title: Strategies to translate research into practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe potential strategies that may be useful in translating research into practice and to review the findings of recent reviews of the research conducted within medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review articles, textbooks, research studies, and guidelines.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most effective way to change physician behavior is through multifaceted strategies tailored to the particular setting. Strategies with consistent effect are education outreach visits and reminders.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The generalizability of these findings to nursing is not known. However, appraising this body of knowledge in medicine should help nursing's future efforts to investigate how to best translate research into practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah College of Nursing, 10 South 2000 East Front St, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
authors.forename: Susan Larsen
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic