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Arash Rashidian
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 345
Citations - 11975
Arash Rashidian is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 336 publications receiving 9780 citations. Previous affiliations of Arash Rashidian include Ardabil University of Medical Sciences & University of York.
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Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes
Louise Forsetlund,Arild Bjørndal,Arash Rashidian,Gro Jamtvedt,Mary Ann O’Brien,Fredric M. Wolf,Dave Davis,Jan Odgaard-Jensen,Andrew D Oxman +8 more
TL;DR: Educational meetings alone or combined with other interventions, can improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes for the patients and is most likely to be small and similar to other types of continuing medical education, such as audit and feedback, and educational outreach visits.
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Using qualitative evidence in decision making for health and social interventions: an approach to assess confidence in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses (GRADE-CERQual)
Simon Lewin,Claire Glenton,Heather Menzies Munthe-Kaas,Benedicte Carlsen,Christopher J. Colvin,Metin Gülmezoglu,Jane Noyes,Andrew Booth,Ruth Garside,Arash Rashidian +9 more
TL;DR: Simon Lewin and colleagues present a methodology for increasing transparency and confidence in qualitative research synthesis with a focus on quantitative research synthesis.
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Applying GRADE-CERQual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings: introduction to the series
Simon Lewin,Simon Lewin,Andrew Booth,Claire Glenton,Heather Menzies Munthe-Kaas,Arash Rashidian,Arash Rashidian,Megan Wainwright,Meghan A. Bohren,Özge Tunçalp,Christopher J. Colvin,Ruth Garside,Benedicte Carlsen,Etienne V. Langlois,Jane Noyes +14 more
TL;DR: The rationale and conceptual basis for CERQual, the aims of the approach, how the approach was developed, and its main components are described, including the purpose and structure of this series and the growing role for qualitative evidence in decision-making are discussed.
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Systematic review and evaluation of physiological track and trigger warning systems for identifying at-risk patients on the ward
Haiyan Gao,Ann McDonnell,David A Harrison,Tracey Moore,Sheila Adam,Kathleen J.R. Daly,Lisa Esmonde,D. R. Goldhill,Gareth Parry,Arash Rashidian,Christian P Subbe,Sheila Harvey +11 more
TL;DR: A wide variety of TTs were in use, with little evidence of reliability, validity and utility, and Sensitivity was poor, which might be due in part to the nature of the physiology monitored or to the choice of trigger threshold.
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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of lay health worker programmes to improve access to maternal and child health: qualitative evidence synthesis
Claire Glenton,Christopher J. Colvin,Benedicte Carlsen,Alison Swartz,Simon Lewin,Jane Noyes,Arash Rashidian +6 more
TL;DR: Lay health workers in high income countries mainly offered promotion, counselling and support, while in low and middle income countries, LHWs offered similar services but sometimes also distributed supplements, contraceptives and other products, and diagnosed and treated children with common childhood diseases.