Abstract
Do evidence summaries increase health policy-makers' use of evidence from systematic reviews? A systematic review.
Highlights
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers
It is likely that evidence summaries are easier to understand than complete systematic reviews
Strategies to promote the use of evidence to decision makers are required, and evidence summaries have been suggested as a facilitator
Summary
Systematic reviews are important for decision makers. They offer many potential benefits but are often written in technical language, are too long, and do not contain contextual details which makes them hard to use for decision-making. Strategies to promote the use of evidence to decision makers are required, and evidence summaries have been suggested as a facilitator. Evidence summaries include policy briefs, briefing papers, briefing notes, evidence briefs, abstracts, summary of findings tables, and plain language summaries. There are many organizations developing and disseminating systematic review evidence summaries for different populations or subsets of decision makers. Evidence on the usefulness and effectiveness of systematic review summaries is lacking. We present an overview of the available evidence on systematic review evidence summaries
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