SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 16: Using research evidence in balancing the pros and cons of policies

This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we address the use of evidence to inform judgements about the balance between the pros and cons of policy and pr...

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Autores principales: Oxman, Andrew D, Lavis, John N, Fretheim, Atle, Lewin, Simon
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20018106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-7-S1-S16
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spelling pubmed-28095012010-01-22 SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 16: Using research evidence in balancing the pros and cons of policies Oxman, Andrew D Lavis, John N Fretheim, Atle Lewin, Simon Health Res Policy Syst Guide This article is part of a series written for people responsible for making decisions about health policies and programmes and for those who support these decision makers. In this article, we address the use of evidence to inform judgements about the balance between the pros and cons of policy and programme options. We suggest five questions that can be considered when making these judgements. These are: 1. What are the options that are being compared? 2. What are the most important potential outcomes of the options being compared? 3. What is the best estimate of the impact of the options being compared for each important outcome? 4. How confident can policymakers and others be in the estimated impacts? 5. Is a formal economic model likely to facilitate decision making? BioMed Central 2009-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2809501/ /pubmed/20018106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-7-S1-S16 Text en Copyright ©2009 Oxman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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