PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Alonso, Pablo TI - P010 Developing and evaluating communication strategies to support informed decisions and practice based on evidence (DECIDE) for health professionals AID - 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002293.10 DP - 2013 Aug 01 TA - BMJ Quality & Safety PG - A4--A4 VI - 22 IP - Suppl 1 4099 - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/Suppl_1/A4.3.short 4100 - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/Suppl_1/A4.3.full SO - BMJ Qual Saf2013 Aug 01; 22 AB - The DECIDE initiative, building on the work of GRADE, is exploring methods to ensure effective communication of evidence-based recommendations targeted at key stakeholders (healthcare professionals, policymakers, and managers, and patients and the general public). DECIDE will produce strategies for communicating recommendations that are being rigorously evaluated in diverse settings, and it will support the transfer of research into practice in healthcare systems globally. The methodology is an iterative process that includes; brainstorming, user feedback through user testing, surveys, trials and implementation and evaluation in real guidelines. All this is being done across a wide range of healthcare systems in Europe, North America, and other countries. The work with healthcare professionals is developing three strategies: 1) An electronic multilayered guideline format that presents the essential information that healthcare professionals tell us they need to understand and act on a recommendation; 2) An evidence to recommendation table for users: this is a summary table with the factors for moving from evidence to a recommendation and the justification for each recommendation; 3) A decision aid template to semi-automatically build decision aids linked to guidelines to be used at the point of care. For strategies 1 and 3 DECIDE is also collaborating with the MAGIC programme. These strategies will be implemented a guideline authoring tool that is being developed from GRADEpro (called the Guideline Development Tool, or GDT), and will also be implementable in other online guideline authoring tools, allowing guideline groups to decide which of these strategies to use when developing their guidelines. The GDT will be able to facilitate the full authoring of a typical guideline and allow the updating of these strategies when needed. Guideline outputs will be made available through multiple platforms (e.g., websites, smartphones and tablets apps). These tools will help to make guidelines better suited to the information needs of health professionals, policymakers and consumers across diverse healthcare settings in Europe and elsewhere.