Prioritising Cochrane reviews to be updated with health equity focus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prioritisation of updating published systematic reviews of interventions is vital to prevent research waste and ensure relevance to stakeholders. The consideration of health equity in reviews is also important to ensure interventions will not exacerbate the existing inequities of the disadvantaged if universally implemented. This study aimed to pilot a priority setting exercise based on systematic reviews of interventions published in the Cochrane Library, to identify and prioritise reviews to be updated with a focus on health equity.

Methods

We conducted a priority setting exercise with a group of 13 international stakeholders. We identified Cochrane reviews of interventions that showed a reduction in mortality, had at least one Summary of Findings table and

SUBMITTER: Tomlinson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161173 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature