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Closing the research-practice gap in emergency services organisations

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posted on 2023-05-20, 17:57 authored by Christine Owen, Krusel, N, Bethune, L
The National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) was established in 2000 by the Australian government to improve health care by closing evidence-practice gaps. Improving emergency care through use of evidence is a priority area of work for NICS. This article describes the NICS Emergency Care Program and the current application of a ‘‘Community of Practice’’ to support emergency clinicians to implement best practices research. This approach combines aspects of evidence implementation science, quality improvement techniques, and knowledge management within a social network model to provide a mechanism for rapid sharing of explicit and tacit knowledge. Through the Community of Practice, the clinical community guides the priorities for the Emergency Care Program and is actively engaged in the development and implementation of initiatives.

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Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC

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Publication title

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies

Volume

24

Pagination

103-114

ISSN

1174-4707

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Massey University * School of Psychology

Place of publication

New Zealand

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Copyright the authors 2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Technological and organisational innovation

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