Background: It is important to create different summary products in addition to scientific publications to support claims about interventions based on evidence from Cochrane Reviews. The Cochrane Back Review Group (CBRG) wanted to create a product that would decrease the burden and yet encourage the use of evidence from Cochrane Reviews for busy researchers and clinicians.
Objectives: To create a product to share findings from reviews published within the CBRG that provides a quick snapshot of the evidence in an accessible format.
Methods: QuickDecks are created for each intervention review and classified into eight different intervention themes. They consist of three summary slides with a standard format presenting objectives, methods, results and conclusions of the review. QuickDecks, prepared by the CBRG, are sent to the review authors for approval. PDF versions of the slides are available for anyone to download and PowerPoint versions are available upon request.
Results: QuickDecks have been promoted through the CBRG Twitter, Facebook, newsletters and email communications. Since the QuickDecks have been available to download in August 2014, there has been a lot of positive feedback and a large number of downloads.
Conclusions: QuickDecks are a new tool used to share evidence and promote uptake of Cochrane review findings. The results of this submission may be viewed at: https://ccnc.cochrane.org/node/605/submission/5975