health evidence: facilitating use of research evidence in decisions in public health
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Health Evidence: Facilitating Use of Research Evidence in Decisions in Public Health
FUSE Knowledge Exchange in Public HealthDurham University, UK
April 12, 2011
Maureen Dobbins PhD
Lori Greco MHSc
Kara DeCorby MSc
Maureen Dobbins
Director
Paula Robeson
Knowledge Broker
Heather Husson Project ManagerTel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 20462
E-mail: [email protected]
Kara DeCorby, Project CoordinatorTel: (905) 525-9140 ext. 20461
E-mail: [email protected]
Lori Greco
Knowledge BrokerDaiva Tirilis
Research Assistant
Lyndsey McRae
Research Assistant
Robyn Traynor
Research Assistant /
Coordinator
The Health Evidence Team
Funders (past and present)
Health Evidence
How we support evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) in public health:
– Registry of systematic reviews
– Tools for EIDM
– Knowledge brokering…
Guidance and Mentoring:
– Organizational assessments for EIDM
– Developing a good question
– Searching for research
– Relevance and quality assessment
– Interpretation
– Applicability and Transferability
– Strategic plans
Knowledge Brokering
Health-evidence.ca
Online registry:
– Reviews of effectiveness of interventions
– Public health-relevant
– Quality assessed
– Easily searched
– Transparent process
– FREE
Health-evidence.ca
Contains:
– 2300 reviews of effectiveness of interventions
– 21 public health topic areas
– Summary statements – evidence and implications for practice
Topic Areas
Addiction / substance useAdolescent healthAdult healthChild healthChronic diseasesCommunicable disease/ infectionDental healthEnvironmental healthFood safety & inspectionHealthy communitiesInfant health
Injury prevention/ safetyMental healthNutritionParentingPhysical activityReproductive healthSenior healthSexual healthSexually transmitted infectionsSocial determinants of health
Search health-evidence.ca
Search features
February 11, 2010 Fireside Chat
Access your saved searches
Filter results sets
Submit free-text searches
Search Features
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AND, OR, NOT Search Options
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Modify keyword search strategy by changing Boolean operators
Results Display
February 11, 2010 Fireside Chat
Print results
Sort results by column headings
Identify reviews with summary statements
Linking to Full Text Articles
February 11, 2010 Fireside Chat
Full text links available for:• 607 free access journal articles • 335 Cochrane articles
Info on organizational subscriptions are available via PubMed LinkOut links for all reviews published in peer-reviewed journals
See ‘Related Links’ section in article display
Summaries – Evidence and Implications
Page one: context
February 11, 2010 Fireside Chat
Page two: results and what they mean
Additional Tools for EIDM
• Relevance Tool
• Quality Assessment
• EIDM Checklist
• Developing a Search Strategy
✓ Levels and Sources of Public Health Evidence
Tools Con’t
✓ Resources to Guide and Track Your Search
• Keeping Track of Search Results: A Flowchart
• Briefing Note
• Improving Future Decisions: Optimizing Lessons Learned
Questions? ….Thank you!Health Evidence
Maureen [email protected]
Lori Greco Knowledge Broker [email protected]
Kara DeCorbyAdministrative [email protected]