The Canadian Best Practices Portal is designed to be your first step to planning health-related programs. The Portal is a virtual front door to community and population health interventions related to chronic disease prevention and health promotion, including injury.
On Tuesday November 18, 2008, the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre released three Evidence-Based Synthesis Practice Documents on the following topics:
Alcohol Related Injury Download file
Falls Across the Lifespan Download file
Sports and Recreation Injuries Download file
The purpose of these documents are to inform Ontario public health professionals and their community partners of evidence-informed practice for the implementation of the Prevention of Injury and Substance Misuse standard of the new Ontario Public Health Standards and Protocols, released October 31, 2008. These documents are based upon earlier systematic literature reviews conducted by the Ontario Injury Prevention Resource Centre staff in 2007-2008. The earlier reviews are available by request from the Resource Centre.
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.
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.
See,
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.
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.
