ABEC is a scientific collaboration between the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast dedicated to advancing knowledge by undertaking rigorous evidence syntheses on a wide range of healthcare, public health and social care interventions, and technologies.
Our mission is to generate robust evidence from existing research studies to inform clinical practice and policy, improve patient outcomes and reduce inequalities.
We believe that well-informed decisions about health and social care should be based on reliable evidence. Evidence synthesis methodology brings together evidence from existing research on competing treatments and procedures to optimise benefits for patients and make good use of NHS resources.
We are sensitive to an evidence synthesis landscape that is continually changing and evolving to address the needs of a range of different stakeholders and our work aims to:
Support decision-making that impacts patient care, makes services more efficient, and reduces inequalities
Enhance research by identifying research gaps and areas for further methodological development
