How to develop, publish and dynamically update a trustworthy evidence summary through the MAGIC authoring and publication platform

Workshop category: 

  • Editorial processes and supporting review authors
Date and Location

Date: 

Sunday 16 September 2018 - 14:00 to 15:30

Location: 

Lowther
Contact persons and facilitators

Contact person:

Thomas Agoritsas

Facilitators:

Vandvik P1, Lytvyn L2
1 Norwegian Institute of Public Health and MAGIC Foundation, Norway
2 McMaster University, Canada
Target audience

Target audience: 

Review authors, guideline developers, and consumers with an interest in developing evidence summaries, recommendations, and decision aids

Level of difficulty: 

Intermediate
Type of workshop

Type of workshop : 

Training
Abstract

Abstract:

Background:
Systematic reviewers face challenges in the creation, dissemination and updating of trustworthy evidence summaries, which have downstream impact on guidelines and practice. To address these challenges Cochrane has entered into a partnership with MAGIC (www.magicproject.org), within an emerging digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem. One goal is to explore how use of the MAGIC authoring and publication platform (www.magicapp.org) could also bring added value to Cochrane Review Groups, by being directly linked to other platforms for systematic reviewing (e.g. Covidence and RevMan) and downstream guideline development in the evidence ecosystem.

Objectives:
1) To demonstrate how MAGICapp works for clinicians and patients, with trustworthy recommendations, evidence summaries and decision aids, as exemplified through the BMJ Rapid Recommendations project for practice-changing evidence.
2) To introduce the process of developing, publishing and dynamically updating a trustworthy evidence summary from Cochrane systematic reviews, with the GRADE system and MAGICapp.
3) To offer hands-on experience of using MAGICapp in the creation and dynamic updating of an evidence summary, with feedback from systematic review authors, having piloted MAGICapp.

Description:
1) The workshop will open with an example from BMJ Rapid Recommendations, to exemplify how MAGICapp works for systematic reviewers and guideline panels in a collaborative network by rapidly responding to potentially practice-changing evidence.
2) Participants will then split into groups and play with a published BMJ Rapid Recommendation, exploring new publication formats in the BMJ and multilayered presentation formats in MAGICapp, such as GRADE evidence summaries from systematic reviews and consultation decision aids. Keynote discussion will follow.
3) Participants will then log into MAGICapp as authors and simulate a situation with an updated Cochrane Review warranting dynamic updating of the evidence summary and recommendations, using the published BMJ Rapid Recommendation as an example. They will experience the end result published on a variety of devices through the MAGICapp. In a final keynote discussion user experience of the MAGICapp will be discussed.
Attachments

Attachments: 

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Relevance to patients and consumers: 

MAGIC has a specific focus on how to involve patients and citizens at each step in an emerging evidence ecosystem, from evidence production through evidence synthesis and guideline creation and dissemination, followed by active implementation and evaluation of impact on practice and outcomes that matter to patients. We include patients actively in systematic reviews and guidelines. A pertinent example is our BMJ Rapid Recommendations project which will be presented in the workshop. Cochrane is learning from this project currently, also in terms of new ways of actively engaging with patients.