Barriers to implementing research in healthcare exist at many levels including the individual practitioner, the clinical team, the practice setting and the organizational context [ 2].
We are currently in the process of implementing research in Ecuador that embraces this latter approach, incorporating the technical expertise acquired by our team in Canada [ 61, 62], South Africa [ 50, 55] and beyond [ 51], with the extensive existing expertise in Ecuador in occupational health and infection control.
Given that equity in health is a foundational concept for GHR in general and the Teasdale-Corti program specifically, teams planned and implemented research in a manner that allowed knowledge to be broadly shared and applied to attain equitable health outcomes.
One of this, the Evidence Based Practice Questionnaire (EBPQ) [ 11] focuses on research utilization, in particular nurses' ability to access and appraise research reports and implement research findings in practice.
SCOSTEP's mission is to implement research programs in solar-terrestrial physics that can benefit from international participation and involve at least two of its participating ICSU bodies.
Three steps are listed as (1) working with practitioners on problems, then (2) validating results with real data, and finally (3) helping practitioners to implement research results in practice.
Those nurses who reported support from their nurse managers were also willing to implement research findings in practice [ 14, 46].
Initially based on expert opinions without explicit evaluation of the available evidence, these consensus meetings later started to implement research findings in the consensus process (Mooij 1999).
In addition, 180 (82.2%) students from this group affirmed the lack of information and dissemination of UR within the institution as a difficulty in implementing research, particularly in the first two years.
