Translating Medical Evidence to Promote Informed Health Care Decisions

The doctrine of informed consent: protecting the patient's right to make informed health care decisions.

Ensuring health care decisions are informed by all of the evidence: the role of trial registration.

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(12):2732-2733, dez, 2008 Prospective registration of clinical trials before enrolment of the first participant is an ethical and scientific imperative required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (WHO-ICTRP) and the revised World Medical Associati...

Translating Medical Evidence into Practice

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Strategies to Promote a Data Informed Culture to Improve Health Care Access

Many health care organizations have begun to analyze aggregated data as part of their efforts to improve patient access, satisfaction and quality of care. As the data become increasingly available, there needs to be a movement from meaningful information through contextual knowledge to applied wisdom to achieve a “data informed culture.” This change means introducing new systems, knowledge and ...

Assessing the ability of health information systems in hospitals to support evidence-informed decisions in Kenya

Background Hospital management information systems (HMIS) is a key component of national health information systems (HIS), and actions required of hospital management to support information generation in Kenya are articulated in specific policy documents. We conducted an evaluation of core functions of data generation and reporting within hospitals in Kenya to facilitate interpretation of natio...