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Poster A comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary healthcare in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: Summary and recommendations of the Expert Panel
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Black, Taylor (deceased), Bhutta, Victora, Sacks, Perry
Background: The contributions that community-based primary healthcare (CBPHC) and engaging with communities as valued partners can make to the improvement of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) is not widely appreciated. This unfortunate reality is one of the reasons why so few priority…
Poster 'A complete shift in ownership': valuing contributions from consumers and other stakeholders in systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Campbell, Pollock, Nunn, Synnot, Struthers, Goodare, Hill, Morris, Watts, Morley
Background: Active involvement of key stakeholders, including people with a lived experience of a healthcare condition, in conducting systematic reviews is now routinely recommended, to ensure that reviews are both accessible and clinically relevant. However, there is little guidance available…
Poster A best-practice implementation project of the maintenance of totally implantable ports: Lessons from one high-volume centre
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Shen, Xu, Zhang, Huang, Li, Hu, Chen, Ge
Background: The totally implantable port is a common central venous access device. however, the cost of implantation and maintenance is very expensive. At present, the main problem of the promotion and the use of implantable ports in China is lack of well-trained professional healthcare providers.…
Poster A cluster randomised-controlled trial for alcohol-use disorders in HIV care clinics
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Madhombiro
Background:Interventions for alcohol-use disorders (AUDs) in HIV-infected individuals have been primarily targeted for HIV risk reduction and improved antiretroviral treatment adherence. However, reduction in alcohol use is an important goal. Alcohol use affects other key factors that may influence…
Poster A comparison of different approaches for editing health-related information: An editor's satisfaction perspective
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Rossetti, Rodríguez Vázquez, Ried, O'Brien
Background: The need to provide health information in Plain English (PE) for non-native speakers and for individuals with low literacy levels has been widely acknowledged (1, 2) . Use of PE has also been shown to facilitate translation. Numerous institutions (e.g. the Centers for Disease Control…
Poster A comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary healthcare in improving maternal, neonatal and child health: Neonatal health findings
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Sacks, Sakyi, Freeman, Perry
Background: Lack of access to safe delivery care, emergency obstetric care and postnatal care continue to be challenges for reducing neonatal mortality. This poster reviews the available evidence regarding the effectiveness of community-based primary health care (CBPHC) and necessary conditions for…
Poster A core outcome set for asthma management: Consensus work across NICE Guidelines, Cochrane Airways Group and the COMET Initiative
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Tan, Cates, Dennett, Williamson, Taske
Background: The difficulties caused by heterogeneity in outcome measurement are well known to those involved in evidence synthesis including guideline developers. These issues could be addressed with the development and agreement on standardised sets of core outcomes.
Currently, three pieces of…
Poster A creative way for knowledge translation: Using a short comedy play in local language to disseminate healthcare evidence to 'illiterate and semi-illiterate' villagers
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
CHEN, Wei, Si, Wang, Zhang
Background: There is growing attention to how evidence-based health knowledge can best be disseminated. A number of research and development projects have focused on the translation of best evidence aimed at clinicians, consumers and policy makers. While these projects failed to concern '…
Poster A database of systematic reviews in eyes and vision – a cross-section of the evidence available to underpin clinical practice guidelines and set the research agenda
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Lindsley, Rouse, Hawkins, Rosman, Twose, Li, Scherer, Lum, Hooft, Scholten, Dickersin
Background: As the number of systematic reviews (SRs) published in the health literature grows, we need to alert users about reliability of the evidence presented. Mapping treatment recommendations to existing reliable SRs ensures clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are evidence-based and highlight…
Poster A flexible online tool for the management of complex evidence-synthesis projects
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Pérez Rada, Zhang, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta, Wiercioch, Canepa, Nieuwlaat, Couban, Schünemann, Rada
Background:One of the possible solutions to address timeliness in the production of systematic reviews is parallelisation of tasks. However, in the context of large reviews, short times, or both, the capacity of parallelisation is limited. Even if more people can be recruited, it becomes difficult…
Poster A framework to promote evidence use
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Moratti
Background: The expectations of what evidence produces and why has shifted over the last years. The use of evidence increasingly matters to clients in the international-development sector seeking value of money for their investment and expecting more explicit 'impact' and 'uptake…
Poster A linked evidence synthesis evaluating mental health interventions for children with long-term conditions: Communicating implications for policy and practice
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Moore, Shaw, Nunns, Rogers, Garside, Ukoumunne, Shafran, Heyman, Ford, Dickens, Walker, Titman, Anderson, Viner, Bennett, Logan, Thompson-Coon
Background: We have recently completed a project which involved two linked systematic reviews and an overarching synthesis evaluating the effectiveness and experiences of mental health interventions for children and young people (CYP) with long-term physical conditions.
