Are you an information professional passionate about supporting evidence-based healthcare?

The EAHIL Evidence-Based Information Group (EBIG) is the perfect place for professionals like you who are committed to advancing evidence-based information services in medical libraries and beyond.
The main aim of this group is to bring together and connect all EAHIL members who are interested and want to improve the quality of the search strategies of systematic reviews and other evidence-based products.
Proposed activities are:
● To support knowledge exchange by providing technical support (mailing list, …) and opportunities (webinars, …) to discuss problems, share information, experiences and best practices (e.g. discussing tactics on how to encourage researchers to include a reference librarian in their team writing systematic reviews for writing the literature search methods section of the paper or abstract).
● To provide and support continuing professional development for health librarians and researchers on topics related to systematic reviews and other evidence-based products (e.g. by providing tutorials/online material, sharing materials like PRISMA, …) in close collaboration with the TrEDMIL SIG.
● To appeal to the publishers of medical journals to consider the quality of Systematic Reviews and include better guidelines about methodological and reporting issues and advocate for inclusion of biomedical reference librarians as editors in the peer-review processes (e.g. importance of reference librarians as part of the research team, importance of peer-reviewing of search strategies, importance of compliance to related standards, …). Also journal editors and database providers should be approached.
● To develop strategies to improve the visibility of systematic reviews and other evidence-based products.
● To connect with other interest groups or projects and support the dissemination or development of international standards (e.g. use of registries of search strategies like PROSPERO, use of standard and checklists like PRESS or PRISMA, collaborate with the Systematic Review SIG of MLA; the Knowledge Synthesis Interest Group of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, …).

Read about the EAHIL Evidence-Based Information Group and its activities. There are many projects currently underway. Please see the project list for further details.

Co-chair: Jane Falconer
Co-chair: Thomas Vandendriessche
Co-secretary: Krizia Tuand
Co-secretary: Shona Kirtley