Disseminating Evidence
Strategies for Dissemination
The key stakeholders in the implementation of the PICO project include patients, their families, health care team members including physicians, hospital administrators, insurers, suppliers, and investors ("Who are the Stakeholders in Health Care"). A broad and diverse group of stakeholders like this one requires a complex and multifaceted approach to project dissemination.
Different dissemination strategies will be used for different stakeholders. For patients and their families, the dissemination strategy will consist of the distribution of educational materials and access to educational resources. The educational resources will help patients to be empowered, so that they can ask questions related to their catheterization. Knowing what questions to ask, and what the answers mean, will help patients and their loved ones make responsible health care choices. For example,...
Armed with knowledge of CAUTI and how to prevent it, patients can take an active role in the health care process.
For health care team members, the disseminating strategies will be different for doctors and nurses because of the different roles they play in the practice of catheterization. The results of the research will become a body of evidence-based literature on catheterization. This evidence-based research will be digitalized and available for the individual health care institutions to use in their policy and procedural guidelines. The evidence-based research will also be available in digital and print formats to other health care institutions, via peer-reviewed journal publications and Web sites. Nursing organizations will also have access to the information and the option of distributing a suggested model…
