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Abstract
Background:
Efficient, useful evidence synthesis relies on collaborations of people with the right skills, experience and availability completing a wide range of tasks at just the right time. TaskExchange (taskexchange.cochrane.org) is an online platform that supports collaboration across all the members of the evidence community including consumers, systematic reviewers, guideline developers and decision-makers. The aim of TaskExchange is to bring together people who need help with evidence synthesis tasks with people who have the time and skills to help; facilitating collaborative production of high quality, relevant, up-to-date evidence.
Objectives:
This paper describes the development, growth and future plans for TaskExchange, an online platform facilitating collaboration in health evidence synthesis.
Methods:
TaskExchange was initially developed as part of Cochrane’s Project Transform. The Guidelines International Network is also a partner in TaskExchange enabling TaskExchange to cover both guideline and systematic review related tasks. TaskExchange is an openly accessible online platform. Users sign in and create a profile, browse or search for relevant tasks, respond to tasks or post new tasks.
Results:
As of February 2018 TaskExchange has almost 500 tasks and is approaching 2000 users, with a task response rate of more than 75%. Consumer review tasks are in our top three task types, along with translation and data extraction tasks.
Conclusions:
By bringing together the global evidence synthesis community, including consumers, systematic reviewers, guideline developers and decision-makers and enabling effective collaboration, TaskExchange has the potential to enable efficient production of high quality, relevant, up-to-date evidence.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: Consumers are key contributors to TaskExchange but were not involved in the drafting of this abstract.
Efficient, useful evidence synthesis relies on collaborations of people with the right skills, experience and availability completing a wide range of tasks at just the right time. TaskExchange (taskexchange.cochrane.org) is an online platform that supports collaboration across all the members of the evidence community including consumers, systematic reviewers, guideline developers and decision-makers. The aim of TaskExchange is to bring together people who need help with evidence synthesis tasks with people who have the time and skills to help; facilitating collaborative production of high quality, relevant, up-to-date evidence.
Objectives:
This paper describes the development, growth and future plans for TaskExchange, an online platform facilitating collaboration in health evidence synthesis.
Methods:
TaskExchange was initially developed as part of Cochrane’s Project Transform. The Guidelines International Network is also a partner in TaskExchange enabling TaskExchange to cover both guideline and systematic review related tasks. TaskExchange is an openly accessible online platform. Users sign in and create a profile, browse or search for relevant tasks, respond to tasks or post new tasks.
Results:
As of February 2018 TaskExchange has almost 500 tasks and is approaching 2000 users, with a task response rate of more than 75%. Consumer review tasks are in our top three task types, along with translation and data extraction tasks.
Conclusions:
By bringing together the global evidence synthesis community, including consumers, systematic reviewers, guideline developers and decision-makers and enabling effective collaboration, TaskExchange has the potential to enable efficient production of high quality, relevant, up-to-date evidence.
Patient or healthcare consumer involvement: Consumers are key contributors to TaskExchange but were not involved in the drafting of this abstract.