Bridging the gap between service delivery and research.
Home care research is important. In fact, it is too important to be left exclusively to researchers even if the currently existing barriers to such investigations were to disappear. Finally, governments can have a major impact by recognizing the importance of encouraging practitioners to be investigators and by helping them improve the quality of their proposals. Paradoxically, improving the skill of practitioners to do research may also increase trust and co-operation between them and researchers.
D002170:Canada; D006302:Health Services Research; D006699:Home Care Services