What is it about?
This article is about the role of middle-level managers in healthcare, specifically in communication sciences and disorders (speech-language pathology and audiology). This article makes the argument that middle-managers are well positioned to be agents of change within their workplace settings and use their roles to disseminate knowledge to workers and administrators.
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Why is it important?
It can take 17 years for research to become common practice in clinical settings. This time-gap is often referred to as the research-practice gap. This article is important because it proposes a strategy, to leverage the role of middle-level managers, to help close that gap. Closing the research practice gap can help improve not only business efficiencies in healthcare but also patient outcomes.
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As a clinician working in healthcare, the barriers to providing high quality clinical care are innumerable. Clinicians face barriers every day - everything from high caseloads, reduced time, and limited resources. Actively working to make change in this space benefits the lives of clinicians and their patients.
Kate Grandbois
Grandbois Therapy and Consulting, LLC
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This page is a summary of: Middle-Level Managers: Untapped Champions of Evidence-Based Practice?, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, January 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_persp-23-00099.
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