Evidence-based practice is the gold standard and should be adhered to at all times—or should it?

Walker, David; Bukhari, Marwan

doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kex509

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“…International organisations such as the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), The United Nations (UN), and The European Union (EU) have had a prominent role in promoting and advocating for EIPM (see OECD, 2020). Hence, arguably, EIPM has become a 'gold standard' in public governance notably in normative terms (Walker & Bukhari, 2018). This has increased the need for evidence-and data-literate policymakers and public officials to ensure potential benefits of EIPM (i.e., informing a policy process with [scientific] evidence).…”

Section: Evidence-informed Policymaking (Eipm)mentioning

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Data Use in Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) as a Teaching Subject: Challenges and Pitfalls

Tkalec¹,

Umbach²

2022

Bridging the Gap: Empowering and Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference

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This article examines evidence-informed policymaking from a teaching perspective. It especially focuses on data use within it. Based on the authors’ practical experience, the article proposes a conceptual frame for designing teaching materials anchored in three dimensions: acquiring/possessing (data literacy) skills, understanding the benefits of evidence-informed policymaking, and creating channels for evidence-informed policymaking implementation. Moreover, it outlines challenges and pitfalls in developing such learning materials for data-driven evidence-informed policymaking. The findings suggest that the inherent weakness of evidence-informed policymaking understood as an approach to policymaking, i.e., its conceptual ambiguity, also influences the development of data-focused evidence-informed policymaking learning materials.

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Section: Evidence-informed Policymaking (Eipm)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Use in Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) as a Teaching Subject: Challenges and Pitfalls

Tkalec¹,

Umbach²

2022

Bridging the Gap: Empowering and Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference

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“…In diagnosis, rheumatic diseases are frequently defined by blurred boundaries. In management, many rheumatic diseases also rely heavily on clinical judgement, rather than the direct application of high-quality evidence [ 1 ]. They often do not offer the clarity of black and white.…”

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Navigating gaps in evidence to inform current and future practice in rheumatology

Liew

2023

Rheumatology Advances in Practice

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Of numbers, narratives and challenges: Data as evidence in 21st century policy-making

Umbach¹

2020

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This article1 offers reflections on the use of data as evidence in 21st century policy-making. It discusses the concept of evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) as well as the governance and knowledge effects of data as evidence. With this focus, it interlinks the analysis of statistics and politics. The paper first introduces the concept of EIPM and the impact of evidence use. Here it focusses on science and knowledge as resources in policy-making, on the institutionalisation of science advice and on the translation of information and knowledge into evidence. The second part of the article reflects on data as evidence. This part concentrates on abstract and concrete functions of data as governance tools in policy-making, on data as a robust form of evidence and on the effects of data on knowledge and governance. The third part highlights challenges for data as evidence in policy-making, among them, politicisation, transparency, and diversity as well as objectivity and contestation. Finally, the last part draws conclusions on the production and use of data as evidence in EIPM. Throughout the second part of the reflections, reference is made to Walter Radermacher’s 2019 matrix of actors and activities related to data, facts, and policy published in this journal.

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Evidence-based practice is the gold standard and should be adhered to at all times—or should it?

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Data Use in Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) as a Teaching Subject: Challenges and Pitfalls

Data Use in Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIPM) as a Teaching Subject: Challenges and Pitfalls

Navigating gaps in evidence to inform current and future practice in rheumatology

Of numbers, narratives and challenges: Data as evidence in 21st century policy-making

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