Knowledge management tools and mechanisms for evidence-informed decision-making in the WHO European Region: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowledge management (KM) emerged as a strategy to promote evidence-informed decision-making. This scoping review aims to map existing KM tools and mechanisms used to promote evidence-informed health decision-making in the WHO European Region and identify knowledge gaps.

Methods

Following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidance for conducting scoping reviews, we searched Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane library, and Open Grey. We conducted a descriptive analysis of the general characteristics of the included papers and conducted narrative analysis of the included studies and categorized studies according to KM type and phase.

Results

Out of 9541 citations identified, we included 141 studies. The KM tools mostly assessed are evidence networks, survei

SUBMITTER: El-Jardali F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619313 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature