High Quality Information
High quality information focuses on the needs of your audience and answers their questions by synthesizing and summarising the best available evidence.
Our Information Scientists have been working in the Evidence-Based Health Care field in Oxford since the mid-90s. They have led national and international projects in a variety of areas including cancer, mental health, diabetes and drug addiction, and they have a wealth of experience in developing high quality information to meet the needs of the general public and health and social care professionals.
We can support you in developing a more evidence-based information strategy for your organisation, or you can simply hand over the responsibility to us and we can produce your health information for you using our independent and reliable methods.
Producing evidence-based health information
We can ensure that your health information is accessible, usable and reliable, thereby answering the questions of your audience in an unbiased and user-friendly way.
Most health organisations claim to produce evidence-based health information, but there is actually a huge variation in the quality of material available. Working with us will ensure that your content production methodology adheres to the key principles of user needs analysis, systematic literature searching and sifting, critical appraisal and content evaluation.
We can ensure that your health information is accessible, usable and reliable, thereby answering the questions of your audience in an unbiased and user-friendly way.
Needs analysis
You can’t underestimate the importance of finding out what you audience need to know. All too often, health information is produced without first asking the end-user what they want, and of course this will frequently result in irrelevant and unusable content.
We have had great success over the years by conducting user needs analyses which capture the information needs and information seeking behaviour of a specific group of people. This valuable data can feed directly into the strategic development of your information or web site, thereby maximising the relevance of your approach.
Supporting your information strategy
Increasingly, organisations are asking us to help them write strategic documents that describe the detailed processes required to produce and disseminate high quality information. These strategies are not dry and lifeless documents left to gather dust on a shelf, but practical and constantly evolving work plans that can be used by your information team on a daily basis.
We can help you update your existing information strategy, or start from scratch to produce a new methodology that guarantees the quality of your information and the skillsets of your staff well into the future.
