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SUMMARY:The relevance of relevance and burden of sensitivity : understandi
 ng the problems of searching for evidence on complex topics - Suzy Paisley
 \, Senior Research Fellow Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS)\, S
 chool of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)\, University of Sheffield
DTSTART:20151104T130000Z
DTEND:20151104T140000Z
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CONTACT:Paula Frampton
DESCRIPTION:The challenges of evidence-based policy making in areas such a
 s public health\, social care\, education and criminal justice are located
  in the complexity of the problems addressed and the prominence of methods
  derived from evidence-based medicine which were originally developed for 
 assessing well-defined clinical interventions.\nThe retrieval of evidence 
 on complex topics is identified as being particularly problematic. The app
 lication of established systematic review search methods is difficult due 
 to the interdisciplinary nature of many of the topics under review\, the a
 bsence of clearly defined questions\, the dynamic process of sense-making 
 involved in reaching an understanding of complex phenomena and the wide ra
 nge of direct and indirect evidence required to address complex decision p
 roblems.\nDifficulties with searching have typically been addressed using 
 pragmatic coping strategies to make the search process more manageable. Th
 ese may be judged acceptable on a project by project basis but taken as a 
 whole they could be judged as making the search methods available to us me
 thodologically vulnerable. Looking beyond search methods as a set of proce
 dures it is possible to identify a methodological gap between the theoreti
 cal information retrieval model that underpins established search methods 
 and the tasks involved in reviewing complex topics. This talk explores thi
 s methodological gap and seeks solutions from the wider discipline of info
 rmation science.\n\n_Suzy Paisley is a Senior Research Fellow and is Head 
 of the Information Resources Group at ScHARR\, University of Sheffield. Sh
 e has extensive experience of searching for evidence to inform policy deci
 sion-making in a wide range of health related areas. Previously she has be
 en the Managing Director of two of ScHARR’s NICE assessment programmes t
 o inform Technology Appraisal and Public Health guidance. Her research int
 erests focus on the development of search methods for decision-analytic mo
 dels of cost-effectiveness and systematic reviews of complex topics._
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, Institute of Public Health\, Forvie Site\, R
 obinson Way\, Cambridge CB2 0SR
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