Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 355-363 , March 2007

Knowledge Translation: Closing the Evidence-to-Practice Gap

  • Eddy S. Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University and Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Lang)
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Eddy S. Lang, MDCM, CCFP(EM), CSPQ, Emergency Department, SMBD Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2; 514-340-8222 ext 5568, fax 514-340-8138
    • ,
  • Peter C. Wyer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY (Wyer)
    • ,
  • R. Brian Haynes, MD, PhD, FRCPC

      Affiliations

    • the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Haynes)

Received 11 July 2006 ,Revised 14 August 2006 ,Accepted 25 August 2006.

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 Supervising editor: E. John Gallagher, MD

 Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(06)02142-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.08.022

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 355-363 , March 2007

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