Assessing how information is packaged in rapid reviews for policy-makers and other stakeholders: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid reviews (RRs) are useful products to healthcare policy-makers and other stakeholders, who require timely evidence. Therefore, it is important to assess how well RRs convey useful information in a format that is easy to understand so that decision-makers can make best use of evidence to inform policy and practice.

Methods

We assessed a diverse sample of 103 RRs against the BRIDGE criteria, originally developed for communicating clearly to support healthcare policy-making. We modified the criteria to increase assessability and to align with RRs. We identified RRs from key database searches and through searching organisations known to produce RRs. We assessed each RR on 26 factors (e.g. organisation of information, lay language use). Results were descriptively

SUBMITTER: Garritty C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523380 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature