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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font color="maroon" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-GB">PDQ-Evidence <br>
new database that provides quick access to high quality health system and
public health evidence. <u></u><u></u></span></font></b></p>
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</span></font><i><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic" lang="EN-GB">It includes systematic reviews and
overviews of systematic reviews; primary studies included in those; and
structured summaries.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">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<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Website: <a href="http://bit.ly/Yexede" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/Yexede</a> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">PDQ-Evidence was developed
and is maintained by systematically searching PubMed and other databases for
relevant systematic reviews and overviews of reviews. <br>
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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:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">•PDQ-Evidence search
strategies<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">•PDQ-Evidence criteria
for considering studies for this database<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">The aim of PDQ-Evidence is
to provide rapid access to systematic reviews of health systems evidence. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN">PDQ-Evidence is not a
comprehensive database of health systems research. It only includes primary
studies that have been included in a systematic review.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The following people have
contributed to the development of PDQ-Evidence:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">• Gabriel Rada,
Evidence-Based Health Care Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Director of Epistemonikos Project.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">• Daniel Pérez, CTO
Epistemonikos and other members of the Epistemonikos team.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">• Susan Munabi
Babigumira, Simon Lewin, Jenny Moberg, Andy Oxman, Sarah Rosenbaum, Global
Health Unit, <br>
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">• Shaun Treweek,
Population Health Sciences, <u></u><u></u>University<u></u>
of <u></u>Dundee<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">Most of the technical
developments rely on the software and collaborators of the Epistemonikos
project. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-GB">The search and
identification of studies was partially funded by the European
Commission’s 7th Framework Programme <br>
(Grant agreement no 222881) through the SURE project (Supporting the Use of
Research Evidence for Policy in African Health Systems)..<br>
Additional support has come from the <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Norwegian
Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) </span></b>and the Norwegian
satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)
group….”<br>
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