translational research, Cancer control

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☆ Funding support for portions of this work was provided by the National Cancer Institute of Canada and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute.

PII: S0738-3991(08)00124-9

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2008.02.013

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 71, Issue 3 , Pages 319-327, June 2008

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