International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Marie-Pierre Gagnon 1, 2, 3
Randa Attieh 1, 4
Sandra Dunn 5
Gonzalo Grandes 6
Paola Bully 6
Carole A. Estabrooks 7
France Légaré 2, 8
Geneviève Roch 9, 2, 10
Mathieu Ouimet 11
1 Faculty of Nursing, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
2 Primary Health and Social Care Research Center, Quebec City, QC, Canada
3 Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Centre, Quebec City, QC, Canada
4 CRED Research Centre – École Supérieure des Affaires, Beirut, Lebanon
5 CHEO Research Institute, Centre for Practice Changing Research Building, Ottawa, ON, Canada
6 Primary Care Research Unit of Bizkaia – Osakidetza, Basque Health Service, Bilbao, Spain
7 Faculty of Nursing and School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
8 Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
9 Faculty of Nursing, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
10 Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, CHU de Québec-Université Laval Research Centre, Quebec City, QC, Canada
11 Department of Political Sciences, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
10.15171/ijhpm.2019.03
Keywords
Organizational Readiness
Instrument
Knowledge Translation
Implementation
Subjects

We are grateful to Nuño-Solinís1 and Puchalski Ritchie and Straus2 for their commentaries on our article that presents the organizational  readiness for knowledge translation (OR4KT), an instrument measuring healthcare organizations’ readiness to implement evidence-informed knowledge across a variety of services.3... (Read more...)

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  2. Puchalski Ritchie LM, Straus SE. Assessing organizational readiness for change: Comment on "Development and content validation of a transcultural instrument to assess organizational readiness for knowledge translation in healthcare organizations: the OR4KT." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2019;8(1):55-57. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.101
  3. Gagnon MP, Attieh R, Dunn S, et al. Development and Content Validation of a Transcultural Instrument to Assess Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation in Healthcare Organizations: The OR4KT. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(9):791-797. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.17
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 8, Issue 5
May 2019
Pages 315-316

  • Received Date 06 January 2019
  • Revised Date 15 January 2019
  • Accepted Date 16 January 2019
  • First Published Date 01 May 2019
  • Published Date 01 May 2019