With the rapid development of evidence-based medicine during the past two decades, evidence andevidence-based methods were not only used in the field of health care, but also applied to other non-medical fields. Asystematic literature search and a comparative study were conducted to investigate the definition of evidence. We also putforward our own definition of evidence: Evidence is the information from the systematic review process. We also discussedthe development of evidence-based paradigm and hope this will act as a reference for other subjects and industries.
With the increasingly prominent contradiction between limited health resources and the growing population, priority setting of health research, as a response, has received widespread attention from health systems worldwide. As the results of priority setting at different levels increase year by year, some questions in the results reporting are also constantly emerging. For example, the process of producing the results is vague, too dependent on individual subjective judgment, the participation of individual stakeholder groups is limited or lack of voice, unable to identify potential conflicts of interest, and so on. It does not only seriously affect the effectiveness and rationality of the results themselves, but also create intangible obstacles to their promotion and adoption. In 2019, BMC Medical Research Methodology published ‘Reporting guideline for priority setting of health research (REPRISE)’, which makes uniform specifications for more comprehensive and consistent reporting of results in priority areas. This paper interpreted the background, formulation process and key contents of the REPRISE guideline, with an aim to promote the application of the reporting guideline in China.