Yearly Archives: 2013

Has the #CKF13 changed my life?

Wow.  What a week!  And to think: when I left London I had no plans beyond attending the Forum… The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum this week brought together 142 knowledge mobilisation professionals from 12 nations to expand the growing global

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Writing: Paper published! JHSRP

Worth a second look in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. Published online ahead of print 25 April 2013 Quality improvement in health care: Is it mustard or ketchup? by Cathy Howe Introduction In this article, Malcolm Gladwell

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Writing: Paper published!

Short Report published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on a project undertaken in collaboration with the NIHR CLAHRC for Northwest London Acceptability and necessity of HIV and other blood-borne virus testing in a psychiatric setting Camilla Sanger, Janine Hayward, Gira Patel, Karen

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Writing: Abstract accepted :-)

Abstracts accepted for oral presentation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobiliszation Forum in June 2013 “Applying a quality improvement approach to mobilising knowledge in COPD: Developing and implementing a care bundle” C Howe, C Doyle, L Lennox, J Reed, D Bell

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‘Reading’: What we know about Quality & Safety in healthcare

In this audio-slideshow (hence tongue in cheek ‘reading’) Mary Dixon-Woods provides an overview of quality and safety issues and literature using Hood’s Cypbernetic Model as a basis for a regulatory system in healthcare…  30 mins usefully spent via the Health

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Talking: CLAHRC NWL 2013 Fellows Induction

Had a brilliant day today with the new group of CLAHRC NWL fellows. There are people who class as service users (or whatever your preferred term is) as well as GPs, a midwife, managers, a physio and others – a

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Writing: Accepted paper

Great news and congratulations to Camilla and Janine and the team who’ve worked so hard on this project. Paper: Sanger, C., Hayward, J., Patel, G., Phekoo, K., Poots, A., Howe, C., Jones, O.B., Green, J. (in press) “Acceptability and necessity

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Reading: Nature of knowledge and knowing: Most interesting paper

Crilly et al chose this as the most interesting paper in this section… Interesting paper – methodological debate (p.68) Abstract from Tranfield, Denyer & Smart (2003) Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review Abstract:

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Reading: Nature of knowledge and knowing: Most cited paper

(Health warning: this is from a report published in 2010 and citation counts may have changed) Most cited paper – contribution to theory (p.67) Abstract from Haridimon Tsoukas, E. Vladimirou (2001) Abstract: Organizational knowledge is much talked about but little

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Reading: Why do questions about knowledge matter?

How we think about knowledge affects how we study things and how we act.  And the world around us is changing.  We need to understand how to change with it… “…increasing digitization of social and economic life, the widespread use

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