title: Collaboration and Co-Production of Knowledge in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges.
abstract: Over time there has been a shift, at least in the rhetoric, from a pipeline conceptualisation of knowledge implementation, to one that recognises the potential of more collaboration, co-productive approaches to knowledge production and use. In this editorial, which is grounded in our research and collective experience, we highlight both the potential and challenge with collaboration and co-production. This includes issues about stakeholder engagement, governance arrangements, and capacity and capability for working in a co-productive way. Finally, we reflect on the fact that this approach is not a panacea, but is accompanied by some philosophical and practical challenges.
authors.affiliation: School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rycroft-Malone
authors.affiliation: School of Healthcare Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
authors.forename: Christopher R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Burton
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.|Centre for Nursing Research Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Tracey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bucknall
authors.affiliation: School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine & Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.|School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Ian D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.|Centre for Nursing Research Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Alison M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hutchinson
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stacey
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Co-Production; Collaboration; Knowledge; Knowledge Translation (KT)