1.Approaches to health research priority setting in the Philippines across the years.
Alain Jason A. GENERALE ; Reneepearl Kim P. SALES ; Teddy S. DIZON ; Alan B. FERANIL
Acta Medica Philippina 2019;53(3):220-223
BACKGROUND: As one of the research councils under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), health research priority setting has been the mandate of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) since its establishment in 1982. The development of the National Unified Health Research Agenda (NUHRA) convenes the major stakeholders for health in the country to establish the priorities for health research. The NUHRA aims to address the most urgent health issues in the country for the generation of solutions to the health concerns of the country.
OBJECTIVES AND METHOD: Through document review, this paper describes the approaches and lessons learned in research priority setting since the establishment of the Philippine National Health Research System.
RESULTS: The Philippines has employed a bottoms-up, top-down, and a combination of both approaches to develop its health research agenda.
CONCLUSION: The health research agenda-setting must consider evolving funding sources, its link to production of researches with high probability of knowledge translation to health technology innovation, and policy formulation. Measuring the impact of the NUHRA to the health systems and health situation of the country is a difficult assessment, but the gradual change in healthcare technology utilization and evidence-informed policies towards health equity can be a subjective measurement of the NUHRA's success.
Research ; Support Of Research ; Philippines
2.Association of educational interventions with clinician learning and ventilator-associated pneumonia patient outcomes: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
John Mark M GUTIÉ ; RREZ ; Allan L DUEÑ ; O ; Arnel E SONIDO ; Jerry A ABRIAM ; Emmanuel D PARAGAS JR. ; Alain Jason A GENERALE
Journal of Medicine University of Santo Tomas 2020;4(1):462-473
Recent studies have shown that educational interventions for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention may result in positive outcomes in intensive
care units. However, other studies investigating this
kind of intervention have produced inconsistent results. Thus this paper reports a protocol for systematic
review and planned meta-analysis to investigate the
association of instituted VAP educational interventions with clinician learning and patient outcomes.
In this review, the authors will identify relevant citations from electronic databases, reference lists, and
other sources; screen articles against predetermined
eligibility criteria; appraise each study using the
Cochrane Collaboration’s risk of bias assessment tools and combine acquired evidence using the meta-analytic approach. The results of this review are
crucial to assist clinicians and policy-makers in making well-informed decisions regarding VAP prevention practices for mechanically ventilated patients.
This review protocol followed the Preferred Reporting
Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses for
Protocols 2015 guidelines and was registered with
PROSPERO as CRD42016051561.
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated