Deirdre Beecher

Publications

• 1.90

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  Presenting evidence-based health information for people with multiple sclerosis: the IN-DEEP project protocol.

  Sophie Hill, Graziella Filippini, Anneliese Synnot, Michael Summers, Deirdre Beecher, Cinzia Colombo, Paola Mosconi, Mario A Battaglia, Sue Shapland, Richard H Osborne, Melanie Hawkins

  BMC medical informatics and decision making. 03/2012; 12:20.

  ABSTRACT: Increasingly, evidence-based health information, in particular evidence from systematic reviews, is being made available to lay audiences, in addition to health professionals. Research efforts have focused on different formats for the lay presentation of health information. However, there ... [more] ABSTRACT: Increasingly, evidence-based health information, in particular evidence from systematic reviews, is being made available to lay audiences, in addition to health professionals. Research efforts have focused on different formats for the lay presentation of health information. However, there is a paucity of data on how patients integrate evidence-based health information with other factors such as their preferences for information and experiences with information-seeking. The aim of this project is to explore how people with multiple sclerosis (MS) integrate health information with their needs, experiences, preferences and values and how these factors can be incorporated into an online resource of evidence-based health information provision for people with MS and their families. This project is an Australian-Italian collaboration between researchers, MS societies and people with MS. Using a four-stage mixed methods design, a model will be developed for presenting evidence-based health information on the Internet for people with MS and their families. This evidence-based health information will draw upon systematic reviews of MS interventions from The Cochrane Library. Each stage of the project will build on the last. After conducting focus groups with people with MS and their family members (Stage 1), we will develop a model for summarising and presenting Cochrane MS reviews that is integrated with supporting information to aid understanding and decision making. This will be reviewed and finalised with people with MS, family members, health professionals and MS Society staff (Stage 2), before being uploaded to the Internet and evaluated (Stages 3 and 4). This project aims to produce accessible and meaningful evidence-based health information about MS for use in the varied decision making and management situations people encounter in everyday life. It is expected that the findings will be relevant to broader efforts to provide evidence-based health information for patients and the general public. The international collaboration also permits exploration of cultural differences that could inform international practice.

• Comparative efficacy and acceptability of immunomodulators and immunosuppressants for multiple sclerosis: overview of Cochrane systematic reviews and multiple-treatments meta-analysis (Protocol).

  Filippini G, Vacchi L, D'Amico R, Di Pietrantonj C, Beecher D, Salanti G.

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2011, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD008933. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008933. 01/2011;

• Treatment information-seeking by people with multiple sclerosis in the internet age: Stage 1 findings of the IN-DEEP project. Abstracts of the 19th Cochrane Colloquium. October 19-22, 2011, Madrid, Spain.

  Hill S, Filippini G, Summers M, Beecher D, Synnot A, Mosconi P, Shapland S, Colombo C, Baroni I, Osborne R, Traversa S.

  Cochrane database of Systematic Reviews, Supplement 2011: Art No.: CD000003. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD000003. 01/2011;

• Methodological filters for the identification of delayed cross-sectional studies. Abstracts of the 19th Cochrane Colloquium. October 19-22, 2011, Madrid, Spain.

  Noel-Storr A, Beecher D.

  Cochrane database of Systematic Reviews, Supplement 2011: Art No.: CD000003. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD000003. 01/2011;
• 5.65

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  Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in persons with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI).

  Filippini G, Casazza G, Bellatorre A-G, Lista C, Falcone C, Duca P, Beecher D, Costantino G, Zamboni G, Frisoni G.

  Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online). 01/2011;

• Integrating and deriving evidence, experiences and preferences (IN-DEEP): developing research-based health information applicable to decision making and self-management by people with multiple sclerosis. Abstracts of the Joint Cochrane and Campbell Colloq

  Filippini G, Beecher D, Simi S, Mosconi P, Colombo C, Battaglia M, Summers M, Shapland S, Osborne R, Hill S.

  Cochrane database of Systematic Reviews, Supplement 2010: Art No.: CD000002. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD000002L. 01/2010;