Toward Relational Practices for Enabling Knowledge-to-Action in Health Systems: The Example of Deliberative Dialogue.
Despite widespread emphasis on evidence-informed decision making in health care, there remain persistent challenges in actualizing this ideal. An integrated strategy to knowledge translation can help bridge perspectives across sectors, communities, and organizations, and bridge the "knowledge-to-action" gap. One such strategy is a deliberative dialogue method. Deliberative dialogue has unique potential to mobilize partnered changes and improvements across health care, and we believe, is most salient when enacted relationally through practices of relational engagement and relational accountability. Drawing from our own scholarship, we reflect on how these practices can help establish both processes and outcomes that can affect meaningful change.
Professional Practice Office, Interior Health, and Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada (Ms Plamondon); and School of Nursing, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada (Dr Caxaj).
Katrina
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Plamondon
Susana
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Caxaj
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D003142:Communication; D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic