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If you would like a copy of the complete publication, contact the senior author via the Who We Are section. Glasgow, R.E. (2003) Translating Research to Practice: Lessons Learned, Areas for Improvement, and Future Directions. Diabetes Care, 26, 2451-2456. OBJECTIVES--1) to make recommendations for researchers, funding agencies and review groups that would further diabetes translation and help focus attention on public health impact, and 2) to identify areas of special opportunity for such research. RESEARCH METHODS--The RE-AIM framework (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) is used to identify research questions, methods, measures and actions that can help to close the gap between research and practice. RESULTS--Diabetes translation efforts to date have been sparse and diabetes care research has generally been conducted with unrepresentative patients in unrepresentative settings using interventions that would be difficult to implement in real world settings. It is recommended that future research devote more attention to external validity and to reporting measures that will allow the evaluation of potential for translation along the RE-AIM dimensions. CONCLUSIONS--Actions by researchers, funding agencies and review groups to increase attention to RE-AIM related issues of representativeness, widespread acceptability, intervention delivery and sustainability would help reduce the chasm between diabetes research and care. Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, self-care, evaluation studies, translation, research design, dissemination, validity
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