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Poster Evidence implementation in low- and middle-income countries through the JBI Clinical Fellowship Program
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Okwen, Dangol, Bayuo, Jelly, Kebaya, Sugiharto, Baniya, Hajibrahim, Pyar, Htay, Moola, McAuthor, Munn
Background: Research evidence is becoming available to different settings, including low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, getting research evidence into practice still remains a challenge. LMIC settings are quite challenging to conduct research and to translate the evidence mostly due…
Poster Evidence mapping of the decision-making process of a health insurance company in a middle-income country
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Torres, Gaitan, Grillo
Background: New technologies and evidence for management of high-cost pathologies surge daily in order to support clinical decisions at individual and organisational level. A health insurance company in Colombia set up a programme for the use of evidence in decision making with the support of the…
Poster Evidence mapping of therapeutic interventions for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST)
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ballesteros, Montero, Urrutia , Solà, López-Pousa, Ballesteros, Pardo, Bonfill
Background: Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumours. The evidence in this research field is broad and the body of evidence is scattered and expanding.
Objectives: The purpose of this evidence-mapping (EM) project is to identify, describe and organise the…
Poster Evidence on the demographic dividend and its use in policy development and strategic planning in African countries
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Williams
Background: Many sub-Saharan African countries are beginning to recognise that there could be potential to harness the demographic dividend (DD) from the youthful population in the continent. The DD refers to the temporary economic benefit that can potentially arise from a significant increase in…
Poster Evidence supporting the shortened dental arch for under-privileged South Africans
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Khan, Chikte, Omar
Background: Global evidence suggests that shortened or posteriorly reduced dental arches (SDA or PRDA) are adequate for functioning and may benefit resource-restrained communities. This concept has been embedded within the National Oral Health Policy of South Africa since 1994, though no contextual…
Poster Evidence syntheses incorporating adverse effects and risks compared to benefits of treatment - a key element of balanced systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Harris, Hegmann, Ott, Theiss
Background: Systematic reviews should compare risks and harms to benefits to optimise their usefulness in supporting guideline development. As an example, prescription opioids have become the leading cause of injury deaths and considerable morbidity in the US because harms were not considered.…
Poster Evidence synthesis with intern doctors in Cameroon: The case of Cochrane Africa Network - Francophone hub
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
POLA KAMGUIA, OKWEN MBAH
Background: In partnership with Cochrane African Network, the Centre for the development of best practices in health conducts Cochrane review priorities and provides mentoring and support for resident doctors on Systematic reviews. In fact, very few resident Doctors in Cameroon know about…
Poster Evidence-base and guideline recommendations of patent traditional Chinese medicine for acute lower respiratory tract infections
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Xia, Wang, Wang, Huang, Hu, Li, Wang, Liu, Fei
Background:The patent traditional Chinese medicine (PTCM) sales totaled 35.04 billion dollars in 2015, and PTCMs used in respiratory tract diseases were 10.88% - 12.61% of all diseases in 2007-2014, ranked fourth. Relevant guidelines were few.
