title: Systematic reviews on child welfare services: identifying and disseminating the evidence.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evidence-based practice is at an early stage of uptake within child welfare services. To facilitate well-informed decisions, we disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries on a website (http://www.r-bup.no).
  
  
  METHODS
  We developed and implemented our dissemination strategy through seven steps: (1) systematic literature search; (2) selection of relevant SRs; (3) assembly of an advisory board; (4) selection of child welfare SRs relevant to Norway; (5) prioritization of the included SRs; (6) development of a plain language summary (PLS) after feedback from the advisory board; and (7) implementation of website.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 9266 potentially relevant records were screened and 120 SRs were included. The advisory board was assembled from local policymakers, practitioners, researchers, carers and consumers. The advisory board members independently ranked the 120 SRs according to relevance and prioritized 20 SRs that were written up into the PLS. The format of the PLS was tested and agreed with the board members. A website was developed and the PLSs were published starting September 2014.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We think that the PLSs will be valuable resources to practitioners and it will be easily accessible to caregivers and consumers. This knowledge will inform research priorities and practice in Norway, leading the way to the use of evidence-based decisions in local child welfare services.
authors.affiliation: Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Hege
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kornør
authors.affiliation: Enhance Reviews Ltd., Wantage, UK.
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.affiliation: Enhance Reviews Ltd., Wantage, UK.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maayan
authors.affiliation: Enhance Reviews Ltd., Wantage, UK.
authors.forename: Karla
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Soares-Weiser
authors.affiliation: Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Arild
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bjørndal
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009664:Norway; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
keywords: child welfare; dissemination; evidence-based practice; knowledge translation; plain language summary; systematic review