Research and Innovation
Our research aims at improving the production, use and application of the living evidence synthesis in different knowledge transfer scenarios, as well as identifying and evaluating efficient strategies for building capacity among key organizations in the health sector for implementation of the living evidence model based on innovated technologies.
An European research project focused on knowledge transfer and capacity building, involves the design and evaluation of a model strategy to integrate the processes of “living evidence” into the products that organizations and groups in charge of informing decisions carry out regularly. Its results include a series of support tools for groups and organizations. We highlight the “LE-IHD” framework, an interactive tool that guides groups in the definition, planning, and maintenance of a living synthesis. If you want to know more about this project, you can contact its main researcher María Ximena Rojas.
Protocol
Starting date: September 2020
Current status: finished (December 2022)
This is a methodological study that aims to identify, evaluate and summarize the methods and procedures used by the authors to keep the evidence “alive”. To meet this objective, we will search the different health databases for all the articles that report a synthesis of living evidence to answer a health question. Articles that meet the previously established “Living Evidence” characteristics will be included and evaluated to obtain information related to the methods used by the authors to constantly identify new evidence, the procedures used to incorporate new findings into the evidence synthesis, and the process followed to inform users about the updates, among other information of methodological interest. This information will be analyzed and presented descriptively. If you want to know more about this project, you can contact its main researcher Ariadna Auladell R.
Protocol
Starting date: September 2021
Current status: Data collection
Funding: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISC-III), Madrid, Spain. Grant PI21/01564; 2021 call
This project seeks to evaluate a capacity building strategy aimed at strengthening the abilities of the groups or institutions in the health sector in charge of synthesizing evidence to inform clinical decisions or health policies, for planning, developing, and maintaining the constant updating of the evidence synthesis through the living evidence model. This model is particularly applied in the solution of clinically relevant problems, in which the evidence changes rapidly, the effects of health interventions are controversial, or there are uncertainties due to their recent appearance as health technology. The capacity building strategy involves a series of accompanying actions by expert methodologists, support in the LE-IHD framework and its user manual, in addition to training activities in the use of tools based on artificial intelligence, which support the processes of identification, selection and monitoring of emerging evidence. If you want to know more about this project, you can contact its main researcher María Ximena Rojas.
Protocol
The LESS Project (Living Evidence Structured Summaries), is a collaborative initiative led by the Living Evidence to Inform Health Decisions (LE-IHD) Programme, aimed at co-develop a clear, user-friendly summary format targeted at decision-makers in the context of living guideline development, living HTA development and/or health policy decisions. This format will support the dynamic and ongoing updating of evidence syntheses developed under the Living Evidence (LE) approach. Ariadna Auladell R.
Protocol
Starting date: January 2023
Current status: On going
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