Recent decades have seen widespread efforts to improve the generation and use of evidence across a number of sectors. Such efforts can be seen to raise important questions about how we understand not only the quality of evidence, but also the quality of its use. To date, though, there has been wide-ranging debate about the former, but very little dialogue about the latter. This paper focuses in on this question of how to conceptualise the quality of research evidence use. Drawing on a systematic review and narrative synthesis of 112 papers from health, social care, education and policy, it presents six initial principles for conceptualising quality use of research evidence. These concern taking account of: the role of practice-based expertise and evidence in context; the sector-specific conditions that support evidence use; how quality use develops and can be evaluated over time; the salient stages of the research use process; whether to focus on processes and/or outcomes of evidence use; and the scale or level of the use within a system. It is hoped that this paper will act as a stimulus for future conceptual and empirical work on this important, but under-researched, topic of quality of use.

近几十年来，许多部门为改进证据的生成和使用做出了广泛的努力。可以看出，这些努力提出了关于我们如何不仅理解证据的质量，而且还理解其使用质量的重要问题。不过，迄今为止，关于前者的辩论范围很广，但关于后者的对话却很少。本文重点讨论如何概念化研究证据使用质量的问题。基于对来自健康、社会保健、教育和政策的 112 篇论文的系统评价和叙述性综合，它提出了六项初步原则，用于概念化研究证据的质量使用。这些涉及考虑到： 基于实践的专业知识和证据在上下文中的作用；支持证据使用的部门特定条件；随着时间的推移，质量使用如何发展和评估；研究使用过程的突出阶段；是否关注证据使用的过程和/或结果；以及系统内使用的规模或水平。希望本文能够激发未来关于使用质量这一重要但研究不足的主题的概念和实证工作。