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Disorders of Consciousness Practice Guideline Knowledge Translation (KT) Project

Employing Knowledge Translation Strategies to Promote Provider Adoption of the AAN-ACRM-NIDILRR Practice Guidelines on Management of Persons with Disorders of Consciousness Across the Care Continuum

This five-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)-funded study, led by Joseph T. Giacino, PhD, from Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and supported by the Curing Coma Campaign, aims to evaluate the awareness, beliefs, and adoption of the 2018 evidence-based practice guidelines for the clinical management of individuals with acquired disorders of consciousness (DoC). These guidelines were sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), and NIDILRR.

Interested in the 2018 AAN-ACRM-NIDILRR Guidelines?

  • Aim 1

    Characterize provider awareness, attitudes, perceptions of contextual determinants and use of the DoC practice guidelines for diagnosis and prognosis among providers who care for persons with DoC.

  • Aim 2

    Develop and assess the acceptability, appropriateness and feasibility of DoC guideline KT interventions customized to setting-specific contextual determinants to promote their use.

  • Aim 3

    Obtain preliminary data on the acceptability, use and sustainability of customized DoC guideline KT strategies and tools among providers in diverse real-world clinical settings.

  • Video: Disorders of Consciousness Knowledge Translation Survey

    Disorders of Consciousness Knowledge Translation Survey

Partnerships

NIDILRR: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research

KTDRR: Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research

MSKTC: Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center

NCC: Neurocritical Care Society

BIA-MA: Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts

MGH-IHP: MGH Institute of Health Professions

Mongan Institute

Key Staff

Contact

Learn More and Participate: To discover more about this research study and how you can actively contribute, please contact us by phone at 617-952-5254 or by email at epier1@mgb.org and kgolden4@mghihp.edu.

 

This project is supported by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, Grant #90DPKT0013.