Objectives:To compare the evidence base (results of…
Poster Evidence-based decision making: Development of a core curriculum for healthcare professionals and lay people
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Steckelberg, Siebolds, Lühmann, Weberschock, Strametz, Weingart, Albrecht, Braun, Balzer
Background: The revision of the curriculum of the German Network for Evidence-based Medicine aimed at an inter-professional curriculum to enhance competences in evidence-based decision making (EBDM) in both healthcare professionals and lay people to facilitate informed shared decision making in…
Poster Evidence-based design of 12 knowledge clips in maternal and neonatal health
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
González , Sánchez , Prieto , Páez , Jiménez , Reyes , Gómez , Eslava-Schmalbach
Background: Improving maternal health, diminishing maternal mortality and preventing avoidable neonatal deaths are international priorities. Educational interventions (EI) are innovative methods to impact health indicators by encouraging patient involvement. However, its design should follow some…
Poster Evidence-based practice for nebulised gentamicin for bronchiectasis
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Lin, Pan
Background: Bronchiectasis occurred in a 89-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The inhaled aminoglycoside antibiotic (80mg gentamicin in 2ml normal saline 3 times a day for 5 days) was administered via a tracheostomy tube because of renal insufficiency during hospitalisation…
Poster Evidence-informed decision making in achieving universal health coverage: The role of the Evidence Informed Network (EVIP-Net) in Africa
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ararso, Ararso, G/Yohannis
Background: Health policy makers all over the world are facing critical issues in respect of health costs, access to healthcare, and quality and outcomes of healthcare that require evidence-based solutions (www.academyhealth). Evidence-informed health policy making is an approach that aims to…
Poster Examining the implementation of practice guidelines for the management of adult cancers: A mixed-methods study
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Urquhart, Woodside, Kendell, Porter
Background: Practice guidelines (PGs) are meant to link professional practice more closely to scientific evidence and improve the quality of patient care. Achieving the potential of PGs involves not only developing high-quality products, but also ensuring the recommendations are used at the point…
Poster Expanding opportunities: Policy lessons from economic randomised evaluations to reduce early marriage and childbearing in Africa and South Asia
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Chupein
Policy Issue: Girls who marry early are more likely to have lower educational attainment, be socially isolated, have early and high-risk pregnancies, be at risk of sexually transmitted infections, and experience intimate partner violence. Childbearing during adolescence is associated with high-risk…
Poster Experiences of the initial stages of developing service-delivery guidance
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Glen
Background: A commission was received to develop guidance on the organisation and delivery of diagnostic services across the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. While well-established methodologies exist for development of clinical guidelines, health-service delivery is a relatively recent…
Poster Experiences with methodological requirements for guideline-based performance measures and their practical application. Evidence Map and protocol for a qualitative study.
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Steudtner, Kopp, Arnold, Becker, Schmitt, Neugebauer, Nothacker
Background: Implementation of clinical practice guidelines by means of guideline-based performance measures (GBPM) are subjects of current research. No methodological gold standard exists and the approaches are heterogeneous (1). Members of G-I-N reported that the procedure could be more rigorous (…
Poster Exploration of barriers, facilitators and users’ experiences of the GRADE-DECIDE Interactive Evidence to Decision framework (iEtD)
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Meneses-Echavez, Alonso Coelho, Rosenbaum, Moberg, Flottorp, Rada
Background: The GRADE-DECIDE Evidence to Decision (EtD) framework supports going from evidence to clinical recommendations, coverage decisions and health system or public-health decisions. The framework has been used in several WHO guideline development processes, among others. An interactive…
Poster Exploration of factors influencing the development of evidence-based practice in a medical centre in northern Taiwan
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Kuo, Chou, Lin
Background:Over the past 15 years, evidence-based practice has emerged as a major policy theme in Western healthcare systems. Evidence-based practice has been promoted in Taiwan for more than 10 years. At present, evidence-based practice has been considered the best tool for discovering and solving…
Poster Exploring the type of graphical representation of results from network meta-analysis that different stakeholders would prefer. An Italian survey
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Del Giovane, Tramacere, Filippini, D'Amico
Background: Different stakeholders, as clinicians, patients, policy makers and health information professionals, use results obtained from systematic reviews for different needs.
Objectives: To explore the type of graphical representation of results from a network meta-analysis (NMA) that…
Poster Extending ROBINS-I for assessment of studies reporting instrumental variable analyses
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Davies, Didelez, Elbers, Higgins, Jackson, McAleenan, Small, Swanson, Tchetgen Tchetgen, Sterne
Background: Systematic reviews should assess risk of bias in included studies, in order to draw conclusions about the strength of the evidence for causal effects of interventions on health outcomes. The ROBINS-I (Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies - of Interventions) tool provides a structured…