Table 1 Details of key sections in Web CIPHER
From: Usage of an online tool to help policymakers better engage with research: Web CIPHER
Section | Update frequency | Content | Selection criteria for content |
|---|---|---|---|
Hot topics | Daily | Short blurbs linking to news stories relevant to health policy | Media monitoring with keywords of interest set up via Google Alerts. Keywords include the following: “health quality and safety”, “aboriginal health”, “evidence in policy”, “research evidence”, “health and medical research”, “e-health”, “linked health data”, “ageing”, “public health”. |
Daily scan of these alerts for relevant stories of interest to the network, with an emphasis on intervention research, program reviews, locally-relevant news, or examples of evidence-based policy. | |||
Research updates | Fortnightly | Summaries of systematic reviews, research papers and reports, with links to full articles | Fortnightly scan of relevant journals and sources for systematic reviews, research articles and reports. |
Journals include the “Medical Journal of Australia”, “Milbank Quarterly”, “Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health”, “Journal of Health Services Research”. | |||
Other sources include email alerts from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Australian Policy Online, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Primary Health Care Research Information Service, the Bureau of Health Information and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Cochrane Collaboration. | |||
Sources are reviewed for research, reviews and reports of interest, with an emphasis on public health intervention research, program evaluation, locally-relevant research and research translation. | |||
Events | Monthly | Summaries of upcoming events of interest to health policymakers | Monthly scan of organisations of interest for relevant events, including the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Australian Policy Online, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Primary Health Care Research Information Service, the Bureau of Health Information, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Cochrane Collaboration. |
Also reviewed are organisations represented by members, in particular those listed on this page: https://cipher.org.au/the-web-cipher-community/. | |||
Multimedia | Monthly | Videos, audio recordings and presentations of interest to health policymakers | Monthly scan of email alerts from organisations: the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Australian Policy Online, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Research Council, the Primary Health Care Research Information Service, the Bureau of Health Information, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Cochrane Collaboration. |
Also scanned are organisations represented by members, in particular those listed on this page: https://cipher.org.au/the-web-cipher-community/. | |||
Blogs | Monthly-quarterly | 500-word conversational-style articles written by health leaders, focusing on their area of expertise, with lessons for policymakers | Quarterly meetings with management team to agree on potential topics and contributors. Pitch sent to contributor, and article written by contributor in consultation with senior staff member at the Sax Institute to ensure tone and style matches Web CIPHER requirements. |
Community | As required | Bulletin board where users can post information for other community members, such as new research, jobs or opportunities | User-driven. |
Research portal | As required | Links to sources of high-quality research and data, such as the Cochrane Library, the Campbell Collaboration, health-evidence.ca, Eppi-CENTRE, NIHR Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. | Updated as required only. Sources are those identified as high quality by CIPHER investigators and Web CIPHER users. |