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We would like to invite you to our PDW (#266) entitled "Where's the Evidence? Writing Excellent 'Practice Implications' in Scholarly Publications" on Saturday, August 8 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Swissotel Chicago in Velvey Salon 3.
Writing effective "Practice Implications" (PI's) that are relevant to practitioners and that translate research findings into practice is difficult, yet critical to developing an evidenced based approach to management practice. This PDW addresses this need. Key topics that will be examined include: What is the purpose of PI's and their role in translating a body of results into practice, action suggestions; Common problems encountered in developing and writing PI's now and how to address these challenges; Insights from the practitioner's standpoint on how to make research results useful to practice; Benchmarking of requirements for PI's (or other practice translation devices) in leading journals and their instructive guidelines; Experiential insights from a scholarly standpoint on strategies for identifying PI's and crafting them for publication; Participant discussion and group problem solving exercise around translating research findings into practice suggestions. Participants will leave this PDW with: (a) an appreciation of the importance of PI's and their key role in evidence based practice, (b) an evidence based template for writing these, and (c) practice in the process of developing PI's. Participants are invited to bring copies of findings and results sections from their current research for feedback during this session.
Presenters and Panelists:
W. Jack Duncan – (U. of Alabama at Birmingham and AOM Fellow) will address the role of PI's pro and con and strategies and mechanics for authors in crafting excellent PI's and other translation devices from research results.
Michele Issel (U. of Illinois at Chicago and Editor of the Healthcare Management Review) will address the purpose of PI's, their role in translating specific research findings into practice, common problems with current PI's from her standpoint as an editor, and how to better convey the relevance of findings to changing health administration practice. .
Francis A. Fullam ( Rush U. and Senior Director of Marketing Research and Patient Relations at Rush University Medical Center) will address how research results can be made useful to managerial practice and other considerations in translating research findings to practice relevance.
Tom J. Sanders (U. of Montevallo, Alabama and 30 years of prior experience as a hospital administrator and health system executive) will present a comparative analysis of results from benchmarking leading management and health care administration journals on their requirements and guidelines for PI's and other practice translation approaches.
Tom J. Sanders, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Stephens College of Business
University of Montevallo
Morgan 110, Station 6536
Montevallo, Alabama 35040
Office/Voicemail: 205-665-6536
Email: sanderstj@montevallo.edu
Web: www.montevallo.edu/cob
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