The varied performance of Community Health Worker CHWW) programmes in different contexts has highlighted the need for implementation of research that focuses on programme delivery issues.
In the UK, this is a key rationale for the establishment of the National Institute for Health Research (http://www.nihr.ac.uk), developed to oversee the conduct of high quality research and committed to ensure capacity for implementation of research outcomes.
These sentiments have been shared and confirmed by numerous studies which have consistently highlighted the barriers to research utilisation as time constraints, lack of awareness of available research literature, insufficient authority to change practice, inadequate skills in critical appraisal and lack of support for implementation of research findings [ 2, 4- 7].
Second, an MoH respondent stated that " donors are key for funding, and can provide funds for the implementation of research recommendations".
Don Bailey, vice president of textile research and implementation for the industry research organization Cotton Incorporated, is cautiously interested in Frey's process, with some reservations.
This can have serious implications for the implementation of research.
Inadequate descriptions of interventions in randomised trials, with crucial details missing from many, have been identified as a problem for both implementation of research and its synthesis.
The use of uniform terminology and definitions that are based on clinical findings is imperative to interpret and compare studies investigating groin pain in athletes, as well as for the implementation of research findings into clinical decision-making.
Looking to the future, the potential to update EMRs automatically as new discoveries are made and their clinical utility validated provides exciting possibilities for rapid implementation of research advances.
While the paediatric regulations implemented in US and Europe have been an important step for the development of research in child and adolescent neuropsychopharmacology, involvement of professional networks and associations is crucial for the implementation of research and training in academic settings.
