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Article: Evidence-based health care 2004: AHRQ moves research to translation and implementation.(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Update)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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"Given the ever-growing sophistication of our scientific knowledge and the additional new discoveries that are likely in the future, many of us harbor an uneasy, but quite realistic, suspicion that this gap between what we know about diseases and what we do to prevent and treat them will become ever wider. And it is not just recent research results that are not finding their way into clinical practice and public health behaviors; there is plenty of evidence that "old" research outcomes have been lost in translation as well."
--Claude Lenfant, M.D., "Clinical Research to Clinical Practice--Lost in Translation?" 2003 Shattuck Lecture, Massachusetts Medical ...