Funding opportunities in knowledge translation: review of the AHRQ's "Translating Research into Practice" initiatives, competing funding agencies, and strategies for success.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality actively funds and conducts research to improve health care for all Americans. This article is intended to provide a brief overview of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality activities in knowledge translation and to accompany the presentation given on May 15, 2007, to the Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference, "Knowledge Translation in Emergency Medicine: Establishing a Research Agenda and Guide Map for Evidence Uptake."
Handrigan
Michael
M
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Washington, DC, USA. michael.handrigan@ahrq.hhs.gov
Slutsky
Jean
J
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality