Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 639-644 , June 2009

Knowledge translation research: A review and new concepts from a surgical case study

  • Marko Simunovic, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgical Oncology, Juravinski Cancer Center, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Nancy N. Baxter, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery and Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nancy N. Baxter, MD, MPH, Division of General Surgery, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, 30 Bond Street 16CC-40, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada.

,Accepted 1 November 2008.

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 Dr Baxter is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health New Investigator Award, and by an American Society of Clinical Oncology Career Development Award.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00112-3

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.11.011

Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 6 , Pages 639-644 , June 2009

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