BACKGROUND Policy dialogues are critical for developing responsive, effective, sustainable, evidence-informed policy. Our multidisciplinary team, including researchers, physicians and senior decision-makers, comprehensively evaluated The Winnipeg Central Intake Service, a single-entry model in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to improve patient access to hip/knee replacement surgery. We used the evaluation ...

The randomized controlled trial produces a clash of ethical principles with the need for informed consent (autonomy) in conflict with the principles of beneficence and justice. Informed consent is one of the major rate-limiting factors of recruitment and this delays the discovery of life-saving treatments indirectly. Whilst supporting the concept of non-exploitation we wish to challenge the pre...

Background: There is increasing recognition worldwide that health policymaking process should be informed by best available evidence. The purpose of this study was to review the policy documents on maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Nigeria to assess the extent evidence informed policymaking mechanism was employed in the policy formulation process. Methods: A comprehensive literature ...

BACKGROUND This paper describes a pilot survey of faculty involved in medical education. The questionnaire focuses on their understanding of IRB policies at their institution, specifically in relation to the use of student assessment and curriculum evaluation information for scholarship. METHODS An anonymous survey was distributed to medical educators in a variety of venues. Two brief scenari...

Influenza is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among residents of nursing homes. Many nursing homes therefore aim at high vaccination rates. To meet this aim some homes use tacit consent policies, in which the vaccine is given unless residents or their proxies state that they do not want it. Such policies deviate from standard (express) consent procedures, which require that vaccination ...

All researchers want to do well planned study and their trial to be published and globally read. However, most of researchers feel there is generally a lack of guidance on how to prepare good papers and what the rules of ethics at the beginning of study. Thus, they seek to learn medical publication rules and find out the advices of the Helsinki Declaration which is prepared in line with WHO pol...

Despite several calls to support evidence-informed policy-making, variations in uptake of evidence into policy persist. This editorial brings together and builds on previous Knowledge Translation (KT) frameworks and theories to present a simple, yet, holistic approach for promoting evidence-informed policies. The proposed conceptual framework is characterized by its impact-oriented approach and...

background: pre-operative informed consent is an important aspect of surgery, yet there has been no formal training regarding it in pakistan. this study was done to assess the preoperative informed consent practice. methods: after taking informed permission, a questionnaire was filled in during an interview with 350 patients, who have undergone elective surgical procedures under routine practic...

Background SUPPORT tools consist of 18 articles addressing the health policy-makers so that they can learn how to make evidence-informed health policies. These tools have been particularly recommended for developing countries. The present study tries to explain the process of evidence utilization for developing policy documents in the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) and...