Grant: Operating Grant: SPOR - Guidelines and Systematic Reviews

Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario); Université Laval; The College of Family Physicians of Canada (Mississauga, Ont.); Cochrane IPD NMA Methods Group (London, UK); Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (Toronto); Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario); Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (Calgary, Alberta); Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS); Diabetes Canada (Toronto, Ontario); Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation (Ontario); Michael Smith Health Research BC; National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (Toronto, Ontario); Government of Nunavut Health Centre; Ontario Health - Health Quality Ontario (Toronto); Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (Toronto, Ontario); Osteoporosis Canada (Toronto, Ontario); The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada, Ottawa; McMaster University; McMaster University; Monash University, Clayton Campus (Australia); Ontario Health - CCO - Cancer Care Ontario (Toronto); Ontario Health - CCO - Cancer Care Ontario (Toronto); Adelaide University (Australia); World Health Organization (Switzerland); Bond University (Australia); University of Alberta; University of Calgary; University of Calgary; University of Saskatchewan; Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (Ottawa); University of Toronto; Unity Health Toronto; Women's College Hospital (Toronto)

Capacity-Building; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Dissemination; Implementation; Knowledge Synthesis; Knowledge Translation; Mentorship; Patient Engagement; Patient-Oriented Research; Systematic Reviews

Our vision is to strengthen the Canadian healthcare system by making sure people have the right information at the right time to make a health decision. Our network (called Reach) includes 176 members, including patients, healthcare providers, policy-makers, and teams of researchers across a range of health conditions and research with representation of all regions of Canada. Our goal is to respond to research ideas (or queries) posed by patients, policy-makers, healthcare managers, and other decision-makers (who we call knowledge users) by providing them with research results to address their decision-making needs. We have capacity to respond to our knowledge users in English and French, as well as mechanisms to address standard (more than 3 months) and rapid (3 months or less) responses to queries, addressing decision-making needs. Our network includes 37 junior, 52 mid-career, and 28 senior investigators with extensive experience responding to relevant knowledge users in Canada, as well as advancing the science of our core research methods. Patients, researchers, and other knowledge users are involved at all levels of our leadership and governance. We are confident that our team will improve patient care, inform policy and practice, strengthen our healthcare system, and increase efficiency by responding to at least 100 queries posed by patients and other knowledge users over the 5-year term of our funding.

Tricco, Andrea C; Abbott, John G; Barker, Kim; Beben, Nicole; Clifford, Tammy J; Gall Casey, Carolyn; Hayes, Anne; Proctor, Andrea; Teare, Gary F; Abou-Setta, Ahmed M; Clement, Fiona Mary; Colquhoun, Heather; Curran, Janet; Godfrey, Christina M; Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee; LeBlanc, Annie; Li, Linda C; Moffitt, Pertice M; Moher, David; Straus, Sharon E