Evidence & Gap Maps: A tool for promoting evidence informed policy and strategic research agendas

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 120-129

  Snilstveit, Birte ^a   Vojtkova, Martina ^b   Bhavsar, Ami ^a   Stevenson, Jennifer ^a   Gaarder, Marie ^c  

^a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

EGM; Evidence synthesis; Evidence informed policy; Impact evaluation; Research prioritization; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA EXTRACTION; EVIDENCE AND GAP MAP; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT; POLICY;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; POLICY; POLICY MAKING; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85004073436     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.05.015     Document Type: Article

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