Capacity for conducting systematic reviews in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid appraisal

Health Research Policy and Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Oliver, Sandy ^a   Bangpan, Mukdarut ^a   Stansfield, Claire ^a   Stewart, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Capacity strengthening; Research capacity; Synthesis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; CAPACITY STRENGTHENING; CAREER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EXPERIENCE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LANGUAGE; LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; SKILL DEVELOPMENT; SKILL TRAINING; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIETY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ACCESS TO INFORMATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LITERATURE; RESEARCH;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84930211527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12961-015-0012-0     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Cooke J. A framework to evaluate research capacity building in health care. BMC Fam Pract. 2005;6:44.
2. Bates I, Akoto AY, Ansong D, Karikari P, Bedu-Addo G, Critchley J, et al. Evaluating health research capacity building: an evidence-based tool. PLoS Med. 2006;3(8):e299.
3. Oxman AD, Fretheim A, Schunemann HJ, SURE. Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: introduction. Health Res Policy Syst. 2006;4:12.
4. Lavis JN. How can we support the use of systematic reviews in policymaking? PLoS Med. 2009;6(11):e1000141.
5. Beebe J. Basic concepts and techniques of rapid appraisal. Hum Organ. 1995;54(1):42-51.
6. The Cochrane Collaboration's information management system for managing documents and contacts details (Archie). http://tech.cochrane.org/archie .
7. Population figures estimated for 2010 from World Population Prospects: The 2012 revision. http://esa.un.org/wpp/ . Accessed 6 June 2013.
8. Cochrane community. http://community.cochrane.org/contact/centres .
9. Gøtzsche P, Tendal B, Clarke M. Review production in The Cochrane Collaboration - where is it happening and why? Cochrane Methods Cochrane Methods Cochrane. DB Syst Rev. 2011;2011 Suppl 1:1-40.
10. Gillies D, Maxwell H, New K, Pennick V, van der Wouden H, Fedorowicz Z, et al. The Cochrane Collaboration: a collaboration-wide survey of Cochrane authors; 2009. http://community.cochrane.org/collaboration-wide-survey-of-cochrane-authors .
11. Stansfield C, Weightman AL, Kavanagh J, Johansen M. Cochrane update: identifying health-related research resources relevant to low- and middle-income countries. J Public Health (Oxf). 2013;35(3):477-80.
12. ISSG Search Filters Resource. https://sites.google.com/a/york.ac.uk/issg-search-filters-resource/home . Accessed June 2013.
13. Norwegian Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group, LMIC filters. http://epocoslo.cochrane.org/lmic-filters . Accessed June 2013.
14. Pienaar E, Grobler L, Busgeeth K, Eisinga A, Siegfried N. Developing a geographic search filter to identify randomised controlled trials in Africa: finding the optimal balance between sensitivity and precision. Health Info Libr J. 2011;28(3):210-5.
15. Hammerstrøm K, Wade A, AMK Jørgensen. Searching for studies: a guide to information retrieval for Campbell systematic reviews. The Campbell Library. 2010. http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/project/179/ .
16. Global Open Access Portal. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/ .
17. Brunton J, Thomas J. Information management in reviews. In: Gough D, Oliver S, Thomas J, editors. Introduction to systematic reviews. London: Sage; 2012.
18. Overview of access options for the Cochrane Library. http://community.cochrane.org/editorial-and-publishing-policy-resource/overview-access-options-cochrane-library .
19. The WHO Reproductive Health Library. http://apps.who.int/rhl/en/ .
20. Effective Health Care Research Consortium. http://www.evidence4health.org/ .
21. Young T, Garner P, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Tharyan P, Volmink J. Cochrane and capacity building in low- and middle-income countries: where are we at? Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;11:ED000072.
22. Norwegian Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group, Scope of our work. http://epocoslo.cochrane.org/scope-our-work .
23. Policy Influencing Activities. http://www.3ieimpact.org/en/about/what-3ie-does/policy-influenc/ .
24. Evidence for Health. Key achievements. http://www.evidence4health.org/about-ehcrc/key-achievements/ .
25. Regional East African Community Health (REACH) Policy Initiative Project 2015. http://www.eac.int/health/index.php?option=com_content&id=96&Itemid=125 . Accessed 2013.
26. WHO. EVIPNet for better decision making. Geneva: World Health Organisation; 2012.
27. McDonald S, Turner T, Chamberlain C, Lumbiganon P, Thinkhamrop J, Festin MR, et al. Building capacity for evidence generation, synthesis and implementation to improve the care of mothers and babies in South East Asia: methods and design of the SEA-ORCHID Project using a logical framework approach. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2010;10:61.
28. Florenzano F, Benitez J, Pantoja T. Identifying methodological challenges in conducting systematic reviews of health policy and systems research: a study case in low- and middle-income countries. Santiago, Chile: Methodology Centre for Systematic Reviews of Health Policy and Systems Research in Low and Middle Income Countries; 2010.
29. Gough D, Thomas J, Oliver S. Clarifying differences between review designs and methods. Syst Rev. 2012;1:28.
30. Rose P, Battock M. Review of the DFID systematic review programme. 2012. http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/Output/193302/Default.aspx . Accessed 29 July 2013.
31. Wilson MG, Moat KA, Lavis JN. The global stock of research evidence relevant to health systems policymaking. Health Res Policy Syst. 2013;11:32.
32. Greenhalgh T, Robert G, Macfarlane F, Bate P, Kyriakidou O. Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: systematic review and recommendations. Milbank Q. 2004;82(4):581-629.
33. Long JC, Cunningham FC, Braithwaite J. Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners in collaborative networks: a systematic review. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013;13:158.
34. Boyd A, Cole DC, Cho DB, Aslanyan G, Bates I. Frameworks for evaluating health research capacity strengthening: a qualitative study. Health Res Policy Syst. 2013;11:46.
35. Cole D, Kakuma R, Fonn S, Izugbara C, Thorogood M, Bates I. Evaluations of health research capacity development: a review of the evidence. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2012;87(5 Suppl 1):226-305.
36. Posthumus H, Martin A, Chancellor T. A systematic review on the impacts of capacity strengthening of agricultural research systems for development and the conditions of success. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
37. The ESSENCE on Health Research Initiative. Planning, monitoring and evaluation framework for capacity strengthening in health research - ESSENCE Good Practice. 2014. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2011/TDR_essence:11.1_eng.pdf?ua=1 . Accessed 9 December 2014.