From research to policy and practice: a logic model to measure the impact of knowledge management for health programs

Abstract

To date, few monitoring and evaluation guidelines exist for knowledge management products and services. One initiative undertaken by the Health Information and Publications Network (HIPNet) (www.hipnet.org), a network of health technical assistance organizations culminated in development of a guide to monitoring and evaluating health information products and services. The guide provides an approach to measuring the function and outcomes of health information programs, suggesting indicators and a logic model linking inputs, processes, and outputs to multiple levels of outcomes. The logic model depicts a way to strategically structure the design, implementation, and evaluation of such programs. This guide represents one of the few efforts to collect, develop, organize, and define indicators related to reach, usefulness and use of knowledge management products and services. It presents a unique logic model and list of indicators that can be used across different knowledge management products and services (e....