title: Advancing coordinated care in four provincial healthcare systems: evaluating a knowledge-exchange intervention.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This research project created and evaluated a knowledge-exchange intervention designed to facilitate an increase in organizational readiness for implementing coordinated stroke care in four primarily rural provincial healthcare systems.
  
  
  METHODS
  Knowledge brokers were linked to networks within, across and outside the provinces to support, inform and disseminate best practice recommendations for coordinated stroke care within the provincial healthcare systems.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The intervention increased awareness and dissemination of recommendations, which stimulated the implementation of coordinated stroke care. Similar knowledge-exchange interventions might work in other healthcare jurisdictions with similar demographics, to promote evidence-informed improvements in healthcare.
authors.affiliation: Research Associate, Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, Associate Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
authors.forename: Grace
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Warner
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: Victoria
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Phillips