Tricco Andrea C, Zarin Wasifa, Rios Patricia, Pham Ba', Straus Sharon E, Langlois Etienne V
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ Open. 2016 Dec 23;6(12):e013929. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013929.
Engaging policymakers, healthcare managers and policy analysts in the conduct of knowledge synthesis can help increase its impact. This is particularly important for knowledge synthesis studies commissioned by decision-makers with limited timelines, as well as reviews of health policy and systems research. A scoping review will be conducted to assess barriers, facilitators, strategies and outcomes of engaging these individuals in the knowledge synthesis process.
We will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute guidance for scoping reviews. Literature searches of electronic databases (eg, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, ERIC, PsycINFO) will be conducted from inception onwards. The electronic search will be supplemented by searching for sources that index unpublished/difficult to locate studies (eg, GreyNet International database), as well as through scanning of reference lists of reviews on related topics. All study designs using either qualitative or quantitative methodologies will be eligible if there is a description of the strategies, barriers or facilitators, and outcomes of engaging policymakers, healthcare managers and policy analysts in the knowledge synthesis process. Screening and data abstraction will be conducted by 2 team members independently after a calibration exercise across the team. A third team member will resolve all discrepancies. We will conduct frequency analysis and thematic analysis to chart and characterise the literature, identifying data gaps and opportunities for future research, as well as implications for policy.
This project was commissioned by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO. The results will be used by Alliance Review Centers of health policy and systems research in low-income and middle-income countries that are conducting knowledge synthesis to inform health policymaking and decision-making. Our results will also be disseminated through conference presentations, train-the-trainer events, peer-reviewed publication and a 1-page policy brief that will be posted on the authors' websites.
让政策制定者、医疗保健管理人员和政策分析师参与知识综合的开展，有助于提高其影响力。这对于由时间紧迫的决策者委托开展的知识综合研究以及卫生政策与系统研究综述而言尤为重要。将进行一项范围综述，以评估让这些人员参与知识综合过程中的障碍、促进因素、策略和结果。
我们将遵循乔安娜·布里格斯研究所关于范围综述的指南。从起始时间开始对电子数据库（如MEDLINE、EMBASE、Cochrane图书馆、ERIC、PsycINFO）进行文献检索。电子检索将通过搜索索引未发表/难以找到的研究的来源（如GreyNet国际数据库）以及扫描相关主题综述的参考文献列表来加以补充。如果有关于让政策制定者、医疗保健管理人员和政策分析师参与知识综合过程的策略、障碍或促进因素以及结果的描述，那么所有采用定性或定量方法的研究设计都将符合条件。在团队进行校准练习之后，由两名团队成员独立进行筛选和数据提取。第三名团队成员将解决所有分歧。我们将进行频率分析和主题分析，以梳理和描述文献，确定数据差距和未来研究的机会以及对政策的影响。
本项目由世界卫生组织卫生政策与系统研究联盟委托开展。低收入和中等收入国家正在进行知识综合以指导卫生政策制定和决策的卫生政策与系统研究联盟审查中心将使用这些结果。我们的结果还将通过会议报告、培训师培训活动、同行评审出版物以及一份将发布在作者网站上的1页政策简报进行传播。
