TY - JOUR
AU - Huerta, Tim
AB - Background: Health services and population health innovations advance when knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) occurs among researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and consumers using high-quality evidence. However, few KTE models have been evaluated in practice. Communities of practice (CoP) – voluntary, self-organizing, and focused groups of individuals and organizations – may provide one option. This paper outlines an approach to lay the foundation for a CoP within the area of Web-assisted tobacco interventions (WATI). The objectives of the study were to provide a data-driven foundation to inform decisions about organizing a CoP within the geographically diverse, multi-disciplinary WATI group using evaluation and social network methodologies. Methods: A single-group design was employed using a survey of expectations, knowledge, and interpersonal WATI-related relationships administered prior to a meeting of the WATI group followed by a 3-week post-meeting Web survey to assess short-term impact on learning and networking outcomes. Results: Twenty-three of 27 WATI attendees (85%) from diverse disciplinary and practice backgrounds completed the baseline survey, with 21 (91%) of those participants completing the three-week follow-up. Participants had modest expectations of the meeting at baseline. A social network map produced from the data illustrated a centralized, yet sparse network comprising of interdisciplinary teams with 
TI - Knowledge transfer & exchange through social networks: building foundations for a community of practice within tobacco control
JF - Implementation Science
DO - 10.1186/1748-5908-1-20
DA - 2006-09-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/knowledge-transfer-exchange-through-social-networks-building-EGVSImp13O
SP - 1
EP - 11
VL - 1
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -