Completing the cycle of scholarship of practice: a model for dissemination and utilization of evidence-based interventions.
SUMMARY The scholarship of practice stresses that knowledge should arise out of a dialogue and collaboration between scholars and practitioners. Bringing evidence back to practice completes the scholarship of practice cycle. This article describes a strategic approach to the process of knowledge dissemination and utilization and how that approach was used to increase knowledge and utilization of the Matter of Balance fear of falling intervention among occupational therapy practitioners. To illustrate how the approach supported clinicians' efforts to engage in evidence-based practice, the paper features a description of actions taken by a Maine-based health care system to successfully integrate Matter of Balance into its programming. Recommendations to policy makers, researchers and clinicians based on the authors' experiences with approach are presented.
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1919 West Taylor Street, MC 811, Chicago, IL, 60612 epeterso@uic.edu.
Elizabeth Walker
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Peterson
Elaine
E
McMahon
Marianne
M
Farkas
Jonathan
J
Howland