Health Science

Health Knowledge Network

Resources

Publications

These are high quality publications that have featured in HKN resource bulletins, or that we have used or produced in the course of HKN activities.

Communicating with Consumers and Carers (Report to the Victorian Quality Council (VQC)):

• Part 1 - Pilot of evidence-based selection of communication strategies to improve communication between consumers/carers and health services
• Part 2 - A guide for an evidence-informed approach to improving communication and participation in health care

Posters presented at the 2008 Freiburg Cochrane Colloquium on HKN activities:

• Education and support for improving the evaluation of consumer participation in hospitals
• Evaluation of Evidence Bulletin knowledge transfer

Tools

These are useful tools for researchers and healthcare professionals that have been used or produced in the course of HKN activities, in other Consumers and Communication Review Group work, and in support of EEP projects.

Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group resources
For more information visit the Review Group homepage

• Review Group Scope
• Taxonomy of outcomes
• Study Design Guide
• Study Quality Guide
• Powerpoint slides from seminar 'What to do when the evidence tells you something you don't want to know', Melbourne, March 2008
• Powerpoint slides from Sophie Hill's presentation on Health Literacy to the Department of Health and Ageing, November 2008

EEP resources

• Controlled-before-and-after (CBA) study design: description and examples
  • This contains a description of the CBA study design; a selection of studies indicative of three Department of Human Services policy levels; and a large selection of CBA studies included in Cochrane systematic reviews.
• A framework for evaluating consumer participation
  • This was included in the expression of interest document for EEP applicants in May 2007.
• Evaluation design; learning from EEP projects (presentation to DHS workshop, 14 August 2007).
• MAP of interventions, outcomes and tools
  • Presented at the November 2007 meeting of EEP projects at the Department of Human Services, Victoria. EEP MAP illustrates EEP-relevant consumer participation interventions; consumer, healthcare professional and organisational outcomes; and measurement tools.

EEP MAP and other EEP project information is also available on the DHS website.

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