[PDF] Top 20 SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 7: Finding systematic reviews

... of systematic reviews could provide help- ful information if the question at hand relates to a broad category (or several broad categories) of health system arrangements, programmes, services or ... See full document

... or health maintenance organisations may be able to negotiate special arrangements with pharmaceuti- cal companies for substantially lower prices than those available to patients or other ... See full document

... research evidence can often provide comparisons that have been conducted in a systematic and transparent ...to finding and using local evidence ...for finding healthcare administrative ... See full document

... to health systems it is not pos- sible to find relevant and up-to-date systematic ...that health workers are critical to achieving the Millennium Develop- ment Goals (MDGs) and other health ... See full document

... Systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely accepted as providing the most reliable evi- dence about the effects of healthcare interventions ...[2,3]. Systematic ... See full document

... the health system and non-government organisations (NGOs) to provide clinical and managerial support for a very large scale-up of LHW programmes, particularly in currently under-resourced areas where, it ... See full document

... of systematic reviews to inform policy decisions (see Figure 1), we suggest four questions that policymak- ers can consider when assessing the potential impacts a policy or programme is likely to have on ... See full document

... the evidence and judgements needed to prepare and use a balance sheet such as the one shown in Table ...structuring evidence analysis, and focusing ...underlying evidence, and subsequent judgements ... See full document

... using systematic reviews to answer questions about bene- fits, harms and ...a systematic review), Article 9 (on assessing the local applicability of the findings of a systematic review) and ... See full document

... to support evidence-informed health ...research evidence in developing health ...to support the use of research evidence to inform health policy decision ... See full document

... Systematic reviews may be of high or low quality, their findings may be highly applicable to a given policy- maker's setting or of very limited applicability, and they may or may not give consideration to ... See full document

... to support evidence-informed policymaking, or to support other types of evidence-informed action related to health ...A systematic review found no rigorous ... See full document

... is evidence-informed policymaking? For health policy decision making to be well-informed rather than poorly informed, it is essential that more sys- tematic and transparent ... See full document

... – evidence-informed policies and ...the support for evidence-informed policymaking is provided in-house or contracted out, or whether it is centralised or decentralised, ... See full document

... about health policies and pro- grammes and for those who support these decision ...research evidence. The series describes a set of tools that have been developed by the SUPporting POlicy ... See full document

... local evidence may be useful (see Table 1 for a list of some of ...local evidence on the prevalence or magnitude of a health issue in order to con- textualise (and make relevant) the evidence ... See full document

... a health system, avoid the collection of data that are not utilised, and focus on collecting data of higher quality, even if this means collecting less data overall ...from health systems may provide ... See full document

... well- informed decisions about ...of systematic reviews of interventions which affect consumers' interactions with healthcare professionals, services and ...Cochrane systematic reviews ... See full document

... Conclusions: Our results show that when searching for articles on diabetes epidemiology, MEDLINE and Embase would suffice for English language papers, with LILACS giving some additional non-English articles from Latin ... See full document

... two evidence briefs for policy began, utilizing the model previously developed by the SURE program and EVIPNet ...The evidence brief, aimed at improving the screening and treatment of hypertension within ... See full document