TY - JOUR AU - Nicholson, Emma AU - Murphy, Tara AU - Larkin, Philip AU - Normand, Charles AU - Guerin, Suzanne PY - 2016 DA - 2016/10/21 TI - Protocol for a thematic synthesis to identify key themes and messages from a palliative care research network JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 478 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Research networks that facilitate collaborative research are increasing both regionally and globally and such collaborations contribute greatly to knowledge transfer particularly in health research. The Palliative Care Research Network is an Irish-based network that seeks to create opportunities and engender a collaborative environment to encourage innovative research that is relevant for policy and practice. The current review outlines a methodology to identify cross-cutting messages to identify how dissemination outputs can be optimized to ensure that key messages from this research reaches all knowledge users. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2282-1 DO - 10.1186/s13104-016-2282-1 ID - Nicholson2016 ER -