Knowledge translation is everybody's business
Watson, Margaret C. (2021) Knowledge translation is everybody's business. Journal of Controlled Release, 330. pp. 461-462. ISSN 0168-3659 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.12.043)
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Abstract
Successful application of research outcomes into routine healthcare practice rarely occurs as an immediate result of their publication [1]. A much-cited example is the 40-year delay in the British Navy’s adoption of vitamin C for the prevention of scurvy, despite substantial evidence of benefit from the first ever controlled trial conducted by James Lind in the 1770s [2]. The delayed adoption of research outcomes is often referred to as the evidence-practice gap [3]. Whilst science has moved on in the 200+years since Lind’s study, the gap still persists, contributing to inefficient use of resources and avoidable mortality and morbidity. The more recent 10-year delay in the adoption of prenatal corticosteroids to prevent preterm birth despite unequivocal but under- collated evidence, is estimated to have cost the lives of tens of thousands of babies [4]. Similar ‘gaps’ have been shown with the translation of basic science results into clinical practice [5,6].
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Watson, Margaret C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8198-9273;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 75412 Dates: DateEvent10 February 2021Published25 December 2020Published Online23 December 2020AcceptedSubjects: Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medica Department: Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 15 Feb 2021 15:12 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 10:54 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75412