In the past decade several policy-oriented clinical and applied research organizations have
sprung up across the country. Although they are to some degree distinct in mandate …

The topic, evidence‐based decision making, may be seen from many perspectives and
levels of policy consideration. Canada has been actively pursuing policy macro‐level …

Medical practices, clinical practice guidelines, clinical performance measures and
measurements, and a variety of health care–related administrative decisions, such as …

Interventions to support evidence-informed decision making have increased in recent years,
but they are often fragmented across different clinical, management and policy …

Evidence-based medicine (EBM), though still relatively new, is successful in challenging
unjustified variations in clinical practice and helps to protect the public by shifting the centre …

Abstract Objectives and Methods: Seventeen focus groups and 53 semi-structured individual
interviews involving 205 planners and decision-makers were conducted in all 11 Regional …

Four recent pieces in Healthcare Policy reveal some disagreement on when and how to
involve decision-makers in the process of evidence synthesis. This commentary proposes …

The relatively recent attention that evidence-based decision making has received in health
care management has been at least in part due to the profound influence of evidence-based …

As the move toward an evidence-based approach to health care has gathered momentum
over the past two decades, a broadening of its focus has occurred. Along with generating …

Evidence from economic evaluations is often not used to inform healthcare policy despite
being well regarded by policy makers and physicians. This article employs the accessibility …