Healthcare Knowledge Translation

Important research findings often have limited effect because they are too complex and jargon-riddled to cut through today’s information clutter. Translating complex findings into understandable information patients, clinicians, and other healthcare stakeholders can use is a core AIR skill. For example, AIR manages the Translation Center for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and prepares clear, comprehensible summaries of research findings to aid patient and clinician decisions.

Similarly, AIR, through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, supports the independent U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in making evidence-based clinical recommendations for preventive services more transparent to the public, patients, clinicians, and policymakers. Since 2010, AIR has reviewed and analyzed over 10,000 public comments on the USPSTF’s draft research plans, systematic evidence reviews, and recommendation statements on a wide range of services, such as breast cancer screening, HIV PrEP, and aspirin use to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Latest Work

Project

Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Bundle for American Indians

Indigenous people throughout North America are at greater risk for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and poor TBI-related outcomes based on disparities in health, connections to poverty, violence, and systemic racism. An AIR research team is working in partnership with the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, an Advisory Council of TBI stakeholders, and technical experts in TBI to develop a resource bundle for American Indians. These groups will collaborate to translate information from resources that the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center has developed working with other NIDILRR-funded researchers.
12 Sep 2017
Guide

Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) Fact Sheets

The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center, produces consumer-oriented fact sheets on topics related to spinal cord injury (SCI), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and burn injury. The fact sheets are developed in collaboration with the SCI, TBI, and Burn Model Systems programs. These resources undergo expert and consumer reviews to ensure they are updated, evidence-based, and consumer-friendly.
7 Jul 2017
Brief

Knowledge Translation for Employment Research Center (KTER) Research Briefs

The Knowledge Translation for Employment Research Center (KTER) is funded to test, in vocational rehabilitation agency settings, a knowledge broker model in which individuals are positioned to bridge the worlds of research and practice. These briefs summarize focus group findings from vocational rehabilitation staff and young adults with disabilities, focusing on transition-aged youth and adults with autism spectrum disorder.
24 Oct 2016 to 28 Oct 2016
| 10:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Event

KTDRR Conference 2016: Communication Tools for Moving Research to Practice

The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR)'s 2016 online conference is designed for researchers and others to learn about current and innovative communication tools, including social media, in order to increase the use of evidence-based research findings though knowledge translation (KT) activities. Researchers funded by NIDILRR use KT strategies to share their research with a variety of audiences in order to create a change in awareness, behavior, or action on the part of the identified audience.
Project

PCOR Translation Center

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Translation Center supports PCORI's commitment to making research findings comprehensible and useful to patients, clinicians, and others in making healthcare decisions. Drawing on AIR’s expertise in health communications, health literacy, dissemination, medicine, health services, public health, health disparities, and methods for comparative effectiveness research, the Center prepares summaries of peer-reviewed PCORI study findings.
26 Oct 2015 to 30 Oct 2015
| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event

Knowledge Translation Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to Research Use

Researchers can use knowledge translation activities to promote the use of rigorous study findings. The goal of knowledge translation is for targeted audiences to learn how to apply relevant research evidence to their lives. When people become more aware and knowledgeable about research, they can change their own behavior—or the policies and practices of their organizations—in ways that ground action in scientific evidence. Speakers at this conference will help attendees identify barriers to research application and strategies to overcome them.
9 Feb 2015
Spotlight

Webinar Series: Evidence-Based Practice and Vocational Rehabilitation

The Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR) is collaborating with the American Institutes for Research to support webcasts and a Community of Practice that examine issues and challenges around evidence-based practice and vocational rehabilitation (VR). To date there are six archived Webinars:
30 May 2014
Video

Employment After Burn Injury

Consequences of major burn injuries often include losing the ability to engage in basic life functions such as work or employment.

Project

Support of Transparency Efforts by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

The mission of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine, is to make evidence-based recommendations on clinical preventive services and health promotion. Since 2010, AIR has collaborated with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which supports the USPSTF, on the Transparency Project to facilitate task force efforts to incorporate public feedback and ensure transparency.
Project

Translating Comparative Effectiveness Reports for Consumers and Clinicians

For nearly a decade, AIR supported the John M. Eisenberg Center for Clinical Decisions and Communications Science at the Baylor College of Medicine in turning comparative effectiveness research results into practical information for decision making. Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Eisenberg Center translated and disseminated research findings for use by consumers, healthcare professionals, and policymakers.