The NICE Patient Involvement Unit

2006

141

108

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the 10 th of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Other Organisations Are Doing?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 10. Integrating values and consumer involvement

Schünemann¹,

2006

141

108

“…Some agencies arrange training for members of GDGs – particularly, but not solely, aimed at facilitating the active participation of consumer representatives [14]. Another suggested approach to ensure consumer involvement is to establish separate focus groups for this purpose [10].…”

Section: What Other Organisations Are Doingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 3. Group composition and consultation process

Schünemann

2006

113

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the third of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.

“…Once the question has been framed, key words can be identified as potential search terms" [12]. NICE involves patient organistions in developing guideline scopes and routinely includes at least two patient or caregiver members who provide a patient perspective on all guideline development activities including the formulation of clinical questions and defining of relevant outcomes [13]. Owens and Nease suggest the use of influence diagrams to identify important outcomes and focus guideline questions [14].…”

Section: What Methods Should Who Use To Identify Important Outcomes?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 6. Determining which outcomes are important

2006

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO), like many other organisations around the world, has recognised the need to use more rigorous processes to ensure that health care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence. This is the sixth of a series of 16 reviews that have been prepared as background for advice from the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research to WHO on how to achieve this.