PHM-Exch> PDQ-Evidence for Informed Policymaking in health systems

[Claudio Schuftan]

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*PDQ-Evidence
new database that provides quick access to high quality health system and
public health evidence. *


*It includes systematic reviews and overviews of systematic reviews;
primary studies included in those; and structured summaries.

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The objective of PDQ-Evidence is to make relevant high quality research
easy to find for anyone with a health system question. It is a
non-commercial database, developed by health system researchers, designers
and programmers from three continents.

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PDQ is funded in part by the EU 7th framework and Norad. The database is
maintained by the Evidence-Based Medicine Unit, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile

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Website: http://bit.ly/Yexede

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Evidence facilitates rapid access to the best available evidence for
decisions about health systems. It includes systematic reviews, overviews
of reviews (including evidence-based policy briefs), primary studies
included in systematic reviews and structured summaries of that evidence.

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PDQ-Evidence was developed and is maintained by systematically searching
PubMed and other databases for relevant systematic reviews and overviews of
reviews.

The search strategies that are used and the methods that are used to screen
the search results and select records for inclusion are described at:****

•PDQ-Evidence search strategies****

•PDQ-Evidence criteria for considering studies for this database

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The aim of PDQ-Evidence is to provide rapid access to systematic reviews of
health systems evidence.

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A unique feature of PDQ-Evidence is that it links together systematic
reviews, overviews of reviews and primary studies, thus providing a highly
efficient method for searching. In addition, it includes translations of
the titles and abstracts of included records to facilitate searching in
different languages and it is continually updated by searching multiple
sources of systematic reviews and overviews of reviews.

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PDQ-Evidence is not a comprehensive database of health systems research. It
only includes primary studies that have been included in a systematic
review.

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The following people have contributed to the development of PDQ-Evidence:***
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• Gabriel Rada, Evidence-Based Health Care Program, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile. Director of Epistemonikos Project.****

• Daniel Pérez, CTO Epistemonikos and other members of the Epistemonikos
team.****

• Susan Munabi Babigumira, Simon Lewin, Jenny Moberg, Andy Oxman, Sarah
Rosenbaum, Global Health Unit,
  Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services****

• Shaun Treweek, Population Health Sciences, ****University** of **Dundee***
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Most of the technical developments rely on the software and collaborators
of the Epistemonikos project.

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The search and identification of studies was partially funded by the
European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme
(Grant agreement no 222881) through the SURE project (Supporting the Use of
Research Evidence for Policy in African Health Systems)..
Additional support has come from the *Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation (Norad) *and the Norwegian satellite of the Cochrane Effective
Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group….”

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