Home and Community Care Highlights:
A Quarterly Digest Launched in December 2002, the quarterly
Digest responds to decision-makers’ needs for timely and
relevant evidence by providing accessible synopses of recent
research in the peer-reviewed and grey literature pertaining
to the financing, delivery and organization of home and community-based
health care activities.
Under Coyte’s
mentorship and a graduate editorial board, students review research
publications on an ongoing basis and summarize in the Digest
a range of studies that are of immediate or potential interest
to industry and policy communities. This initiative cultivates
knowledge translation skills and promotes young researchers’
awareness of the perspectives and evidence needs of decision-makers.
Editorship rotates to new trainees on a quarterly basis.
Digest synopses are
provided in two formats. " Headlines and Summaries"
crystallize the take-home messages of research in a few sentences.
" Thumbnail Summaries" condense
the background, methods, findings and conclusions of the research
into quick-to-use, single-page overviews that include reference
information. Cost-recovery subscriptions are available to organizations
at $300/yr and have been purchased by CCACs,LHINs, industry stakeholders,
and other outlets.
