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ArticleHealth research policy and systems2023

Improving institutional platforms for evidence-informed decision-making: getting beyond technical solutions.

Jeffrey Mecaskey, Ben Verboom, Marco Liverani, Rhona Mijumbi-Deve, Nasreen S Jessani

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Article in Health research policy and systems, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jeffrey MecaskeyHPI Institute, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-320X
Ben VerboomUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3693-3833
Marco LiveraniDepartment of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0829-291X
Rhona Mijumbi-DeveThe Center for Rapid Evidence Synthesis (ACRES), Kampala, Uganda.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5225-6831
Nasreen S JessaniCentre for Evidence Based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. njessani@sun.ac.za.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1160-3099

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purely technical interventions aimed at enhancing evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM) have rarely translated into organizational institutionalization or systems change. A panel of four presentations at the Health Systems Global 2020 conference provides a basis for inference about contextual factors that influence the establishment and sustainability of institutional platforms to support EIDM. These cases include local structures such as citizen panels in Uganda, regional knowledge translation structures such as the West African Health Organization, global multilateral initiatives such as the "One Health" Quadrapartite and regional public health networks in South-East Asia. They point to the importance of political economy as well as technical capability determinants of evidence uptake and utilization at institutional, organizational and individual levels. The cases also lend support to evidence that third-party (broker and intermediary) supportive institutions can facilitate EIDM processes. The involvement of third-party supranational organizations, however, poses challenges in terms of legitimacy and accountability.

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Decision MakingEvidence-Based PracticeHealth FacilitiesHumansPublic HealthUgandaAccountabilityBrokerCitizen panelEvidence-informed decision-makingEvidence useInstitutionalizationIntermediaryKnowledge translationNetworkPolitical economy

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PMID36647051
PMCPMC9841961

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