Developing and selecting interventions for translating knowledge to action
Canadian Medical Association JournalPublished 21 December 2009Open access
Michel Wensing, Maurice Bosch, R.P.T.M. Grol
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This article provides an approach to selecting interventions for knowledge and the barriers to and facilitators of use of knowledge have been identified.
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