Abstract
Academic research is having little influence on the commissioning and design of health care services, and stakeholders (including patients) are currently not consulted sufficiently for research to be genuinely informed by their experiences. This systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of knowledge sharing techniques and mechanisms on knowledge sharing between researchers and stakeholders in NIHR funded health research. Electronic database searches and manual searches of reference lists of included studies were conducted to identify articles that reported healthcare knowledge sharing between academics or researchers and non-academic stakeholders (e.g., clinicians, health service managers, policy makers, hospital managers or patients/public contributors) through any medium (e.g., email, telephone). 8,890 records were identified. Following de-duplication and independent screening, 19 articles were included. Four articles were co-production studies, 3 reports described priority setting partnerships, 5 studies reported using intermediaries, 5 studies used collaborative or consultative events and 2 articles reported systematic reviews of interventions. Quality appraisal, data extraction and synthesis is ongoing.
Aim
To assess the effectiveness of knowledge sharing techniques and mechanisms on knowledge sharing between researchers and stakeholders in NIHR funded health research.
Project Lead
Project Collaborators
Dr Tracey Stone
Dr Lindsay Bearne
Candace Imison