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Poster Shuxuetong injection for ischaemic stroke: An overview of systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Jia, Zhao, Yan, Zhou, Liu, Liu
Objectives:This overview is to summarise the systematic reviews (SRs) about Shuxuetong injection for ischaemic stroke (IS), and to evaluate the methodological quality and the current evidence from these SRs.
Methods:We searched 6 databases (including CNKI, Wan Fang, VIP, SinoMed, Cochrane…
Poster Social media as a knowledge-translation tool to disseminate public-health evidence
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Marquez, Dobbins, Chen, Husson
Background: Health Evidence supports the public health workforce search for, interpret, and apply research evidence to practice. The healthevidence.org repository offers 5000+ quality-appraised systematic reviews evaluating the effectiveness of public-health interventions. Since 2009 Health…
Poster Social media strategy for disseminating systematic review evidence
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Le, Stewart, Dickersin, Li
Background: Online and social media such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia are prevalent in every day life. Many journals and organisations, including Cochrane, have established cohesive dissemination strategies through these platforms.
Objectives: To illustrate social media…
Poster Spreading a culture of patient involvement at an institution level: HAS feedback
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
ANDRE-VERT, GHADI, LAURENCE
Background: French National Authority for Health (HAS) strategic framework planned to develop a more patient-centred approach. In 2016, a survey of HAS scientific project managers (n = 147) showed that they need to clarify what they can expect from patients or users in a specific situation (scope,…
Poster Stakeholder analysis for advancing health-technology assessment in India: A pilot
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Jain, Hiligsmann, L. Mathew, M. Evers
Background: Health technology assessment (HTA) could potentially have an impact on the policy making in developing countries where a large population is affected by healthcare services and resources are limited to provide public healthcare services. India is characterised by low public-sector…
Poster Stakeholder involvement in selecting systematic review topics
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Murphy
Background: This presentation discusses stakeholder engagement in selecting topics for Campbell Collaboration systematic reviews.
Objectives: Discuss methods for involving stakeholders in topic selection for American Institutes for Research (AIR)'s Center on Knowledge Translation for…
Poster Standard search strategies should be conducted for clinical pathways in PubMed
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Shang, Yao, Wei, Li, Xun, Ling, Yang
Background: Clinical pathways can effectively improve organisation efficiency and maximise patient outcome through organising and standardising care processes. Their retrieval from databases remains problematic and this presents a barrier to their uptake in medical practice.
Objectives: In order…
Poster Standards for Reporting of Overviews of Reviews and Umbrella Reviews (STROVI) statement
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Posadzki
Background: There are a growing number of overviews of reviews or umbrella reviews- articles aimed at summarising evidence from multiple systematic reviews on a similar topic. Current standards or reporting frameworks are ill-equipped in ensuring consistency of reporting of overviews of reviews…
Poster State-society relations in low-and middle-income countries: An evidence-gap map
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Phillips, Coffey, Gallagher, Phillips, Stevenson, Tsoli, Dhanasekar, Eyers
Background: The role of the state, the effectiveness of its institutions and its legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens are central to determining a country’s prospects for stability and development. Addressing the challenges that developing countries face, promoting prosperity and ensuring that…
Poster Stimulating evidence-based healthcare in The Netherlands
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
van Croonenborg, Kallewaard, van Barneveld, van Benthem
Background: How to get evidence into practice is a continuous challenge. The current focus is mainly on advanced methods of evidence synthesis more suitable for practice, as well as improving guideline adherence. But also, the absence of evidence should be of concern. Like in other countries a…
Poster Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE)
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Bakkabulindi, Wiysonge
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has a mandate to provide leadership on global policies, standards and norms and to support member countries in applying these to national programmes to improve health. In line with this mandate, the WHO Director General established the Strategic…
Poster Streamlining communication of Cochrane content between three German language Cochrane entities under an international umbrella
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Puhl, Labonté, Nussbaumer, Toews
Background: In line with Cochrane’s Strategy to 2020 aim to make evidence more widely accessible for local populations, the German-speaking Cochrane centres (Germany, Switzerland and Austria) cooperate in translating and disseminating Cochrane contents. They produce journalistic quality, plain…
Poster Strengthening capacity to use research evidence in policy making: Experience from Kenya and Malawi
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Oronje , Murunga, Longwe-Ngwira, Zulu
Background: Although weak capacity for evidence use among policy makers has been acknowledged as being among the key barriers to evidence use, we still do not know much about what works and what doesn't in strengthening capacity of policy makers for increased evidence use or consideration.…
Poster Strengthening clinical governance in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic (scoping) review
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Oboirien, Goudge, Harris, Mambulu, Rwafa, Eyles, Griffiths
Background: Clinical governance (CG) is necessary for promoting quality, accessible healthcare and a sustainable health system. While many high-income countries have adopted integrated system-wide CG approaches, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have not implemented unified CG systems…
Poster Successful implementation of opioid-use guidelines for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP)
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Harris, Willis, Ettakal
Background: The US and other countries are experiencing an epidemic of prescription opioid overdoses and deaths as well as adverse effects on morbidity and function. Several organisations have created guidelines for appropriate opioid use. Their ultimate effect on patient and public health will…
Poster Survey among IVF professionals to assist the development of a decision aid in reproductive medicine
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Glujovsky, Sueldo, Quinteiro Retamar, Coscia, Lancuba, Martinez, Bardach, Ciapponi
Background: In recent years, in assisted reproduction (ART) programmes, both the rate of live births and also the rate of multiple pregnancies has increased, along with their associated risks. The more embryos transferred, the higher the pregnancy rate and the multiple-pregnancy rate. Shared…
Poster Syndrome element diagnostic rating scale of traditional Chinese medicine
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Nan, Liu
Background:Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctors want to promote TCM to the world. Treatment according to syndrome differentiation is the character of TCM and is based on the different experiences of different Chinese Medicine doctors. But the more different treatment according to syndrome…
Poster Synopses of national and international guidelines as the basis for disease-management programmes
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Mischke, Bartel, Ein Waldt, Enke, Höfer, Hoffmann-Eßer, Altenhofen
Background: Disease-management programmes (DMPs) have been established to improve care for chronically ill patients in Germany since 2002. The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) is regularly commissioned to prepare evidence-based guideline synopses. On the basis of…
Poster Synthesis research in support of public health decision making on vector-borne diseases in Canada
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Waddell, Greig, Mascarenhas, Wilhelm, Young
Background: From priority issues such as Lyme disease, to unprecedented emergency issues like Zika virus, synthesis research can support decision making, predictive modelling, risk assessments and research activities.
Objectives: Adapt knowledge synthesis methodologies, including scoping reviews…
Poster Synthesising risk from summary evidence across multiple risk factors
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Shrier, Coldtiz, Steele
Background: Academic authors typically investigate risk factors in isolation. For example, one meta-analysis might report the increased risk of diabetes among smokers, another among those who are physically active, another among those who drink coffee and so on. Patients often want to know what…