Aim
To review published literature to identify when and how patients and health care practitioners have been involved in knowledge mobilisation activity and the impact this may have had on their care.
Background
Improving patient outcomes, satisfaction and quality of care is increasingly reliant on shared decision-making between health professionals and patients. Knowledge mobilisation, at its simplest “moving knowledge to where it can be most useful” is a growing field of academic study. To date it appears that much effort has focused on moving knowledge from researchers to health care practitioners. Knowledge mobilisation to patients is currently under-researched.
Design
Integrative review.
Review Methods
Methods of integrative review will be used to address the review problem. PRISMA guidelines were used as a general framework to guide structuring and reporting the review. Elements of method-specific reporting guidelines for specific streams of evidence will be used as required.
Discussion
This review will aim to provide a broad and deep understanding of patient-practitioner-researcher engagement in knowledge mobilisation activity. This synthesis of the extant literature should offer insights into the optimum characteristics of methods for bridging patient-practitioner-researcher boundaries in knowledge mobilisation action.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
CORE (COnnecting REpositories)