Cross posted from: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
*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.
--
Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
mailto:ruglucia@paho.org