WG1: Dissemination and Implementation
Leader: Eduard Baladia
Deputy Leader: Judy Makhoul
Objectives:
- Raise awareness and acceptance of the importance of the challenge and the EBR solution among all relevant stakeholders
- Formulate implications of an EBR approach for representatives of Clinical Health Researchers (CHRs), patients, and Clinical Research Support Stakeholders (CRSSs)
Activity groups:
WG1-A1: Implications for Ethics Committees (Simon Kolstoe)
WG1-A2: Implications for Funding Agencies (Matt Westmore)
WG1-A3: Implications for Medical Journals (Robert Prill)
WG1-A13: Implications for Patients and Clinicians (Marleen Corremans)
WG2: Development and Teaching of Methods to be Evidence-Based when doing Clinical Research.
Leader: Miloslav Klugar
Deputy Leader: Jitka Klugarová
Objectives:
- Identify the best design and pedagogic approach for an online EBR course
- Identify barriers and facilitators related to being evidence-based in the conduct of research
- Teach clinical Early Career Investigators (ECIs) and senior CHRs how to overcome these obstacles
Activity groups:
WG2-A4: Training Schools (Hrund Thorsteinsson)
WG2-A5: Delphi study related to Training Schools (Malgorzata Bala)
WG2-A6: EVBRES conferences/seminars (Program Management Group)
WG2-A7: EVBRES online Handbook (Jane Andreasen)
WG3: Improving Efficiency in Producing and Updating Systematic Reviews
Leader: Raluca Sfetcu (formerly Barbara Nußbaumer-Streit)
Deputy Leader: René Spijker
Objectives:
- Foster collaboration between SR specialists, Librarians & Information Specialists, engineers, programmers, CHRs and patients to implement tools to increase the efficiency of updating and preparing SRs
- Describe the state-of-the-art working processes and technologies used when preparing a SR, and to identify working processes and technologies that could be improved
Activity group:
WG3-A8: Improving efficiency of SRs – delays in process (Barbara Nußbaumer-Streit)
WG3-A14: Investigating which solutions speed up the process (René Spijker [lead]; Lisa Affengruber [deputy])
WG3-A15: Prioritisation (Mersiha Mahmić-Kaknjo)
WG4: Meta-Research on EBR Implementation
Leader: Livia Puljak
Objectives:
- Identify ways to evaluate the use of an EBR approach in clinical research practice and among CRSSs
- Initiate the implementation of these evaluation methods
- Test the suggested methods to monitor CHRs’ use of the EBR approach
Activity groups:
WG4-A9: Standard for monitoring clinical research (Malgorzata Bala)
WG4-A10: Executing parts of the standard for monitoring (Dawid Pieper)
