Getting Research into Practice 2010 Finalists' Showcase

Getting Research into Practice (GRiP)

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Recognising those who have successfully introduced evidence based improvements into patient care.

Champions: Rubin Minhas, Clinical Director, and Karen Pettersen, Deputy Editor, Clinical Evidence

Kevin Volpp and his team at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Centre for Health Incentives (USA) created a partnership with the General Electric Corporation to test financial incentives to reduce smoking cessation.

Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) Group (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine). A collaboration between UK, African, and Asian research organisations that has used research to influence government policy on sexual health and HIV.

Professor Ebenezer Ellen Benjamin (India) implemented an evidence-based initiative to reduce episiotomy rates in a Dubai hospital.

The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA) developed a Guided Care model for chronic care in the elderly involving specially-trained nurses that has reduced hospital stay and improved patient safety.