“Since the COVID-19 coronavirus emerged in December 2019, health care providers have been searching for digital health technology to treat patients. Fortunately, rapid innovation has produced many new insights and tools to fight the pandemic…”
“This search illustrates how for high-stakes medical conditions such as COVID-19, research findings and evidence-based tools based on them can move into the mainstream rapidly. For less-urgent conditions, however, bridging gaps between clinical need and available solutions usually takes much longer – up to 17 years in some cases.”
“Think about that: Many evidence-based treatment advances sit unused so long, if they were people they would be old enough to drive and almost old enough to vote and serve in the U.S. military. How do such delays help our patients?”
“This decades-spanning gap between knowledge introduction and implementation exists because researchers often omit the crucial act of knowledge translation. Also called KT, knowledge translation involves concrete steps designed to address two crucial questions: How do overworked medical personnel keep themselves updated? And how do researchers get their findings to end users who can apply them to improve health outcomes?” Read the full article here.
Source: Knowledge Translation in the Time of Coronavirus – By Robert Ciulla, Ph.D., July 20, 2020. DVIDS.
