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. 2004 Nov;60(9):609-16.
doi: 10.1007/s00228-004-0816-2. Epub 2004 Sep 16.

Bridging the gap between therapeutic research results and physician prescribing decisions: knowledge transfer, a prerequisite to knowledge translation

Jean-Pierre Boissel  1 , Emmanuel Amsallem, Michel Cucherat, Patrice Nony, Margaret C Haugh
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Bridging the gap between therapeutic research results and physician prescribing decisions: knowledge transfer, a prerequisite to knowledge translation

Jean-Pierre Boissel et al. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2004 Nov.

Abstract

Background: A wide gap continues to exist between available therapeutic research results and physician's prescribing. Numerous explanations account for this gap, but one central reason is the difficulty in transferring comprehensive research information to practicing clinicians. This problem arises from information overload and the growing complexity of research findings. We propose a multistep process that can be used to develop systems to bridge this information/prescription gap. The steps include: comprehensively collecting and summarizing clinical trial reports, scoring and ranking these according to their level of evidence, exploring and synthesizing the data using meta-analyses, summarizing these results, representing them in an easily understandable form, and transmitting the overview findings to prescribers at the time they need them.

Discussion: This ambitious endeavor is needed to ensure that prescribers have access to pertinent research results for use in their prescription decisions. We demonstrate in this article that there are no theoretical or technical obstacles to make the proposed system workable.

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