Abstract
Background: The CCRI provides an Integrated Care Evidence Service (ICES) that supports evidence reviews in integrated care [1]. This includes Integrated Care Search (ICS), a validated online resource to efficiently retrieve integrated care literature via the PubMed database [2]. A recent rapid review of models of care for people with dementia approaching end of life [3], conducted by a multidisciplinary team including members of the CCRI, will be used as a case exemplar.
Why conduct this workshop? Timely, reliable access to the evidence base for integrated care can be frustrated by challenges reflective of the topic’s complexity; similarly, evidence review is an overarching term encompassing many review types.
The purpose of this workshop is to increase participants’ knowledge and skills in identifying and accessing integrated care research, and their confidence in conducting evidence reviews.
Intended audience: Participants may include clinicians, health service managers, researchers and students who are engaged in evidence reviews or would like to increase their skills in finding international integrated care research. Participants should have foundational skills in bibliographic database searching.
Workshop Structure (90 mins):
5 mins Welcome, introductions
10 mins Presentation
- Evidence reviews – definitions, which review methodology is right for me, practical aspects of planning a review
- Integrated care – definitional challenges, where is the evidence base?
15 minsExercise
- Working in pairs, choose an evidence review topic and populate an evidence review planner (template provided)
- Group discussion – feedback on the planner
20 mins Presentation
Searching for the evidence:
- building a search strategy
- Integrated Care Search – search filter
- other useful tools – Yale MeSH Analyzer, PubMed PubReminer, Systematic Review Accelerator, PRESS peer review checklist
- extending your searching –
ogrey literature
ocitation analysis
oAI – advantages and pitfalls
20 mins Exercise
- Working in pairs, choose 2 or 3 of the resources/tools described in the presentation and explore them using your evidence review topic
- Note the advantages and disadvantages (checklist provided)
15 mins Discussion
Bringing it all together
- screening and quality appraisal - more tools
- data extraction, summarising the evidence, PRISMA
- publication
5 mins Questions and close the workshop
Engaging with the audience: Participants will be engaged through brief presentations of key issues regarding integrated care evidence reviews and practical exercises designed to reinforce content introduced in the presentations. Participants will work through practical, guided exercises in pairs or small groups. Participants will be required to provide the following:
- their own laptop or device;
- access to the PubMed bibliographic database; and
- an integrated care topic of interest.
Summarising take-home messages:
Participants will be provided with the workshop presentations plus resources such as an evidence review planner.
- CCRI Evidence Service, available at: https://ccri.asn.au/our-services/evidence-service/
- Integrated Care Search, available at: https://integratedcarefoundation.org/ific-integrated-care-search
- Lewis S, Triandafilidis Z, Curryer C, Jeong SY, Goodwin N, Carr S, Davis D. Models of care for people with dementia approaching end of life: A rapid review. Palliative Medicine. 2023 May. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163231171181