- Title
- Systematic reviews examining implementation of research into practice and impact on population health are needed
- Creator
- Yoong, Sze Lin; Clinton-McHarg, Tara; Wolfenden, Luke
- Relation
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Vol. 68, Issue 7, p. 788-791
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2014.12.008
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Objectives: To examine the research translation phase focus (T1-T4) of systematic reviews published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE). Briefly, T1 includes reviews of basic science experiments; T2 includes reviews of human trials leading to guideline development; T3 includes reviews examining how to move guidelines into policy and practice; and T4 includes reviews describing the impact of changing health practices on population outcomes. Study Design and Setting: A cross-sectional audit of randomly selected reviews from CDSR (n = 500) and DARE (n = 500) was undertaken. The research translation phase of reviews, overall and by communicable disease, noncommunicable disease, and injury subgroups, were coded by two researchers. Results: A total of 898 reviews examined a communicable, noncommunicable, or injury-related condition. Of those, 98% of reviews within CDSR focused on T2, and the remaining 2% focused on T3. In DARE, 88% focused on T2, 8.7% focused on T1, 2.5% focused on T3, and 1.3% focused on T4. Almost all reviews examining communicable (CDSR 100%, DARE 93%), noncommunicable (CDSR 98%, DARE 87%), and injury (CDSR 95%, DARE 88%) were also T2 focused. Conclusion: Few reviews exist to guide practitioners and policy makers with implementing evidence-based treatments or programs.
- Subject
- knowledge translation; systematic review; databases; bibliographic; translational research; policy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1321174
- Identifier
- uon:24279
- Identifier
- ISSN:0895-4356
- Language
- eng
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