Summary

Background

Owners, providers and users of the Norwegian health care and welfare services seek answers to a variety of research questions. We at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) address some of these by producing our own systematic reviews and HTA reports. These are, however, only a small share of all systematic reviews produced worldwide. In 2010 it was estimated that on average, 11 systematic reviews are published every day![1].

In addition to producing systematic reviews, we at the NIPH publish our own summaries of systematic reviews with themes and results that may be of interest to owners, providers and users of the Norwegian health care and welfare services. These 2-page summaries are called «Briefly summarised».

[1] Bastian H, Glasziou P, Chalmers I. Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up? PLoS Medicine2010;7(9):e1000326. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000326.

See the full project description at Cristin for more information about results, researchers, contact information etc.

Project participants

Project leader

Marita Sporstøl Fønhus, Avdeling for global helse, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Project participants

Kristin Thuve Dahm, Avdeling for vurdering av tiltak, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Therese Kristine Dalsbø, Avdeling for vurdering av tiltak, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Related projects

• Cochrane Norway
• Norwegian satellite of Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)
• Evidence-base for shared decision making tools.