PDQ-Evidence
new database that provides quick access to high quality health system and public health evidence.

It includes systematic reviews and overviews of systematic reviews; primary studies included in those; and structured summaries.

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.

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

Website: http://bit.ly/Yexede

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.

PDQ-Evidence was developed and is maintained by systematically searching PubMed and other databases for relevant systematic reviews and overviews of reviews.

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:

•PDQ-Evidence search strategies

•PDQ-Evidence criteria for considering studies for this database

The aim of PDQ-Evidence is to provide rapid access to systematic reviews of health systems evidence.

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.

PDQ-Evidence is not a comprehensive database of health systems research. It only includes primary studies that have been included in a systematic review.

The following people have contributed to the development of PDQ-Evidence:

 

• Gabriel Rada, Evidence-Based Health Care Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Director of Epistemonikos Project.

• Daniel Pérez, CTO Epistemonikos and other members of the Epistemonikos team.

• Susan Munabi Babigumira, Simon Lewin, Jenny Moberg, Andy Oxman, Sarah Rosenbaum, Global Health Unit,
  Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services

• Shaun Treweek, Population Health Sciences, University of Dundee

 

Most of the technical developments rely on the software and collaborators of the Epistemonikos project.

The search and identification of studies was partially funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme
(Grant agreement no 222881) through the SURE project (Supporting the Use of Research Evidence for Policy in African Health Systems)..
Additional support has come from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and the Norwegian satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group….”

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