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We need to move beyond the traditional and normative ‘top down’ and ‘outside in’ ways of creating and ‘translating’ evidence - Aileen Collier explains why. This article is part of our series to acknowledge World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day.

Evidence is the foundation of best practice. To acknowledge the importance of World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2022, held on 20 October every year, Professor Jennifer Tieman discusses the journey taken by CareSearch's evidence centre - that it a place for people to find, learn about, and work with palliative care evidence.

The current COVID-19 pandemic is presenting many urgent challenges in healthcare. However, it is important to remember the continuing needs of current and new patients with other health problems. It is within this context that Professor Jennifer Tieman, CareSearch Director from Flinders University discusses telehealth and how it can be used in addressing unexpected and novel health problems.

CarerHelp is an online resource that empowers family carers to prepare for caring for a person with terminal illness. Di Saward from Centre for Palliative Care at St Vincent’s Hospital discusses the importance of identifying and appraising existing online resources to inform content, and some of the processes involved in developing CarerHelp.