Browsing by Author "Lavis, John N."
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Activity-Based Funding of Hospitals and Its Impact on Mortality, Readmission, Discharge Destination, Severity of Illness, and Volume of Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Palmer, Karen S.; Agoritsas, Thomas; Martin, Danielle; Scott, Taryn; Mulla, Sohail M.; Miller, Ashley P.; Agarwal, Arnav; Bresnahan, Andrew; Hazzan, Afeez Abiola; Jeffery, Rebecca A.; Merglen, Arnaud; Negm, Ahmed; Siemieniuk, Reed A.; Bhatnagar, Neera; Dhalla, Irfan A.; Lavis, John N.; You, John J.; Duckett, Stephen J.; Guyatt, Gordon H. (Public Library of Science, 2014)Background: Activity-based funding (ABF) of hospitals is a policy intervention intended to re-shape incentives across health systems through the use of diagnosis-related groups. Many countries are adopting or actively ... -
Advancing the field of health systems research synthesis
Langlois, Etienne V.; Ranson, Michael K.; Bärnighausen, Till; Bosch-Capblanch, Xavier; Daniels, Karen; El-Jardali, Fadi; Ghaffar, Abdul; Grimshaw, Jeremy; Haines, Andy; Lavis, John N.; Lewin, Simon; Meng, Qingyue; Oliver, Sandy; Pantoja, Tomás; Straus, Sharon; Shemilt, Ian; Tovey, David; Tugwell, Peter; Waddington, Hugh; Wilson, Mark; Yuan, Beibei; Røttingen, John-Arne (BioMed Central, 2015)Those planning, managing and working in health systems worldwide routinely need to make decisions regarding strategies to improve health care and promote equity. Systematic reviews of different kinds can be of great help ... -
Assessing healthcare providers' knowledge and practices relating to insecticide-treated nets and the prevention of malaria in Ghana, Laos, Senegal and Tanzania
Hoffman, Steven Justin; Guindon, G Emmanuel; Lavis, John Norman; Ndossi, Godwin D; Osei, Eric JA; Sidibe, Mintou; Boupha, Boungnong (Springer Science + Business Media, 2011)Background: Research evidence is not always being disseminated to healthcare providers who need it to inform their clinical practice. This can result in the provision of ineffective services and an inefficient use of ... -
Barriers, facilitators and views about next steps to implementing supports for evidence-informed decision-making in health systems: a qualitative study
Ellen, Moriah E; Léon, Grégory; Bouchard, Gisèle; Ouimet, Mathieu; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Lavis, John N (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Mobilizing research evidence for daily decision-making is challenging for health system decision-makers. In a previous qualitative paper, we showed the current mix of supports that Canadian health-care organizations ... -
Bridging the gaps among research, policy and practice in ten low- and middle-income countries: Development and testing of a questionnaire for health-care providers
Guindon, G Emmanuel; Lavis, John Norman; Boupha, Boungnong; Shi, Guang; Sidibe, Mintou; Turdaliyeva, Botagoz; Hoffman, Steven Justin (Springer Science + Business Media, 2010)Background: The reliability and validity of instruments used to survey health-care providers' views about and experiences with research evidence have seldom been examined. Methods: Country teams from ten low- and middle-income ... -
Celebrities’ impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status outcomes: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis
Hoffman, Steven J.; Mansoor, Yasmeen; Natt, Navneet; Sritharan, Lathika; Belluz, Julia; Caulfield, Timothy; Freedhoff, Yoni; Lavis, John N.; Sharma, Arya M. (BioMed Central, 2017)Background: Celebrities are highly influential people whose actions and decisions are watched and often emulated by wide audiences. Many celebrities have used their prominent social standing to offer medical advice or ... -
Clinicians’ knowledge and practices regarding family planning and intrauterine devices in China, Kazakhstan, Laos and Mexico
Hoffman, Steven J.; Guindon, G. Emmanuel; Lavis, John N.; Randhawa, Harkanwal; Becerra-Posada, Francisco; Boupha, Boungnong; Shi, Guang; Turdaliyeva, Botagoz S.; Cameron, David; Qiu, Tinglin; Osei, Eric J. A.; Dovlo, Kudjoe; Yesudian, C. A. K.; Ramachandran, P.; Malek-Afzali, Hossein; Dejman, M.; Falahat, K.; Baradaran, M.; Habibi, E.; Kohanzad, H.; Nasehi, M.; Salek, S.; Akanov, A. A.; Turdaliyeva, B. S.; Hamzina, N. K.; Tulebaev, K. A.; Clazhneva, T. I.; Battakova, G.; Kounnavong, Sengchanh; Siengsounthone, Latsamy; Ramos, Leticia Alfaro; Mejia, Israel; Akhtar, Tasleem; Khan, M. Mubashir A.; Sidibe, Mintou Fall; Sidibe, Awa; Ndiaye, Djiby; Ndossi, Godwin D.; Massaga, Julius; Sadana, Ritu; Pang, Tikki (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: It is widely agreed that the practices of clinicians should be based on the best available research evidence, but too often this evidence is not reliably disseminated to people who can make use of it. This ... -
A cross-sectional survey of supports for evidence-informed decision-making in healthcare organisations: a research protocol
Ouimet, Mathieu; Lavis, John N; Léon, Grégory; Ellen, Moriah E; Bédard, Pierre-Olivier; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Gagnon, Marie-Pierre (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: This protocol builds on the development of a) a framework that identified the various supports (i.e. positions, activities, interventions) that a healthcare organisation or health system can implement for ... -
Designing a rapid response program to support evidence-informed decision-making in the Americas region: using the best available evidence and case studies
