Rapid Evidence Report

Rapid Evidence Reports include: A clear statement of the issue and the background to the issue/problem; A description of the scope and nature of the pertinent English-language scientific literature from the past five years; A summary of the principal features of the available evidence – points of consensus, points of disagreement, areas of uncertainty or silence on some or all of the followi [...] Rather, a Rapid Evidence Report provides decision makers with a summary of the scope and nature of the recent scientific literature on the topic in question, an initial assessment of the strengths and gaps in this literature, and a review of the key points of agreement and disagreement among researchers. [...] Recognizing the importance of patient feedback and the growing use of digital approaches, our health system partners in the Contextualized Health Research Synthesis Program (CHRSP) asked us to review the evidence and produce a Rapid Evidence Report on the effectiveness of digital surveys in capturing patient experience. [...] In any event, the questions posed on surveys should aim to achieve: content validity (the extent to which a scale or survey measures all the important concepts associated with the domain of interest); criterion validity (the measure’s correlation with other measures of the domain of interest); and construct validity (the ability of the scale to accurately measure the domain of interest) (26) [...] The Reliability of Surveys Reliability refers to the ability of a research instrument to produce consistent and reproducible results with repeated measurements – that is, the ability of survey questions to elicit the same type of information each time they are used under the same conditions (1).