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Oral Individual, institutional and network factors affecting academic researcher engagement with policy: What can universities do?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Jessani, Siddiqi, Babcock, Davey-Rothwell, Holtgrave
Background: Much policy-relevant research is produced by academic institutions such as universities. However, the onus of ensuring it influences policy often rests on the researcher. Placed traditionally at the research side of the paradigm, academia perhaps serves an untapped role as a knowledge…
Oral Innovation in systematic review methods: successive developments in framework synthesis
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Brunton, Thomas, Oliver
Background: Systematic reviews have evolved to address complex issues across health and social policy. Framework synthesis is increasingly employed in systematic reviews to address such complexity. Adapted from framework analysis methods used in primary research, framework synthesis begins with an…
Oral Integrating different forms of research evidence into the intervention systematic review: what additional knowledge can be ascertained?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Greenwood, Virendrakumar, Wargent, Jolley, Schmidt
Background: With disability often investigated as a social construct and a greater emphasis being put on a participant’s voice and lived experience, the traditional systematic review (SR) may not be best suited in terms of utility and impact at a programmatic level to a disability-focused…
Oral Integrating findings from a qualitative evidence synthesis with related reviews of effectiveness: A matrix-table approach
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ames, Lewin, Glenton
Background: Using qualitative-evidence synthesis (QES) findings to supplement findings from review of the effectiveness of interventions is a relatively new approach, and the most appropriate methods for doing this are still unclear.
Objectives: To use a matrix table to integrate the findings…
Oral Integrating the evidence from an HIV/AIDS-related Symptom-Management Guideline into clinical practice: A preliminary study in China
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Zhu, Hu, Li, Bao, Zhang, Zha, Hou, Lu
Background: Physical symptoms and mental disorders are prevalent among persons living with HIV (PLWH). Different symptoms among PLWHs are always associated with lower quality of life and poorer prognosis. In previous studies, we identified and validated an HIV/AIDS-related symptom-management…
Oral Involvement of people with learning disabilities in guidance development – lost in translation?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Karpusheff, Shaw
Background: Patient and public involvement is a core principle of many guideline programmes, and is cited as an indicator of quality. However, there can be challenges in how best to involve people who may have specific barriers to full and meaningful engagement.
NICE is developing 2 guidelines…
Oral Involving health workers by placing them in the centre: how Human-Centred Design can positively impact research and evidence synthesis
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Auer, O'Donnell, Bonfoh, Oyo-Ita, Njepuome, Mandjate, Zuske, Curry, Brown, Krause, Bosch-Capblanch, Muloliwa
Background: The PHISICC project is a collaboration between public-health researchers and human-centred design (HCD) practitioners. Using the HCD approach, the project aimed to re-design and test paper-based health information systems (HIS) to facilitate better decision making, data quality, and…
Oral Knowledge brokering: An organisational strategy to support evidence-informed public health
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Dobbins, Ciliska, Snelling
Background: The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools has implemented strategies for ten years to support capacity development for evidence-informed decision making amongst public health professionals in Canada. The knowledge broker mentoring programme is a comprehensive strategy that…
Oral Lean experiments - Filling the evidence gap
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Wojkowska, Nakamura
The traditional delivery of development assistance makes it difficult for development-sector organisations to test new approaches to poverty reduction. As a sector we often commit to mid- or long-term programme designs without first collecting evidence and knowing whether the intervention is having…
Oral Lessons learned from adopting an integrated approach to promote evidence-informed health policy making: A case experience from a middle-income country
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Fadlallah , El-Jardali, Akl, Bou-Karroum
Background: Evidence-informed health policy making is an approach to policy decisions that is intended to ensure that decision making is well-informed by the best-available research evidence. This creates a need for an approach that links knowledge production to knowledge translation. The Center…
Oral Lessons on strengthening use of evidence in government institutions: A case study of the SECURE Health programme in Kenya
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Githure, Williams
Background: Although decision makers recognise the value of evidence in formulating sound and sustainable policies that will achieve their objective, often research evidence is not consulted when developing policies. The paucity of research evidence on how to bridge this gap, particularly in the…
Oral Leveraging the research continuum with early, continuous, responsible engagement between policy makers and academia enhances HIV-prevention evidence uptake
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Koch
Background: The utilisation of research enhances the quality of policy discussions and potentially HIV policy outcomes (Datta & Jones, 2011). There are an increasing number of initiatives encouraging evidence use in HIV policy. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these approaches is…
Oral Making sense of complex interventions: application of hierarchical meta-regression in a meta-analysis of diabetes quality improvement (QI) interventions
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Danko, Dahabreh , Ivers, Trikalinos, Tricco, Edwards, Hillmer, Lavis, Manns, Moher, Paprica, Ramsay, Sargious, Shojania, Straus, Tonelli, Yu, Grimshaw
Background: Systematic reviews often address complex interventions that have multiple components. Standard meta-analysis methods often do not adequately reflect the complexity of these interventions because compromises must be made to facilitate synthesis (e.g. multiarm studies are reduced to…
Oral Making the GRADE approach for network meta-analysis more efficient
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Brignardello-Petersen, Bonner, Alexander, Guyatt
Background: Assessing the certainty of the evidence from a systematic review is a crucial task to draw appropriate conclusions. In systematic reviews that conduct network-meta analysis (NMA), this task can be perceived as onerous and time-consuming.
Objectives: To describe the conceptual…
Oral Making the case for investing in public health: Return on investment
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Owen, Pennington, Nolan
Background:The economic consequences of premature death and preventable illness are considerable.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England has developed return on investment (ROI) tools to enable the determination of the cost impact and ROI of public-health…
Oral Management of Vascular Anomalies and Hip Dysplasia in Children According to International Recommendations
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Melnyk, Lishchyshyna
Background: Management of different diseases in children is often complicated due to the lack of evidence concerning certain medical interventions in children, especially innovative ones.
Objectives: To develop up-to-date, evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols of medical care for the…
Oral Meta-ethnography reporting Guidance (eMERGe)
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Noyes, Uny, Cunningham
Background: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further our understanding of people’s experiences (e.g. regarding healthcare). Meta-ethnography is a 7-phase qualitative evidence synthesis method, developed by Noblit and Hare (1988). The approach, although…
Oral MetaPROM – Enhancing the interpretation of Meta-analyses of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures through a Microsoft Excel-based statistical software program
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Devji, Guyatt, Svendrovski, da Costa, Johnston
Background: Interpretation of the magnitude of treatment effects for most continuous outcomes and, particularly for patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), presents challenges. Having decided which PROMs to include in a meta-analysis, review authors must ensure the results they present are…
Oral Minimally important difference estimates and assessment of their credibility for patient-reported outcomes in adults: A systematic survey
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Carrasco-Labra, Devji, Lytvyn, Brignardello-Petersen, Prasad, Devasenapathy, Zeraatkar, Foroutan, Pardo-Hernandez, Vernooij, Jin, Ross, Quach, Schandelmaier, Panepinto, Bhatt, Qasim, Phillips, Furukawa, Patrick, Schünemann, Johnston, Ebrahim, Nesrallah, Guyatt
Background:Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) capture patients’ perspectives on treatment benefits and harms. Understanding PROs requires determining a level of improvement or deterioration that patients consider important. The most common reference point for interpretation of PROs is the minimal…
Oral More knowledge is required. Stakeholder engagement and ownership in systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Miljand, Zetterberg, Johansson
Background: Systematic reviews on environmental issues are still not commonly used by decision makers. One important reason is the lack of ownership of the results. The Swedish centre of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) network, the Mistra Council for Evidence-based Environmental…