Knowledge to action? Evidence-based health care in context

Health care organisations often fail to implement good research findings in practice and are therefore, not able to increase efficiency and quality. The implementation gap that exists between ‘knowledge’ and ‘action’ in an evidence-based health care context is well known as such, but has in my opinion rarely been researched in depth. Dopson’s and Fitzgerald’s ‘Knowledge to action? Evidence-based health care in context’ is an interesting book that thoroughly describes this subject. For those concerned about why it takes so long before research has been totally adopted in work practices, the book provides enough insight to understand the matter. The book is very complete and still comprehensive enough to be valuable in practice.