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Inventory of best evidence syntheses
Context for the inventory
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Evidence about public-health measures
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Horizon scans for emerging issues
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Living hub of COVID-19 knowledge hubs
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Guide to key COVID-19 evidence sources
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Inventory of best evidence syntheses
Context for the inventory
Approach to developing the inventory
Tips for using the inventory
Evidence about public-health measures
Evidence about clinical management
Evidence about health-system arrangements
Evidence about economic and social responses
Horizon scans for emerging issues
Community of those supporting decision-making
Living hub of COVID-19 knowledge hubs
Background to the living hub
Searchable database
Additional supports
Guide to key COVID-19 evidence sources
Evidence-packaging resources
Evidence-support models
Tips and tools
Resources for researchers
Priorities for new syntheses and guidelines
Supports for evidence synthesizers
Interactive flow diagram
Clarify the issue or decision to be informed
Avoid duplication of effort
Access existing reviews
Identify ongoing reviews
Update an out-of-date review
Conduct a new review
Identify the research question and most appropriate approach
Assemble an appropriate team
Use digital applications and ‘crowd’
Register the review protocol
Search best sources of primary studies
Conduct and report the review using robust methods
Supports for guideline developers
Presentations and products
Webinars by COVID-END
Presentations about COVID-END
Articles by or about COVID-END
About us
Scope
Principles
Partners
Partner meetings
Working group co-chairs
Working groups
Scoping
Prioritizing
Profiling
Engaging
Recommending
Sustaining
Advocating
Groups on stand-by
Digitizing
Synthesizing
Packaging
Secretariat
Funders
Resources specific to Canada
Inventory of best evidence syntheses
Horizon scans for emerging issues
Community of those supporting decision-making
Living hub of COVID-19 knowledge hubs
Additional supports
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Tips for using the inventory
Tips for using the inventory
If you’re looking for the best available evidence syntheses for decisions about COVID-19:
scroll through the table to find the decision for which you’re looking for research evidence on one of these four webpages:
evidence about public-health measures
(e.g., masks and tests)
evidence about clinical management
of COVID-19 (e.g., prescription drugs) and pandemic-related conditions (e.g., mental health and addictions issues)
evidence about health-system arrangements
(e.g., scaling hospital capacity up or down and virtual-care alternatives to in-person care)
evidence about economic and social responses
(e.g., school and public-transit changes)
review any evidence syntheses available to inform the decision, focusing in particular on:
date of last search for evidence (so you know how up-to-date the evidence is)
quality rating for the synthesis (for a sense about how systematically and transparently the evidence synthesis was prepared)
availability of an evidence (e.g., GRADE) profile (so you’ll know whether you can look for a transparent presentation of the certainty of the evidence in the synthesis)
the hyperlinked ‘declarative title’ that provides decision-relevant details like the interventions or exposures examined and the certainty of available evidence (so you can assess its relevance to the decision you’re facing)
whether the evidence synthesis is a ‘living’ synthesis (so you know you can return to the row in the evidence inventory for updated evidence if the same issue returns to the decision agenda)
if you can find a relevant evidence synthesis, use the available information in the row to describe the synthesis (e.g., you can say ‘through the COVID-END inventory, which includes all available evidence syntheses relevant to COVID-19 decisions, I found a recently updated, high-quality evidence synthesis that presents the certainty of the evidence available to inform this decision’) and its findings (e.g., you can use or elaborate on the ‘declarative title’)
if you cannot find a relevant evidence synthesis, reassure decision-makers that there is little chance that an evidence synthesis exists that meets minimal quality standards (we only present evidence syntheses that have an AMSTAR score of 4 or higher).
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