Core principles for dissemination: Introducing Cochrane’s new Dissemination Checklist

The videos below introduce Cochrane’s new Dissemination Checklist. The Checklist is created to help people who produce (or who want to produce) dissemination products that present findings of Cochrane reviews (e.g. Plain Language Summaries, blogshots, podcasts, infographics, policy briefs). The aim of the Checklist is to help people make information that users find engaging, helps them understand the findings and supports the use of Cochrane evidence in decision making.

The video is from a recorded webinar delivered in October 2019, and covers the following:-

  • Brief review of the checklist items
  • How the checklist can be used in practice
  • Where to find further support and resources to improve dissemination products

Below you will find the videos from the webinar, together with accompanying slides to download [PDF].

Part 1: Background to the project
Part 2: Checklist and guidance

Part 1: Background to the project

Part 2: Checklist and guidance

Presenter bios:

Claire Glenton has carried out research and development work on the dissemination of Cochrane reviews for the last 20 years. Claire is director of Cochrane Norway, an EPOC review editor, EPOC’s plain language summary editor, and a co-author of several Cochrane reviews.

Sarah Rosenbaum is a designer and researcher at the Centre for Informed Health Choices at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She explores people’s experience of synthesized evidence and uses those findings to improve dissemination formats. She has co-developed summary of findings tables, plain language summaries format, and more recently sketches for a new format for Cochrane Reviews.

Stephanie Lagosky has experience practicing knowledge translation in a variety of settings, working with researchers, patients/consumers, clinicians and policy makers. At Cochrane, she is working on projects to help build internal capacity for people in the organization to do knowledge translation.

Marita Fønhus has carried out research and development work on the dissemination of Cochrane reviews For several years. Marita is a co-editor of Cochrane Norway, an EPOC review editor, and a co-author of several Cochrane reviews and other systematic reviews.

Additional materials

Download the slides from the webinar [PDF]