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REA Toolkit

• What is an REA?
• Planning an REA
• How to do an REA
• REA existing publications
• REA references

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REA Toolkit

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Rapid Evidence Assessment Toolkit sitemap

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What is an REA?

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• Methods for reviewing evidence:
  • Literature review
  • Quick scoping review
  • Rapid Evidence Assessment
  • Full systematic review
  • Multi arm systematic review
  • Review of reviews

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Planning an REA

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• Form an REA team
  • Form an REA team: forming the team
  • Form an REA team: involving users
    • Form an REA team: when to involve users
• Resources
• Contracting out an REA
• Contracting out an REA: advantages
• Contracting out an REA: risks
• Contracting out an REA: factors to consider
• REA in-house

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How to do an REA

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• Formulating the REA question
  • Impact questions
  • Non-impact questions
• Conceptual framework
• Writing a protocol
• Defining inclusion and exclusion criteria
• Search strategy
  • Search strategy types
  • Search strategy - begin searching
  • Search strategy - how will it be rapid?
• Data collection
• Screening and selecting studies
  • Screening and selecting studies: how will it be rapid?
• Describing studies
• Assessing quality and relevance of studies - impact questions
• Assessing quality and relevance of studies: non-impact questions
• Resources for appraising studies
• Synthesis of findings - stages
  • Synthesis of findings - quantitative
  • Synthesis of findings - qualitative
• Communicating findings

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REA toolkit index

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