Structured Abstract

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Methods
  • Identification of Stakeholders/Users of Comparative Effectiveness Reviews
  • The Report Formats
  • The Questionnaire and Focus Groups
• Results
  • The Importance of Seeing What Changed
  • Using Gray “Highlighting” To Show Changes
  • Using Track Changes To Show Changes
  • Summarizing Findings in a Quantitative or Narrative Summary Table
  • A Skeletal Summary/Report: Tables and Figures With Little Free Text
  • Additional Issues Raised
• Conclusions, Limitations, and Discussion
• References
• Appendix A Focus Group Questionnaire 1
• Appendix B Focus Group Questionnaire 2
• Appendix C The 7 Versions of the Executive Summary for Which We Elicited Focus Group Feedback

Prepared for: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services¹, Contract No. 290-2007-10062-I. Prepared by: Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

Suggested citation:

Newberry SJ, Shekelle PG, Vaiana M, Motala A. Reporting the Findings of Updated Systematic Reviews of Comparative Effectiveness: How Do Users Want To View New Information? Research White Paper (Prepared by the Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-2007-10062-I). AHRQ Publication No. 13-EHC093-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. May 2013. www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/reports/final.cfm.

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