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. 2020 Dec:114:256-262.
doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.08.021. Epub 2020 Sep 6.

The CEEDER database of evidence reviews: An open-access evidence service for researchers and decision-makers

Ko Konno  1 , Samantha H Cheng  2 , Jacqualyn Eales  3 , Geoff Frampton  4 , Christian Kohl  5 , Barbara Livoreil  6 , Biljana Macura  7 , Bethan C O'Leary  8   9 , Nicola P Randall  10 , Jessica J Taylor  11 , Paul Woodcock  12 , Andrew S Pullin  1
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The CEEDER database of evidence reviews: An open-access evidence service for researchers and decision-makers

Ko Konno et al. Environ Sci Policy. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

Evidence-informed decision-making aims to deliver effective actions informed by the best available evidence. Given the large quantity of primary literature, and time constraints faced by policy-makers and practitioners, well-conducted evidence reviews can provide a valuable resource to support decision-making. However, previous research suggests that some evidence reviews may not be sufficiently reliable to inform decisions in the environmental sector due to low standards of conduct and reporting. While some evidence reviews are of high reliability, there is currently no way for policy-makers and practitioners to quickly and easily find them among the many lower reliability ones. Alongside this lack of transparency, there is little incentive or support for review authors, editors and peer-reviewers to improve reliability. To address these issues, we introduce a new online, freely available and first-of-its-kind evidence service: the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Database of Evidence Reviews (CEEDER: www.environmentalevidence.org/ceeder). CEEDER aims to transform communication of evidence review reliability to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners through independent assessment of key aspects of the conduct, reporting and data limitations of available evidence reviews claiming to assess environmental impacts or the effectiveness of interventions relevant to policy and practice. At the same time, CEEDER will provide support to improve the standards of future evidence reviews and support evidence translation and knowledge mobilisation to help inform environmental decision-making.

Keywords: Critical appraisal; Decision support tool; Evidence synthesis; Evidence-based; Policy making; Risk of bias.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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CEEDER logic model. Evidence reviews are collated, assessed and indexed in an open-access database for decision-makers and researchers.
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Workflow of CEEDER.
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