Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Knowledge transfer & exchange through social networks: building foundations for a community of practice within tobacco control | BioMed Central Implementation Science Research article Open Access Knowledge transfer exchange through social networks building foundations for a community of practice within tobacco control Cameron D Norman 1 and Tim Huerta2 Address Assistant Professor Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto ON Canada and 2Research Scientist Provincial Health Services Agency and the British Columbia Child and Family Research Institute Vancouver BC Canada Research Assistant Professor in Health Organizational Management Rawls College of Business Texas Tech University Lubbock TX USA Email Cameron D Norman - Tim Huerta - thuerta@ Corresponding author Published 25 September 2006 Received 23 April 2006 Implementation Science 2006 1 20 doi 1748-5908-1-20 Accepted 25 September 2006 This article is available from http content 1 1 20 2006 Norman and Huerta licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Health services and population health innovations advance when knowledge transfer and exchange KTE occurs among researchers practitioners policy-makers and consumers using high-quality evidence. However few KTE models have been evaluated in practice. Communities of practice CoP - voluntary self-organizing and focused groups of individuals and organizations - may provide one option. This paper outlines an approach to lay the foundation for a CoP within the area of Web-assisted tobacco interventions WATI . The objectives of the study were to provide a data-driven foundation to inform decisions about organizing a CoP within the geographically diverse multi-disciplinary WATI group using evaluation and social network
