Best Practice submisssion form
If you are a healthcare professional and want to submit a Best Practice in the field of prevention and/or awareness regarding substance or non-substance addictions, please fill out the following form
If you are a healthcare professional and want to submit a Best Practice in the field of prevention and/or awareness regarding substance or non-substance addictions, please fill out the following form
Best Practices Rating System
To develop the scoring system, certain general aspects utilized by the National Health System (SNS) are adjusted when weighing BBPP
2 inclusion criteria were established: suitability and relevance. Suitability refers to ensuring that what’s suggested in the reported Best Practice aligns with the strategies outlined in the Action Plan on Addictions 2021-24 and the National Strategy on Addictions 2017-2024 of the National Drugs Plan.
The following criteria item is pertinence, which refers to ensuring that what is proposed is suitable for the target population in each case
These two criteria must be met to proceed to assess the evaluation criteria, so both suitability and relevance do not score per se, but they serve as the gateway for the suggested practice to be subject to evaluation. If at least one of these 2 inclusion criteria is not met, the Best Practice is immediately discarded, and therefore, evaluation criteria are not applied to it.
Next, five evaluation criteria are weighted, totaling 2 points for reproducibility if both aspects addressed in that criterion are met, and 1 point for each of the remaining criteria. These criteria are:
1- Reproducibility: if the proposal sufficiently details the practice so that someone with that description can carry it out, and if the resources proposed for use are accessible nationally.
2- Comprehensiveness: if the practice addresses 2 or more risk factors and/or health determinants together.
3- Evaluation-Effectiveness: if the proposal has previous evaluations and if there is information about its results in real conditions (provided by the reporting person, whether or not they are authored by them).
4- Equity: if the practice considers specific objectives to reduce health inequities, considering aspects such as gender, socioeconomic level, or ethnicity. Given that the scoring system was implemented in a Google Forms form, the first evaluation criterion, reproducibility, was disaggregated into two statements: one assessing the description of the practice and the other the necessary resources. This meant that, despite being 4 criteria, the total possible score was 5 points, as a value of 1 was assigned to each item present in the report.
5- Sustainability: It assesses the ability of the proposed good practice to be maintained over time with the available material and human resources, and responding to social, economic, and/or environmental needs.