Ontario KTE Community of Practice meeting
Date: Monday November 8, 2010
Time 4:30 to 6:30
Place: Institute for Work & Health
481 University Ave, Suite 800, Toronto (St Patrick Subway stop)
Speaker: Dwayne Van Eerd, Associate Scientist, IWH
Topic: Systematic Review on Tools to Apply in the Assessment of KTE
REGISTER ONLINE: systematicreview.eventbrite.com
A group of twelve researchers and KT practitioners have been reviewing
the literature on the evaluation of knowledge translation and exchange.
With funding from CIHR, they are trying to answer the review question:
Are there reliable, valid and/or useful tools to apply in the assessment
of knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) implementation and its impact?
They started with the broadest inclusion of research into knowledge
transfer, knowledge mobilization, diffusion of innovation, etc. The
initial search came up with over 13,000 articles from a very broad
search in the medical, agricultural, educational, business and other
literatures. They have been meeting every two weeks for nearly a year
completing the following systematic review steps: Develop Question,
Conduct Literature Search, Identify Relevant Documents, Quality
Appraisal, Data Extraction, Evidence Synthesis.
They are presently engaged in the data extraction on 60 quantitative, 10
qualitative, and 3 mixed methods studies. The team is led by Dwayne Van
Eerd at the Institute for Work & Health. He will discuss with us both
the process of conducting a systematic review, but also what the team
has found so far.