Objectives:
Reviews coordinated by the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group examine a broad range of complex interventions that influence people's interactions with health care. These are important both for specific diseases and across diseases, and so are relevant for policy and other decision makers considering an evidence-based approach to consumer involvement in health care. The interventions' complexity presents unique challenges for review authors, editors and users of these reviews.
This workshop will:
- introduce participants to some of the issues of reviewing complex interventions - particularly those affecting people's interactions with health care - and;
- explore methods and present resources relevant to these reviews.
Description:
This workshop will draw on the experiences of authors and editors with the Consumers and Communication Review Group to introduce a range of tools and resources for reviews of complex, consumer-oriented interventions, including:
- A taxonomy of interventions for communication and participation;
- Guidelines for extracting relevant data from studies;
- Guidelines for organising the Results and Discussion sections of reviews;
- A framework for identifying important outcomes;
- Approaches for assessing intervention quality;
- Consumer involvement in review development.
Target audience:
- Review authors and editors of any reviews that assess complex interventions and outcomes - such as educational interventions, interventions to promote informed decision-making, and those to improve self-management or participation in health care;
- Clinical practice guideline developers, evaluators and policy-makers.