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University of York
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)

http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/

The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) will provide:

  • Up-to-date information on new findings and research in the fields associated with information prescriptions
  • A telephone and email search service to identify the best research evidence on the effects and costs of interventions
  • Emails of relevant new Hitting the Headlines stories on request.

Up-to-date information on new findings and research

The consortium is providing support to the pilots in various different ways. In this uncharted field, one of these involves the provision of up-to-date information about what is being uncovered through research. This will be based on a large updating search at the beginning of the project, regular systematic searches of the literature through the life of the project and specific one-off searches to answer particular evidence questions.

Information produced by the regular searches will be passed to the consortium who will make it available on the project website each month. The data sent will comprise bibliographic information and links to abstracts (where available). Where abstracts are not available CRD will try to provide brief summaries.

A telephone and email search service

CRD receives funding from the NIHR for an enquiry service that carries out searches of the effects and costs of interventions for health care professionals in England and Wales. Members of the Information Prescribing pilot project can make use of this service for brief searches.

In addition to this basic service, we can also offer, under the funding CRD receives for the Information Prescribing pilot, additional time for more extensive or in-depth searches. This funding is limited so enquiries will be handled on a first come first served basis.

'Hitting the Headlines' e-mail service

CRD is commissioned to produce 'Hitting the Headlines' by Connecting for Health. Hitting the Headlines offers an analysis of the evidence behind selected health stories reported in national newspapers. Summaries of news stories are posted on the NLH website within 48 hours of newspaper publication. Its purpose is to ensure that health professionals and the public are better informed about the accuracy of reporting of research in the press. http://www.library.nhs.uk/Default.aspx