Department of Health Management and Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Knowledge to Policy Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2023 Oct 31;21(1):113. doi: 10.1186/s12961-023-01058-7.
Knowledge management (KM) emerged as a strategy to promote evidence-informed decision-making. This scoping review aims to map existing KM tools and mechanisms used to promote evidence-informed health decision-making in the WHO European Region and identify knowledge gaps.
Following the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidance for conducting scoping reviews, we searched Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane library, and Open Grey. We conducted a descriptive analysis of the general characteristics of the included papers and conducted narrative analysis of the included studies and categorized studies according to KM type and phase.
Out of 9541 citations identified, we included 141 studies. The KM tools mostly assessed are evidence networks, surveillance tools, observatories, data platforms and registries, with most examining KM tools in high-income countries of the WHO European region. Findings suggest that KM tools can identify health problems, inform health planning and resource allocation, increase the use of evidence by policymakers and stimulate policy discussion.
Policymakers and funding agencies are called to support capacity-building activities, and future studies to strengthen KM in the WHO European region particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. An updated over-arching strategy to coordinate KM activities in the WHO European region will be useful in these efforts.
知识管理（KM）作为一种促进循证决策的策略应运而生。本范围综述旨在绘制在世界卫生组织欧洲区域中用于促进循证卫生决策的现有 KM 工具和机制，并确定知识差距。
根据乔安娜·布里格斯研究所（JBI）进行范围综述的指南，我们检索了 Medline、PubMed、EMBASE、考科蓝图书馆和 Open Grey。我们对纳入论文的一般特征进行了描述性分析，并对纳入的研究进行了叙述性分析，并根据 KM 类型和阶段对研究进行了分类。
在确定的 9541 条引文中，我们纳入了 141 项研究。评估的 KM 工具主要是证据网络、监测工具、观测站、数据平台和登记处，其中大多数研究都在世界卫生组织欧洲区域的高收入国家中检验了 KM 工具。研究结果表明，KM 工具可以识别健康问题、为卫生规划和资源分配提供信息、增加政策制定者对证据的使用并促进政策讨论。
决策者和资助机构被呼吁支持能力建设活动，未来的研究将加强世界卫生组织欧洲区域的 KM，特别是在东欧和中亚地区。在这些努力中，更新一个涵盖整个区域的协调 KM 活动的总体战略将是有用的。
