Table 2 Tools to support evidence-informed decision making (EIDM)*
From: Tools to support evidence-informed public health decision making
Step | Tool | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
1. DEFINE | Developing an Efficient Search Strategy | → Assists users in turning a practice-based issue into an answerable, searchable question and identifying key terms to facilitate an efficient search [33]. | Word document |
Developing a Conceptual Model | → Guides users through the process of visually depicting the practice-based issue and question [18, 37]. | Word document | |
2. SEARCH | 6S Pyramid | → Guides users through searching published literature, moving from the most synthesized evidence to single studies [39]. | Word document |
Resources to Guide & Track Your Search | → Enables users to track the results of a search, and includes links to searchable databases [40, 41]. | Word document | |
Keeping Track of Search Results: A Flowchart | → Enables users to document the results of a search [42]. | PowerPoint document | |
3. APPRAISE | AGREE II Instrument | → Guides users through critical appraisal of practice guidelines [43–45]. | PDF document |
AMSTAR Tool | → Guides users through critical appraisal of syntheses [47–50]. | Online, PDF document | |
Quality Assessment Tool | → Guides users through critical appraisal of syntheses [46]. | PDF document | |
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Tools | → Guides users through critical appraisal of multiple study designs (syntheses, intervention studies, cohort studies, case–control studies, diagnostic studies, economic evaluations, clinical prediction rules, qualitative studies) [51]. | PDF document | |
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network | → Guides users through critical appraisal of multiple study designs (syntheses, intervention studies, cohort studies, case–control studies, diagnostic studies, and economic evaluations) [52]. | Word document | |
Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies | → Guides public health users through critical appraisal of multiple quantitative study designs (intervention studies, case–control studies, cohort studies, interrupted time series) [56]. | PDF document | |
Critical Review Form Qualitative Studies | → Guides users through critical appraisal of qualitative studies [57, 58]. | PDF document | |
4. SYNTHESIZE | Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews | → Provides a table-format template for users to extract relevant information from systematic reviews [18, 59]. | Word document |
5. ADAPT | Applicability & Transferability of Evidence Tool | → Guides users through the process and criteria for evaluating the applicability and transferability of the evidence to local contexts [65]. | PDF document |
Rapid Review Report Structure | → Guides users through writing the results of a Rapid Evidence Review [18, 66]. | PDF document | |
6. IMPLEMENT | Knowledge Translation Planning Tool | → Guides users through planning, implementing, and evaluating plans for knowledge translation [68]. | PDF document |
7. EVALUATE | Managers’ Checklist | → Provides users with an outline or checklist of the key elements of the EIDM process [18, 72]. | Word document |