Fitting places in knowledge translation: Biomedical innovation in healthcare practice.

Autor: Foord D; Faculty of Management, University of New Brunswick, 7 Macaulay Lane, 255 Singer Hall, Fredericton E3B 5A3, Canada. Electronic address: david.foord@unb.ca.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [Health Policy] 2021 Oct; Vol. 125 (10), pp. 1330-1339. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 28.
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.08.007
Abstrakt: The purpose of this study is to examine and further develop knowledge translation in the context of a biomedical device industry. Studies have yet to explain how science-based innovation is first reduced to practice in development of new biomedical technologies. To understand how this occurs, I investigated research and commercial product development in the powered prosthetic arm industry from 1945 to 2020. The findings demonstrate the foundational roles of basic knowledge translation in the production of new knowledge for the powered upper limb industry, and integrated knowledge translation in hospital and clinic-based development of powered hands. The focus on a biomedical engineering industry limits the generalizability of the findings. Future research directions include examination of other cases to identify practices in embedding research projects in locations-of-use as well as virtual fitting spaces.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The author has no conflicts of interest.
(Crown Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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