Clearinghouse Standards of Evidence on the Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility of Intervention Evaluations.

ABSTRACT: Clearinghouses are influential repositories of information on the effectiveness of social interventions. To identify which interventions are "evidence-based," clearinghouses review intervention evaluations using published standards of evidence that focus primarily on internal validity and causal inferences. Open science practices can improve trust in evidence from evaluations on the effectiveness of social interventions. Including open science practices in clearinghouse standards of evidence is one of many efforts that could increase confidence in designations of interventions as "evidence-based." In this study, we examined the policies, procedures, and practices of 10 federal evidence clearinghouses that review preventive interventions-an important and influential subset of all evidence c

SUBMITTER: Mayo-Wilson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9283145 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature