Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

Table of Contents - September 2012 - Volume 21, Issue 03  

Editorials

Translating knowledge to practice: optimizing the use of guidelines

A. R. Gagliardia1 c1

a1 Minimal Risk, Research Ethics Board, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guidelines support health care decision-making but continue to be underused, therefore more research is needed on how they can be better developed and implemented. The same is true of mental health care, for which there is recent growing interest in improving care delivery and associated outcomes by optimizing the use of mental health care guidelines. This editorial describes the key concepts from accumulated research on guideline implementation to suggest a number of avenues for research on implementation of mental health care guidelines.

(Online publication May 22 2012)

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c1 Address for correspondence: Professor Anna R. Gagliardi, Toronto General Research Institute, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G2C4, Canada. (Email: anna.gagliardi@uhnresearch.ca)