ABSTRACT
This case study presents a project undertaken as part of a European research study to compare two different approaches to facilitating the implementation of evidence-based recommendations for managing continence in a long-term nursing care setting. The research study – titled ‘Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence’ (FIRE) – was undertaken as a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with funding from the European Union and took place between 2008 and 2013 (Seers et al., 2012). The trial had three arms: arm 1 received standard dissemination of evidence-based recommendations for continence care along with a PowerPoint presentation on implementation; arm 2 received the standard dissemination plus a goal-centred approach to facilitation; in arm 3, the same standard dissemination was accompanied by an emancipatory model of facilitation.
