Knowledge Brokering in Large Communicative Health Care Systems: Exploring the Feasibility of Engaging Clinical End Users to Support the Dissemination of New Clinical Tools.
Purpose: Barriers to moving evidence into clinical practice have been widely reported in the literature. Engaging clinicians as knowledge brokers (KBs) has been proposed to help address these barriers; however, research investigating the feasibility of the KB strategy in communication sciences and d...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 846 - 864 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jun2026
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