{"id":1448,"date":"2017-10-19T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:54:33","slug":"ebm-library-systematic-reviews-in-policymaking-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2017\/10\/19\/ebm-library-systematic-reviews-in-policymaking-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EBM Library &#8211; Systematic reviews in policymaking: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The EBM library signposts some essential reading for the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine. In this part of the library, we highlight papers that reflect the role of systematic reviews in policymaking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Kamal R. Mahtani<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/files\/2017\/10\/layouttile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1449 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/files\/2017\/10\/layouttile-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/files\/2017\/10\/layouttile-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/files\/2017\/10\/layouttile.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>One of the purposes of conducting systematic reviews is to provide accessible evidence to inform clinical decisions. In healthcare, they may target patients, clinicians, managers, and policymakers. Increasing their uptake for policymaking brings particular challenges. Many studies have explored these challenges, so <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If this is a topic of interest, I would recommend starting with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the papers highlighted in this series which describe why these challenges arise and how they may be overcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Paper 1:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Whitty, Christopher JM. &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12916-015-0544-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What makes an academic paper useful for health policy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">?&#8221; BMC Med 2015; 13(1): 301.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everyone interested in the role of systematic reviews in policymaking should read this essay, from the UK Chief Scientific Officer, Chris Whitty. He outlines the key components that make research evidence more relevant to policymakers and states that \u201cWay ahead of any other academic contribution to policy-making is rigorous and unbiased synthesis of current knowledge.\u201d However, he goes on to highlight the need for breadth in the types of synthesis needed, moving beyond traditional \u201cwhat works\u201d reviews. He throws down a gauntlet by stating that \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If the academic community as a whole could do one thing to improve the pathway from research to policy, it would be to improve the status, quality and availability of good synthesis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d So systematic reviews, certainly the broader forms of synthesis, should be of high relevance to policymakers when done right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Paper 2:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lavis J, Davies H, Oxman A, Denis JL, Golden-Biddle K, Ferlie E.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16053582\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Towards systematic reviews that inform health care management and policy-making<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Journal of Health Serv Res &amp; Policy 2005; 10(Suppl 1): 35-48.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lavis and colleagues undertook an exploratory study \u201cto identify ways in which researchers and research funders could improve the usefulness of systematic reviews for healthcare managers and public policy-makers\u201d. \u00a0They began by conducting a systematic review that asked: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what factors influence the use of research evidence in decision-making by healthcare managers and healthcare policy-makers?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> They identified 17 relevant studies, of which they found that the main factors that influence the uptake of systematic reviews by policymakers are: greater interactions between researchers and health care policymakers, timing of the reviews, policymakers\u2019 attitudes towards research evidence, and their skills, expertise, and understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They also conducted interviews with healthcare managers and policy makers, exploring how researchers could make systematic reviews more accessible to them. Policymakers and managers appear to be just as interested in knowing the answers to the \u201cwhat works?\u201d type questions, as they are in answers to how programmes may fit into local contexts and how to influence change. Systematic reviews that provide information on benefits, harms and cost implications are useful, as are reviews that provide information on the uncertainty of estimates. The way systematic reviews were formatted and presented to policymakers was also an emergent theme, with a suggestion that systematic reviews could be presented using a 1:3:25-page format (1-page summary, 3-page brief, 25-page detailed review). Other conclusions can be drawn from their findings, so definitely worth a read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the next blog of the series, I shall highlight two further papers. The first systematically reviews the evidence for interventions that encourage uptake of systematic reviews by policymakers. The second paper explores the barriers to and facilitators of uptake to policymakers. <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamal R Mahtani is a GP and deputy director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. He is also the director of the evidence-based healthcare<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conted.ox.ac.uk\/about\/msc-in-ebhc-systematic-reviews\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> MSc in systematic reviews<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Y<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou can follow him on Twitter <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/krmahtani\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@krmahtani<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disclaimer: The views expressed in this commentary represent the views of the author and not necessarily those of his host institution, the NHS, the NIHR, or the Department of Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acknowledgements: Jeffrey Aronson for helpful discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Competing interests: Kamal Mahtani receives funding from the NIHR SPCR for the Evidence Synthesis Working Group and is Director of a MSc in Systematic reviews<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The EBM library signposts some essential reading for the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine. 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