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We know less about evidence utilisation in local government across a range of sectors.
The absence of robust evaluation evidence showing that evidence utilisation actually leads to better outcomes is widely admitted.
The evidence utilisation is put forward by various authors as a decision support component [ 2, 25, 26].
Participants may have agreed to take part in the study because of an a priori interest in evidence utilisation in decision-making.
27 Types of evidence utilisation have been described that include strategic citing of academic work (or the lack of it) to provide posthoc justifications for policies, decisions and ideologies.
Previous research on models of evidence utilisation (often at a national level) has suggested that decision-makers may use academic research strategically to provide posthoc justifications for policies, actions and inaction.
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Evidence of utilisation of mortality data to improve the humanitarian response should be published in support of expert recommendations for ongoing implementation of mortality surveillance in complex emergencies.
Most recently the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA has put forward an evaluation scheme for biomarkers, looking at validation (assay performance), qualification (assessment of evidence), and utilisation (the context in which the surrogate is to be used).
The theory of evidence allows for utilisation of all available information.
Evidence for increased utilisation of health services is more established for vouchers (Meyer et al. 2011) and CCTs (Bastagli et al. 2016; Lagarde et al. 2009) than for UCTs (Bastagli et al. 2016; Pega et al. 2015); however, most studies reporting on 'intermediate outcomes' are outside of humanitarian contexts and care needs to be taken when extrapolating their conclusions.
We had no evidence of the utilisation rates of HMR in our respondents.
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