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Trustworthy guidelines, evidence summaries and decision aids that we can all use and share

COVID-19: MAGIC making a difference and MAGICapp now available to develop Living Guidelines

The rapidly evolving evidence base for COVID-19 treatment and management presents a challenge to guidelines developers. MAGICapp enables the rapid update and dissemination of guidelines, with detailed version control to manage evolving content.

MAGIC is therefore committed to support organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, as exemplified by the collaboration with the World Health Organisation – enhanced by the BMJ Rapid Recommendations - the Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce - and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK.

These collaborations have resulted in trustworthy and living guidelines developed, published and dynamically updated through MAGICapp. The guidelines also build on living systematic reviews - including Living Network Meta-Analysis - and demonstrate the potential of a more trustworthy, efficient and integrated evidence ecosystem.

To further tackle the COVID-19 pandemic MAGIC is offering the MAGICapp platform at no charge to organizations that are unable to pay a license fee. Contact us to set up an account and immediately start developing and publishing your COVID-19 guidelines.

This new guideline is the latest development in our ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has driven new collaborative and international ways of working, and by sharing high-quality evidence with our colleagues around the world in the MAGICapp platform we have been able to develop this guidance more quickly. Being able to identify and assess the latest global evidence in a platform like MAGICapp will also help us to more efficiently identify which guidance needs updating as we continue to support healthcare professionals caring for COVID-19 patients.

Professor Gillian Leng
NICE Chief Executive

NICE

Improving patient care through trustworthy guidelines, evidence summaries, policy and decision aids

MAGIC (Making GRADE the Irresistible Choice) is a non-profit Foundation, our goal is to increase value and reduce waste in healthcare through a digital and trustworthy evidence ecosystem. MAGICapp is our core platform in the evidence ecosystem bringing digitally structured guidelines, evidence summaries and decision aids to clinicians and patients.

A new approach to producing and disseminating guidelines

MAGICapp is a web-based tool that helps users and organizations to author, publish and update digitally structured Clinical Practice Guidelines based on best current evidence, enabling clinicians and patients to make well-informed healthcare decisions at the point of care.

Our authoring and publication platform brings interoperable standards to the evidence ecosystem. It allows evidence synthesizers and guideline organisations to create, publish and dynamically update trustworthy evidence summaries, guidelines and decision aids in user-friendly formats on all devices.

These digitally structured outputs can be re-used and adapted across the world, also to inform health technology assessments and feed into decision support systems in the electronic health record, pathways and quality improvement initiatives (e.g registries).

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Evidence Ecosystem
Evidence Ecosystem

For organisations and authors

Introducing a new generation of technologies and tools to author, publish and update guidelines, evidence summaries and decision aids, based on standards and methods for trustworthy evidence and digitally structured data.

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For clinicians and patients

Improving patient care and safety through trustworthy guidelines and tools for shared-decision making at the point of care.

Our solutions and frameworks

For educational purposes

Can be used as a learning tool for introducing innovations in methods, processes and tools to students of evidence-based practice.

MAGICapp: our Authoring and Publication Platform

BMJ Rapid Recommendations for practice-changing evidence

A collaborative network of clinicians, patients and methodologists working together, providing trustworthy, accessible and timely guidance in user-friendly formats, through an innovative and rapid approach.

Enhancing shared-decision making in the clinical encounter

Decision Aids in a user-friendly and interactive format, to facilitate conversations between clinicians and patients about the benefits, harms and practical issues of treatments, to allow well-informed decisions taking patient values and preferences fully into account.

MAGIC App
MAGIC App