Rhonda Cockerill

TL;DR: A comprehensive framework of research dissemination and utilization that is useful for both health policy and clinical decision-making is constructed and illustrates that the process of the adoption of research evidence into health-care decisions is influenced by a variety of characteristics related to the individual, organization, environment and innovation.

TL;DR: A follow-up study of public health decision makers in Ontario collected primary data using a telephone survey and a short, self-administered organizational demographics questionnaire completed by the administrative assistant for each Medical Officer of Health.

TL;DR: The framework uses the perspective of the person living with HIV/AIDS, and includes individual life domains that may be affected by HIV, drawing and expanding upon the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.

TL;DR: Organizational characteristics are important predictors of the use of systematic reviews in public health decision making and future dissemination strategies need to promote the value of using systematic reviews for program decision making as well as promote ongoing training in critical appraisal among intended users in Ontario.

TL;DR: Improvements in self-efficacy, health status, and health behaviors were equally effective in single- and multi- site groups, and access to self-management programs could be greatly increased with telehealth using single-and-multi-site groups in rural and remote communities.