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Objectives: To explore ways of shaping systematic review questions and conceptual frameworks to address interests in complex issues
Description: When questions for systematic reviews are posed by potential users, they raise three challenges for getting started:
1. scoping important gaps and shaping manageable review questions;
2. collating sets of studies for synthesis appropriately; and
3. balancing the evidence needs of the specific users (e.g. policy makers, funders) with an evidence product that will attract broad interest.
This workshop will offer solutions for each of these challenges. It will address:
1. how to focus discussions simultaneously on policy priorities, existing evidence and gaps, through ultra-rapid scoping and knowledge exchange;
2. how to choose comparisons and to group data to describe and synthesize the evidence in complex reviews; and
3. how to integrate contextual analysis so that authors and readers will be able to draw out the implications of the evidence for different geo-political, cultural, system or community contexts.
Each part of the workshop will begin with an introduction of the challenge, describing some solutions and illustrating them with existing reviews. Practical exercises will help workshop participants apply these approaches to their own areas of interest. The mutual learning from the workshop will inform guidance for authors of future reviews.
Description: When questions for systematic reviews are posed by potential users, they raise three challenges for getting started:
1. scoping important gaps and shaping manageable review questions;
2. collating sets of studies for synthesis appropriately; and
3. balancing the evidence needs of the specific users (e.g. policy makers, funders) with an evidence product that will attract broad interest.
This workshop will offer solutions for each of these challenges. It will address:
1. how to focus discussions simultaneously on policy priorities, existing evidence and gaps, through ultra-rapid scoping and knowledge exchange;
2. how to choose comparisons and to group data to describe and synthesize the evidence in complex reviews; and
3. how to integrate contextual analysis so that authors and readers will be able to draw out the implications of the evidence for different geo-political, cultural, system or community contexts.
Each part of the workshop will begin with an introduction of the challenge, describing some solutions and illustrating them with existing reviews. Practical exercises will help workshop participants apply these approaches to their own areas of interest. The mutual learning from the workshop will inform guidance for authors of future reviews.