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7. Organisations involved in getting research into practice
There are many organisations involved in getting research findings into
practice. It will be sufficient to identify two of the main players in this
area:
- the Cochrane Collaboration Collaborative Review Group on Effective
Practice and Organisation and Delivery of Care (EPOC). This international
network has already produced major systematic reviews covering some of the
interventions discussed above. The findings of these have been referred to
above where available but readers should be aware that a number of pertinent
reviews are at the protocol stage and will therefore become available in the
next couple of years.
- NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, York, United Kingdom. This
Centre has conducted several systematic reviews into getting research into
practice. An early offering was an Effective Health Care Bulletin on
Implementing Clinical Guidelines. More recently they have produced an
Effective Health Care Bulletin entitled Getting Research Into Practice.
They have also researched the effect of providing "Informed Choice" leaflets to
patients in topics relating to Pregnancy and Childbirth.
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