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Working on a wide range of Sax Institute rapid evidence reviews has been a key part of health economist Professor Chris Doran’s bid to engage policy in the research process. Professor Doran, who is the Research Professor in Health Economics from the Centre for Indigenous Health Equity Research, School of Health Medical & Applied Sciences … Read more
Reducing patient harm across healthcare systems requires less hierarchy in the medical system, further research, and “more geeks”, global patient safety expert Professor Sir Liam Donaldson told a recent patient safety seminar. The Sydney seminar, co-hosted by Sax Institute, the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University and the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC), saw … Read more
A Sax Institute review of the effectiveness of new strategies to increase research use in policy and program agencies has outlined four key factors underpinning successful knowledge translation. Ms Gai Moore, Principal Analyst in the Sax Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division, presented new findings on what the evidence shows about what works in knowledge translation to the World … Read more
When it comes to gathering evidence to inform policy, getting the research question right at the start is key to producing a rapid review that can successfully answer a policy question. This piece of advice is one of 10 top tips outlined by Gai Moore, Principal Analyst in the Sax Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division in a recent … Read more
This series showcases the contributions of Sax Institute researchers to papers published in peer-reviewed literature What was studied? The researchers examined 74 rapid reviews commissioned by health policy agencies through the Sax Institute’s Evidence Check program between 2006 and 2011, looking at what prompted policy makers to commission the reviews and how they intended to … Read more
A Sax Institute rapid review of latest evidence on the hot topic of alcohol availability, consumption and harms reveals there is high-quality evidence showing that both the density of liquor outlets and alcohol trading hours are associated with rates of violence. The Evidence Check on the Community Impact of Liquor Licences, which was commissioned by the NSW Ministry of Health last … Read more
The Sax Institute’s Evidence Checks rapid reviews are frequently put to use by policy agencies to help set priorities, policies and programs, new research confirms. Gai Moore, Principal Analyst in the Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division, presented the findings of an analysis of how the rapid reviews are used to the Australasian Implementation Conference in Melbourne this month. … Read more
The Mental Health Commission of NSW has welcomed the findings of a Sax Institute Evidence Check that reviewed the latest evidence on the effectiveness of consumer-led mental health services. The Commission this month launched the report, The effectiveness of services led or run by consumers in mental health, which finds that international studies into mental … Read more
Findings of a Sax Institute Evidence Check review on the topical issue of commissioning primary healthcare services have been published in the Australian Journal of Primary Health. The Evidence Check was commissioned by the NSW Ministry of Health to assist in assessing evidence on what forms of commissioning would support best value investment for primary … Read more
Gai Moore The Sax Institute’s Gai Moore admits that there’s no such thing as a simple Evidence Check. Each of the rapid reviews that are brokered by the Sax Institute on behalf of policy agencies brings different challenges and complexities, says Ms Moore, Principal Analyst in the Institute’s Knowledge Exchange division. But having recently reached … Read more
