Magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: benefits and challenges of a systematic knowledge translation project in Canada

Table 5 Summary of key results / findings unique to each KT format

	e-learning module	Site visits	B&F survey
Respondents accessed	• Reached the largest number of participants across the widest geographic area	• Reached fewer practitioners, but of a similar scope in terms of roles within health care	• Most limited in terms of ‘other’ non-physician and non-nurse respondents
Barriers	• Most restricted breadth of fears listed • Insufficient knowledge most often identified in others	• Greatest spread of barriers across individual, institutional, and social levels	• More social-level barriers compared with other formats • Insufficient knowledge most often identified in respondent
Facilitators	-*	• Institutional-level most cited, followed by social-level	• Institutional-level most cited, followed by individual-level
Knowledge needed	• Greatest number of responses calling for further research	• Information on administration cited most often	• Least amount of information provided
Method	• One-way	• Two-way	• One-way
Approximate cost	• $10,000	• $17,500 (total) or $1750 per visit†	• Negligible (assumption)†

B&F (Barriers and Facilitators)
* Facilitators were not included in the e-learning module format which was developed first
† As academic health care centre employees, salaries were considered to cover educational activities such as for MAG-CP. Site visit costs were based on travel expenses

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