Australian Living Evidence Collaboration

Summary

The Australian Living Evidence Collaboration (ALEC) was established in 2018 to support and develop ‘Living’ evidence and guidelines – an approach that enables almost real time updating of the latest research and guidance without compromising the rigorous, gold standard methods needed to provide trustworthy recommendations. The initial focus areas were stroke, diabetes, arthritis and kidney disease.

They support evidence-based clinical decision-making in priority areas for Australian health care settings.

To do this they:

• convene the sector (clinicians, consumers, policymakers, organisations, researchers) to promote and build multidisciplinary collaboration
• provide living evidence syntheses
• develop living guidelines
• conduct research to improve their impact.