Systematic reviews on child welfare services: identifying and disseminating the evidence

Systematic reviews on child welfare services: identifying and disseminating the evidence

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Evidence-based practice is at an early stage of uptake within child welfare services. To facilitate well-informed decisions, we disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries on a website (http://www.r-bup.no). METHOD We developed and implemented our dissemination strategy through...

Identifying systematic reviews: key resources.

How effective are antibiotics for treating patients with sore throat? The first choice of resource for the practitioner to answer a clinical effectiveness question such as this one should be a systematic review. By systematically searching, assessing, and summarizing the research evidence by using rigorous methods, the best systematic reviews present a time-saving distillation of the current st...

I-15: Offering Fertility Services to Whom? With Specific Regards to The Welfare of The Child

Barriers to and Facilitators of Outpatient Health Services Utilization by Older Adults: A Systematic Reviews

Introduction: Increasing care needs for the elderly are of concern in different countries, especially in countries where their population is aging. It is important to understand the factors that influence the use of health services in the elderly for health policy making in identifying potential problems and developing appropriate interventions to improve their utilization and increase access. ...

Infants and the decision to provide ongoing child welfare services

BACKGROUND Infants are the most likely recipients of child welfare services; however, little is known about infants and families who come into contact with the child welfare system and factors that are associated with service provision. Investigations involving infants and their families present an unparalleled opportunity for the child welfare sector to enhance infants' safety and well-being t...