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A rapid priority setting exercise combining existing, emergent evidence with stakeholder knowledge identified broad topic uncertainties
The project aimed to rapidly identify priority topic uncertainties as a first step to identify future systematic review questions of pertinence to key international faecal incontinence (FI) stakeholders (patients, carers, healthcare professionals, policy makers and voluntary, community or social enterprise representatives). The paper aim is to share our methods, experience and learning with other groups […]
The Systematic Review Toolbox: keeping up to date with tools to support evidence synthesis
The Systematic Review (SR) Toolbox was developed in 2014 to collate tools that can be used to support the systematic review process but the breadth of evidence synthesis methodologies has expanded greatly since its inception. We updated the SR Toolbox in 2022 to reflect these changes and also briefly analysed included tools and guidance to […]
ScanMedicine: An online search system for medical innovation
ScanMedicine is a novel searching system dedicated to providing health care professionals, patients, carers, the public, decision- and policy-makers, and researchers with open access to the development pipeline underpinning health technology innovations. In the first phase of developing ScanMedicine, we have focused on capturing and consolidating clinical trial records hosted on national and international clinical […]
Covid-19 Diagnostics
Since March 2020, the NIHR Innovation Observatory’s Medical Devices team (NIHRIO MDx) has been applying advanced horizon scanning methodologies and tools to compile a diagnostic landscape of all SARS-CoV-2 tests (commercialised/ in development) for the diagnosis of COVID-19.
Covid-19 Therapeutics
This dashboard provides the user with data on interventions (medicinal products including vaccines) in clinical trials for treatment and/or prevention of COVID-19
