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Poster Methodologies for critical appraisal of prevalence studies: a systematic review
2018 Edinburgh
Migliavaca, Stein, Colpani, Falavigna
Background: Prevalence estimates have an important role in public health, supporting decisions related to health policies. Despite their importance, and considering that systematic reviews of prevalence studies have been increasingly published in the literature, there is still uncertainty and lack…
Poster Overcoming the difficulties of meta-analysis in psychotherapy
2018 Edinburgh
Lopez, Ciapponi
Background:
Although the number of systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analysis (MAs) that evaluate the efficacy of psychotherapy has increased in recent years, the evidence is still scarce compared to studies of medical treatments. This limitation could be explained by the low number of randomized…
Poster 'Destaques Cochrane’: an initiative for making Cochrane Reviews more popular among students and health professionals in Brazil
2018 Edinburgh
Riera, Pacheco, Martimbianco, Latorraca, Pachito, Atallah
Background:
The 'Revista Diagnóstico e Tratamento’ (RDT, published by Associação Paulista de Medicina since 1996) is a quarterly Brazilian medical journal that aims to offer medical updated content based on the best scientific evidence. Its articles are indexed in the LILACS database and are…
Poster A blog series by Students 4 Best Evidence: to explain and promote 36 ‘key concepts’ essential for assessing treatment claims
2018 Edinburgh
Carter, Ryan-Vig
Background:
An Informed Health Choices (IHC) project developed a list of 36 ‘key concepts’ (attached) designed to help people assess claims about the effects of treatment, and to be used as a starting point from which teachers and other intermediaries could develop resources to help people…
Poster A comparative study of publication bias in systematic reviews of traditional Chinese medicine and conventional medicine
2018 Edinburgh
Wang, Hu, Wen, Fang, Zhao, Tan, Lu, Liu, Wang, Zhang, li, Li, Liu, Song, Fei
Background:
With the development of the methods to detect and reduce publication bias, the impact of publication bias on the results of systematic reviews (SR) should be reduced. As global interest in traditional medicine grows, the number of published SRs of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)…
Poster A comparison of methods for meta-analysis of a small number of studies with binary outcomes
2018 Edinburgh
Mathes, Kuss
Background: Meta-analyses often only include a few studies. Estimating between-study heterogeneity is difficult in these cases. An inaccurate estimation of heterogeneity can result in biased effect estimates and confidence intervals (CIs) that are too narrow. Research has shown that this is…
Poster A descriptive analysis of non-Cochrane child-relevant systematic reviews published in 2014
2018 Edinburgh
Gates, Elliott, Johnson, Thomson, Williams, Fernandes, Hartling
Background:
Consumers, clinicians, policymakers and researchers require high quality evidence to guide decision making in child health. Though Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) are a well-established source of evidence, little is known about the characteristics of non-Cochrane child-relevant SRs…
Poster A methodological research of non randomized controlled trials in network meta analysis
2018 Edinburgh
Ling, Ge, Yang
Background:
The majority of network meta-analyses published to date have incorporated data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) only, however, more and more network meta-analyses of treatment interventions include non-randomized trials (NRSs). NRSs can complement RCTs or address some of their…
Poster A model for network meta-analysis of rare events
2018 Edinburgh
Efthimiou, Rücker, Egger, Salanti
Background:
The Mantel-Haenszel method has been used for decades now to synthesize data obtained from studies that compare two interventions with respect to a binary outcome. It has been shown to perform better than the inverse-variance method or Peto’s odds ratio when data are sparse. Network…
Poster A nationwide survey of the attitudes of doctors and dentists in training towards use of evidence-based practice
2018 Edinburgh
Hong, Jones, Cochrane UK and Ireland Trainees Advisory Group
Background:
The use of best evidence is vital to improving patient outcomes yet the extent to which trainee clinicians are motivated to engage with evidence-based practice is unclear.
Objectives:
The Cochrane United Kingdom and Ireland Trainees Advisory Group (CUKI TAG) undertook a national…
Poster A overview of systematic reviews about patients' values and preferences with AMSTAR II
2018 Edinburgh
Bai, Ling, Esoimeme, Yao, Wang, Shi, Dou, Chen, Tian, Wang, Yang
Background:
These days more and more systematic reviews (SRs) are published to measure patients' values and preferences in different areas of diseases, but their methodological quality is varied and unclear. The AMSTAR II (A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews II) checklist…
Poster A pilot study on the efficacy of shared decision making in nutritional consultant clinics for patients with diabetes mellitus
2018 Edinburgh
Pan, Pan, Fan, Wang
Background:
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the fifth greatest cause of death in Taiwan, impacting 2.3 million Taiwanese. Current treatment guidelines recommend lifestyle modification and healthy eating. Nutritional counseling is an important component of diabetes care. Shared decision making (SDM) has…
Poster A practical toolkit for clinicians to locate best evidence to improve patient outcomes
2018 Edinburgh
Kendall, Ryu, Walsh
Background:
Sinai Health System (SHS) is an internationally recognized academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Toronto. With more than 28,809 admissions a year, clinicians at SHS are often challenged with locating the best available published evidence at the time of need…
Poster A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards
2018 Edinburgh
Chartres, Norris
Background: Use of divergent methods to identify health risks posed by environmental hazards may hinder the goal of transparency and reduce the level of confidence the public may have in the recommendations made. There is no international standard for best practice in conducting hazard…
Poster A scale for measuring evidence-searching capability: a development and validation study
2018 Edinburgh
Chi, Tsai, Fang
Background: The ability to acquire the best evidence efficiently is important for busy healthcare professionals who have to make decisions within a limited time. However, the current available assessment tools in evidence-based medicine (EBM), e.g. Berlin questionnaire and Fresno test, were not…
Poster A scoping review of tools used to assess the quality of reporting of case report and case series studies
2018 Edinburgh
Wiyeh, Ochodo , Dube , Wiysonge
Background:
Case reports and case series are important in the individualisation of clinical practice recommendations, for the reporting of adverse and beneficial effects of various treatments and in the description of new and unusual diseases. However, despite the availability of several tools…
Poster A search strategy for retrieving articles from the LILACS database in a systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies: an experimental study
2018 Edinburgh
Pereira, Tersi, Puga, Atallah, Ribeiro, Macedo
Background:
LILACS (Latin American Caribbean Health Sciences Literature) is described in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews as one of the resources for systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Although many studies have already recognized the importance of LILACS in systematic…
Poster A survey of patient-centered outcome for coronary heart disease
2018 Edinburgh
Kong, Yang, Liu, Wang, Liu
Background:
Lack of patient-centered outcomes limits the usefulness of clinical trial evidence to inform healthcare decisions.
Objectives:
1) To investigate outcomes about which patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) are most concerned.
2) To make recommendations for selecting outcome…
Poster A survey on the methodology of nursing clinical practice guidelines in the National Guideline Clearinghouse
2018 Edinburgh
Sun, Chen, Bu, Yu, Wang , Tian
Objectives:
To analyze the current status of the methodology used in nursing clinical practice guidelines in the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), in order to provide suggestions for researchers to develop and apply.
Methods:
We searched the NGC website for nursing clinical practice…
Poster A systematic review of how studies describe digital health educational interventions: stage one of the development of the STEDI guideline
2018 Edinburgh
Posadzki, Tudor-Car, Semwal , Car
Background:
Digital health education (DHE) is an umbrella term encompassing a broad spectrum of educational interventions that are commonly evaluated in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). To the best of our knowledge, there are no guidelines outlining the key reporting items for studies on DHE…