About the Registry
What is the Registry?
The purpose of the Registry is to identify, describe and facilitate access to methods and tools across specific types and stages of knowledge translation activities.
The Registry is a fundamental product of the NCCMT. The NCCMT's mandate defined the boundaries and guided the Registry's early development in 2007.
The first critical phase of the Registry's development involved setting priorities. An Environmental Scan that included a literature review, key informant interviews, an environmental scan survey, and a series of priority-setting Delphi surveys identified a need for knowledge translation methods and tools and a quick and easy way access to these resources. This on-line Registry of knowledge translation methods and tools for public health was created in response.
In the second phase, an International Advisory Group and a development team (see Acknowledgements) were established to design processes for:
- Locating methods and tools
- Assessing resources for inclusion into the Registry
- Critically appraising (where possible) the quality of methods and tools to populate the Registry
- Creating summaries of methods and tools for public health users
The process of searching for resources has since expanded to include a list of search strategies, an inclusion screening tool and companion manual, a data extraction tool (MADI) and companion manual, and a summary writing template.
Please refer to About the Registry Methodology section available in PDF format for an in-depth description about Inclusion Screening, the MADI, or the Summary Writing Template, or contact us directly for more information.
Users can select to view brief summaries (approximately 100 word abstracts), view detailed summaries (with printable PDF options, reference information, and web-links or direct access to methods and/or tools), or view comparisons between specific methods and tools across different stages of planning, doing and evaluating.
The Registry is an interactive resource. Users can:
- Access a searchable online database for methods and tools using Targeted, Keyword, or Matrix searches
- Suggest methods and tools to be considered for inclusion in the Registry;
- Sign-up for e-alerts when new methods and tools are posted to the Registry
- Link to a moderated NCCMT Discussion Forum that focuses on Knowledge Translation methods and tools
- and more...
The Registry is an expanding resource:
As the field of knowledge translation continues to grow, the Registry will expand to include the newest methods and tools developed for public health. The Registry is a new and evolving resource and as such does not provide an exhaustive list of methods and tools for knowledge translation; however, within the next two years the Registry database will include resources from as far back as 1985 to the present.