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Our Mandate
· Knowledge
Exchange and Performance Support (KE/PS) plays a
leadership role in enhancing partnerships
that improve collaboration and communication
between a wide range of stakeholders in
healthcare decision-making, clinical
practice, and research in order to promote
evidence-based healthcare decision-making
and practice; and clinically relevant joint
knowledge production.
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KE/PS is
also committed to facilitating processes
that enhance timely communication of
relevant healthcare information to the
appropriate decision-makers to assist in
planning and policy development in
healthcare.
Knowledge
Exchange and Performance Support Activities
include:
· Championing the use of
research/evidence in the prioritization,
development, implementation, evaluation and
maintenance of healthcare delivery.
·
Playing a leadership role in
building the capacity for decision-makers to
navigate through and understand various
sources of research/ information.
·
Supporting decision-makers in
transforming management/policy issues into
research questions.
·
Participating as a member of
the research team on research relevant to
the RQHR strategic plan.
·
Facilitating the development
of sustained, mutually beneficial
relationships between researchers and
health-care decision-makers through the use
of knowledge brokering activities to
encourage the exchange of ideas, and promote
the mutual understanding of, and respect
for, the needs and abilities of each group.
· Creating and sustaining
knowledge linkages with a wide range of
stakeholders in the healthcare and research
communities at all levels (locally,
provincially, nationally, globally) with
common interests and objectives.
·
Participating in the
development of feedback mechanisms to
sustain and maintain the exchange of
information in healthcare decision-making
/priority setting.
·
Identifying and interpreting
sources of internal and external
benchmarking of healthcare quality for
health region activities and facilitating
the communication of these in a timely
manner to assist in defining and promoting
best practices.
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Assist with
performance measurement and evaluation.
For example,
development, implementation and analyses of
logic frameworks, outcome measures, health
indicators.
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