Journal article
Knowledge translation at the macro level: legal and ethical considerations
Academic emergency medicine, Vol.14(11), pp.1042-1046
11/2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2007.tb02386.x
PMID: 17967966
Abstract
Macro-level legal and ethical issues play a significant role in the successful translation of knowledge into practice. The medicolegal milieu, in particular, can promote clinical inertia and stifle innovation. Embracing new clinical practice guidelines and best practice models has not protected physicians from superfluous torts; in some cases, emerging evidence has been used as the dagger of trial lawyers rather than the scalpel of physicians. Beyond the legal challenges are overarching justice issues that frame the broad goals of knowledge translation (KT) and technology diffusion. Optimal implementation of the latest evidence requires attention to be paid to the context of the candidate community and the key opinion leaders therein, characterized by the "8Ps" (public, patients, press, physicians, policy makers, private sector, payers, and public health). Ethical and equitable KT also accounts for the global burdens and benefits of implementing innovation such that disparities and gaps in health experienced by the least advantaged are prioritized. Researchers and thought leaders must attend to questions of fairness, economics, and legal risk when investigating ways to promote equity-oriented KT.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Knowledge translation at the macro level: legal and ethical considerations
- Creators
- Gregory Luke Larkin - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. gluke.larkin@yale.eduCara J HamannEdward P MonicoLinda DegutisJeremiah SchuurWalter KantorCharles S Graffeo
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Academic emergency medicine, Vol.14(11), pp.1042-1046
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2007.tb02386.x
- PMID
- 17967966
- NLM abbreviation
- Acad Emerg Med
- ISSN
- 1069-6563
- eISSN
- 1553-2712
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2007
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9983995102902771
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