The Catalogue of Best Practices is a listing of interventions that have been deemed to be best practices, by researchers or organizations that have conducted systematic reviews of the relevant literature. The Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre (OIPRC) has selected these based upon their adherence to a set of screening criteria developed by the Advisory Committee.

The initial catalogue features a comprehensive set of practices identified and reviewed by Ontario researchers with funding from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). OIPRC has partnered with the ONF to abstract and web-enable these best practices from their initial four compendium volumes of best practices in neurotrauma prevention. Additional practices will be added to this catalogue in the coming months.

All entries in the catalogue are presented in terms of the BRIO framework and criteria initially developed by Volpe, Lewko and Batra (2002). This evaluative framework analyzes programs in terms of their Background, Resources, Implementation and Outcomes.

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The criteria are defined, in brief, as follows and presented in order of priority as determined by the committee:

Theory: Premise underlying the program is founded on sound theoretical ideas which themselves are based on valid injury prevention ideas and which extend from existing knowledge.


Outcome: Program realized the expected or desired results based on the underlying hypothesis – essentially, the results obtained as a result of the program being implemented.


Breadth: Evidence, excluding the program under examination, which forms a broader whole of the research in the relevant injury domain. (e.g. Systematic review(s) or multiple studies with or without meta-analysis have also been conducted to assess the practice implemented in the program.)


Methodology: Program adheres to established practices of rigorous scientific methods to produce the strongest possible unbiased results within the context of the domain and research question(s) being examined.


Cost Effectiveness: The overall impression that the cost of the study or program interventions were practical and not prohibitive.


Portability: Sufficient details and guidelines are provided within the program design and evaluation to enable its implementation or adoption in other settings or environments.


Sustainability: Program can be self-sustaining beyond the initial pilot project conducted.

Note that in addition to the above, each practice was also selected according to the following criterion:

Overall Impression: All things considered and using your best judgement, would you recommend the program for use in a public health setting, strongly, moderately or weakly?

For additional details on these criteria, as well as their rating levels, please select the following link:

Download OIPRCBestPracticesCriteria.pdf

See also,
Volpe, R., Lewko, J., and Batra, A. (2002). A Compendium of Effective, Evidence-based Best Practices in Prevention of Neurotrauma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.