Objectives: To work with…
Poster A new evidence-based cancer care model for the Brazilian health system
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Pazos, Scaff, Sznejder, Teich, Baldotto, Braga, Goldberg
Background: Cancer is a growing public health concern in Brazil with 596 000 new cases projected for 2016. The most prevalent are breast, prostate, cervix, lung and colorectal cancer, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer. The rates of late diagnosis and mortality are high. Figs.1 and 2.…
Poster A novel method for benefit-harm assessment based on individual patient data determines benefit-harm balance over time
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Aschmann, Boyd, Mularski, Sheehan, Bennett, Wilson, Yu, Leff, Puhan
Background: Systematic reviews alone are often not sufficient to inform treatment decisions and guideline development as the evidence needs to be contextualised and patient values and preferences need to be considered. Quantitative benefit-harm assessments (BHA) have become more common to address…
Poster A principled and pragmatic critique of the use of confidence intervals and post hoc power analyses in systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
TUFANARU
Background: Confidence intervals (CIs) computed in frequentist statistics for the quantitative results of systematic reviews of the effects of interventions are recommended in the evidence-based practice literature (EBPL) in general and in the widely used approach known as the Grading of…
Poster A qualitative systematic review of the experiences and support needs of newly graduated nurses during community service in South Africa
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ologun, Chipps, Daniels, Pimmer
Background: South Africa’s Community service nurses (CSN) programme requires nurses to serve in rural and undeserved areas. The programme is very relevant from developmental perspectives because it marks the first work experience for many nurses after graduation. It is also one of the key pillars…
Poster A quality assessment of Health Management Information System (HMIS) data for maternal and child health (MCH) in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ouedraogo, Kurji , Abebe, Labonté, Morankar, Bedru, Bulcha, Abera, Roy-Gagnon, Kulkarni
Background: HMIS data in developing regions have often been identified as incomplete and inaccurate, which can jeopardise their usefulness in guiding and reaching national health targets. High-quality information is even more important for populations in which the burden of disease and mortality is…
Poster A review of contemporary clinical study protocols approved by research ethics committees in Denmark to assess if earlier trials were cited
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Paludan-Müller, Vive, Jørgensen, Gøtszche
Background: A new trial should always be justified by reference to earlier, similar trials, if possible, ideally in the form of a systematic review of such trials. Unfortunately, this is not always the case which may lead to superfluous trials exposing participants to known inferior treatment.…
Poster A review of the quality of tuberculosis costing studies
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Cunnama, Siapka, Gomez, Herzel, Levin, Sinanovic, Sweeney, Vassall
Background: Variable quality of unit-cost data may lead to poor decision making due to biased results. Quality can relate to robustness, precision and reliability of the data, as well as standard reporting of cost methods and results. If quality of reporting is high, comparability across cost…
Poster A review on healthcare prioritisation in low- and middle-income countries
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Akor , Vale, Hill, Bell
Background: There are few studies on the process of priority setting in some low- and middle-income Countries (LMICs). There are no reviews of the actual process of priority setting in these countries, specifically, reviews aimed at understanding the approaches employed and its impact on healthcare…