R. Valaitis’s scientific contributions

... 8 The More-2-Eat implementation project is a strong example of Integrated Knowledge Translation. [9][10][11] In this project, five hospitals across Canada were supported to improve nutrition care. Champions, typically dietitians, from each hospital worked closely with researchers, with each champion driving the nutrition care changes that made sense for their hospital. ...

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Building on what we know: moving beyond effectiveness to consider how to implement, sustain and spread successful health interventions

... A separate M2E analysis indicated there was a decrease in the number of barriers to food intake on all units, with some units showing an average increase in food intake, indicating it was not simply a change in documentation. 46 After baseline, it was clarified with sites that tracking food intake should only be considered monitoring if an action was documented when intake was low. This clarification may explain the drop in percentage between Periods 1 and 2 (9.5%-0%) in Site E. ...

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Impact of Facilitated Behavior Change Strategies on Food Intake Monitoring and Body Weight Measurements in Acute Care: Case Examples From the More‐2‐Eat Study