Linking Evidence Reviews to Organizational Guideline Planning: A Pilot Test of an Interactive, Web-Based Presentation and Discussion of Evidence

RESEARCH REPORT

October 18, 2018

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This report is from AHRQ's series on Health Systems Partnership Pilot Project Reports. These reports describe the efforts of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to work with health care decisionmakers and facilitate the use of information from AHRQ EPC evidence report

Purpose of Review

We pilot-tested the effectiveness of a cyberseminar (an interactive, web-based presentation and discussion of evidence) in integrating systematic review findings into organization-specific clinical guidelines within a large, integrated health system. This project was undertaken in collaboration with key partners at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute. Our core learnings include:

Key Messages

Dynamic presentation formats can simultaneously address the evidence needs of high-level health system decision-makers and those working to implement clinical guidelines.
Timing and organizational readiness are critical to the adoption of evidence.
There is a need for evidence to be placed into a larger decisional context for optimal use by health systems