This online platform run by Evidence Aid provides plain language summaries of systematic reviews on research and evidence-based interventions for prevention and treatment of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). It complements Evidence Aid’s regular activities aimed at providing decision-makers with evidence on how to prepare for and respond to emergencies.
The collection of summaries of high-quality systematic reviews provides policy analysts and decision-makers in the health sector with easy access to the latest evidence on what works and what might not work in the global response to COVID-19.
The initiative operates on five channels: a project website, Facebook,Instagram,LinkedIn,and Twitter. The team publishes its summaries on the project website, with an emphasis on adding reviews that are up-to-date and likely to be most relevant to decision-makers. The reach is amplified by sharing the content across the other outlets. The summaries are available in eight languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
An international team of volunteers who have a wide variety of backgrounds, and include medical students, information specialists, health care practitioners and academic researchers, including professors in various disciplines engage in the distillation of systematic reviews into plain language summaries. To date, they have reviewed more than 900 systematic reviews from which over 580 summaries have been produced.
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