Haby, Michelle M.; Chapman, Evelina; Clark, Rachel; Barreto, Jorge; Reveiz, Ludovic; Lavis, John N. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: The objective of this work was to inform the design of a rapid response program to support evidence-informed decision-making in health policy and practice for the Americas region. Specifically, we focus on the ... -
Developing a rapid-response program for health system decision-makers in Canada: findings from an issue brief and stakeholder dialogue
Wilson, Michael G; Lavis, John N; Gauvin, Francois-Pierre (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: There is currently no mechanism in place outside of government to provide rapid syntheses of the best available research evidence about problems, options and/or implementation considerations related to a specific ... -
Developing and refining the methods for a ‘one-stop shop’ for research evidence about health systems
Lavis, John N; Wilson, Michael G; Moat, Kaelan A; Hammill, Amanda C; Boyko, Jennifer A; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Flottorp, Signe (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Policymakers, stakeholders and researchers have not been able to find research evidence about health systems using an easily understood taxonomy of topics, know when they have conducted a comprehensive search ... -
Evaluating deliberative dialogues focussed on healthy public policy
Lavis, John N; Boyko, Jennifer A; Gauvin, Francois-Pierre (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Deliberative dialogues have recently captured attention in the public health policy arena because they have the potential to address several key factors that influence the use of research evidence in policymaking. ... -
Examining the use of health systems and policy research in the health policymaking process in Israel: views of researchers
Ellen, Moriah E.; Lavis, John N.; Shemer, Joshua (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: All too often, health policy and management decisions are made without making use of or consulting with the best available research evidence, which can lead to ineffective and inefficient health systems. One ... -
The global stock of research evidence relevant to health systems policymaking
Wilson, Michael G; Moat, Kaelan A; Lavis, John N (BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Policymakers and stakeholders need immediate access to many types of research evidence to make informed decisions about the full range of questions that may arise regarding health systems. Methods: We examined ... -
Health systems and policy research evidence in health policy making in Israel: what are researchers’ practices in transferring knowledge to policy makers?
Ellen, Moriah E; Lavis, John N; Sharon, Assaf; Shemer, Joshua (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Ensuring the use of research evidence in health system management and policy decisions is an important challenge in this century. Knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) has emerged as a paradigm to address the ... -
The impact of arthritis on the physical function of a rural Maya-Yucateco community and factors associated with its prevalence: a cross sectional, community-based study
Loyola-Sanchez, Adalberto; Richardson, Julie; Pelaez-Ballestas, Ingris; Alvarez-Nemegyei, José; Lavis, John N.; Wilson, Michael G.; Wilkins, Seanne (Springer London, 2015)This study aims to evaluate the impact of arthritis on the physical function of people living in a Maya-Yucateco rural community and to assess the association of known modifiable risk factors with the prevalence of overall ... -
Print media coverage of primary healthcare and related research evidence in South Africa
Akintola, Olagoke; Lavis, John N; Hoskins, Ryan (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: The news media is located at the nexus of the public and policy agendas and provides a window into issues concerning the public. Therefore, it could be a powerful tool for advocating for citizens’ health and ... -
A process evaluation accompanying an attempted randomized controlled trial of an evidence service for health system policymakers
Wilson, Michael G; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Haynes, R Brian; Hanna, Steven E; Raina, Parminder; Gruen, Russell; Ouimet, Mathieu; Lavis, John N (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: We developed an evidence service that draws inputs from Health Systems Evidence (HSE), which is a comprehensive database of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health ... -
Processes, contexts, and rationale for disinvestment: a protocol for a critical interpretive synthesis
Wilson, Michael G; Ellen, Moriah E; Lavis, John N; Grimshaw, Jeremy M; Moat, Kaelan A; Shemer, Joshua; Sullivan, Terry; Garner, Sarah; Goeree, Ron; Grilli, Roberto; Peffer, Justin; Samra, Kevin (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Practical solutions are needed to support the appropriate use of available health system resources as countries are continually pressured to ‘do more with less’ in health care. Increasingly, health systems and ... -
A scoping review about conference objectives and evaluative practices: how do we get more out of them?
Neves, Justin; Lavis, John Norman; Ranson, M Kent (BioMed Central, 2012)Large multi-day conferences have often been criticized as ineffective ways to improve social outcomes and to influence policy or practice. Unfortunately, many conference evaluations have also been inadequate in determining ...