Conditions facilitating knowledge exchange between rehabilitation and research teams--a study.

This paper describes an experience in the exchange of information between researchers and practitioners, where conditions favorable to knowledge exchange were systematically documented. Conditions related to the organization proved to be the most determining, as did the quality and intensity of communication between the actors. This communication process is enhanced by characteristics related to practitioners and researchers. However, the well-established boundaries between the practitioners and the researchers, fueled by distinctive rules of practice, remain a major issue. Knowledge brokerage, effective reporting skills, and adapted, well-focused feedback could help to bring together the researchers and their partners.