Organizational knowledge translation strategies for allied health professionals in traumatology settings: realist review protocol

Area of Science:

• Health Services Research
• Knowledge Translation
• Allied Health Professions

Background:

• Knowledge translation (KT) is crucial for improving health service quality.
• Individual KT strategies show moderate effectiveness (≤10% practice change).
• Organizational contexts offer a promising avenue for enhancing evidence-based practice implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

• To identify the conditions under which organizational KT strategies are effective or ineffective.
• To understand why and how these strategies impact allied health professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in traumatology.
• To guide decision-makers in selecting optimal organizational KT strategies.

Main Methods:

• Realist review protocol with four iterative steps: theory formulation, evidence search, data synthesis, and recommendations.
• Searched multiple electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, CPCI-Science) for studies from January 1990 to October 2020.
• Included studies on organizational KT strategies in trauma settings with objective measures of change; two reviewers screened and extracted data.

Main Results:

• This section is to be filled after the review is conducted and results are available.
• The review aims to refine or refute context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configurations.
• New CMO configurations will be identified based on extracted data.

Conclusions:

• This systematic review will provide evidence-based guidance for decision-makers and researchers.
• It will facilitate the selection of effective organizational strategies for implementing evidence-based practices.
• The findings will contribute to optimizing health service quality through improved KT.