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Table 2 Differences in clinical and community-based settings

From: Community-based knowledge translation: unexplored opportunities

 

Clinical

Community

Settings

Single practitioner or organization

Multi-organization involvement

  

Clear value orientation

Evidence

Curative

Prevention and health promotion

 

Clear focus on randomized controlled trials as best 'evidence'

Broad consideration of what is 'evidence'

Outcomes

Individual level interventions

Individual, community and population level interventions

 

Individual level outcomes

Individual, community and population level outcomes within complex systems

  

Advocacy outcomes

  1. Source: Mitton C, Adair CE, McKenzie E, Patten SB, Perry BW: Knowledge transfer and exchange: Review and synthesis of the literature. The Milbank Quarterly 2007, 85(4): 729-768. Green LW: From Research to 'Best Practices' in Other Settings and Populations [*]. Am J Health Behav 2001, 25(3):165-178. (pg. 229). Wandersman A: Community Science: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice with Community Centered Models. Am J of Comm Pys 2003, 31(3-4):227-242.