Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Health researchers in Alberta: an exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities | Implementation Science BioMed Central Research article Open Access Health researchers in Alberta an exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities Mandi S Newton 1 Carole A Estabrooks1 Peter Norton2 Judy M Birdsell3 Adeniyi J Adewale4 and Richard Thornley5 Address Knowledge Utilization Studies Program KUSP Faculty of Nursing University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada 2Academic Head Department of Family Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 3Haskayne School of Business University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 4University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada and 5Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research AHFMR Edmonton Alberta Canada Email Mandi S Newton - Carole A Estabrooks - Peter Norton - norton@ Judy M Birdsell - birdsell@ Adeniyi J Adewale - aadewale@ Richard Thornley - Corresponding author Published 04 January 2007 Implementation Science 2007 2 1 doi l 748-5908-2-1 Received 22 August 2006 Accepted 04 January 2007 This article is available from http content 2 1 1 2007 Newton et al 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 Canadian funding agencies are no longer content to support research that solely advances scientific knowledge and key directives are now in place to promote research transfer to policy- and decision-makers. Therefore it is necessary to improve our understanding of how researchers are trained and supported to facilitate knowledge translation activities. In this study we investigated differences in health researcher characteristics and knowledge translation .
