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Poster A tool to assess risk of bias in studies estimating the prevalence of mental health disorders (RoB-PrevMH)
2023 London
Tonia, Buitrago-Garcia, Peter, Mesa-Vieira, Li, Furukawa, Cipriani, Leucht, Low , Salanti
Background: Studies of prevalence provide essential information for estimating the burden of mental health conditions, which can inform research and policymaking. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a large volume of literature on the prevalence of various conditions,…
Poster A two-stage rapid umbrella review of interventions relevant to the Welsh context to support recruitment and retention of clinical staff
2023 London
Edwards, Csontos, Gillen, Carrier, Lewis, Cooper, Gal, Davies, Law, Greenwell, Edwards
Background:
The United Kingdom is facing an acute healthcare workforce shortage in every discipline, hindering National Health Service (NHS) recovery from the residual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing ongoing endemic pressures.
Objectives:
To investigate the effectiveness of…
Poster ACURATE: a guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture
2023 London
Lee, Ang, Lee, Kim, Lee, Chae, Lee
Background: Evidence shows that the quality of reporting of trials using sham controls is not ideal and has yet to improve over time. The lack of proper reporting impedes readers from fully understanding the validity of acupuncture trial findings and their relevant effectiveness.
Objectives: To…
Poster ADAPTING CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES TO DIGITAL TOOLS: A METHODOLOGICAL STUDY
2023 London
Motter, Gadenz, Leao, Riera, Caluza, Mantese, Batista, Aquino, Gonçalves, Bitencourt, Coelho, Oliveira, Brandes, Suffert, Rocha, Perius, Sperling
Background: In Brazil, the process of development and updating of the clinical guidelines for the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) is already well systematized by the Ministry of Health. However, implementing such guidelines within local contexts and at the point of…
Poster AI for Dummies: Do DistillerSR AI Tools Improve Screening Efficiency for Evidence Syntheses?
2023 London
Robalino, Durbin
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of time-consuming tasks such as title/abstract screening has been difficult to implement for many groups who conduct systematic reviews. DistillerSR provides review authors a cloud-based tool to screen, assess, and abstract studies…
Poster Academic-clinical partnership for enhancing evidence-based healthcare in a Portuguese Context: a case study
2023 London
Cardoso, Cardoso, Marques, Andrade, Fernandes, Rodrigues, Apóstolo
Background: Academic-clinical partnerships offer opportunities to promote evidence-based healthcare in clinical and educational settings. An integrated approach, with the active collaboration of all stakeholders (researchers, healthcare professionals, and final consumers), becomes essential to…
Poster Adapting evidence-based peri-discharge complex interventions for reducing 30-day hospital readmissions among Heart Failure and COPD patients in Hong Kong
2023 London
ZHONG, Wong, Hung, Yeoh, Wong, Chung
Background
Avoidable 30-day hospital readmission is a key policy problem among health systems globally, including Hong Kong. Among all health conditions, heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two leading causes for such readmissions. Effectiveness of peri-discharge…
Poster Addressing confusion in evidence synthesis: developing a structured taxonomy for informing the synthesis of evidence to inform policy and practice
2023 London
Munn, Pollock
Background:
Historically, evidence synthesis strategies focused on answering whether or not something works (i.e., questions relating to effectiveness). However, there now exists a multitude of approaches, methods, and methodologies to conduct evidence synthesis. Enabling researchers to ensure that…
Poster Addressing racial health inequity: systematic review of systematic reviews
2023 London
Welch, Viswanathan, Dewaidar, Rizvi, Terhune, Duque, Francis, Riddle, Heyn, Pizarro
Background: Racialized populations are affected by the sociopolitical and historical context in which they live. For example, African American and Black people face persistent discrimination and exclusion in the United States. Reducing racism and its negative consequences is a key global priority…
Poster Adequacy of information on funding and financial conflicts of interest in clinical trial publications and how to obtain missing information: methodological study
2023 London
Ivosevic, Faltinsen, Hróbjartsson, Lundh, Hansen Nejstgaard
Background: Knowledge about funding and authors’ conflicts of interest is important when critically appraising trials, for example in the context of a systematic review. Although studies have found that funding and conflicts of interest information is often reported in trial publications, little is…
Poster Adherence and quality of systematic reviews for automatically registered protocols: a PROSPERO register study
2023 London
Luo, Liu, Zhu, Wang, Chen
Background:
Following the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the PROSPERO team established an automated checking procedure for non-COVID-19 systematic reviews that are registered on their platform. This process takes place 30 days after registration. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain whether the…
Poster Adherence of Cochrane reviews and protocols to the Cochrane's risk of bias 2.0 tool
2023 London
Martimbianco, Sá, Santos, Santos, Pacheco, Riera
Background: Assessing the risk of bias in individual studies is an important step when conducting a systematic review and key criteria for assessing the certainty of the body of evidence. Neglecting potential biases can directly impact the estimated effects of the intervention, lead to uncertain…
Poster Adherence to non-financial conflicts of interest policy in Cochrane reviews where authors are also editorial board members
2023 London
Pacheco, Latorraca, Martimbianco, Fontes, Miranda, Nunan, Riera
Background: Conflict of interest (COI) represents a major threat to the validity of research, and its impact is well recognized and has been extensively addressed in the literature [1,2]. The impact of nonfinancial conflict of interest (nfCOI) in conducting systematic reviews is not ignored by…
Poster Alternative distributions for random effects meta-analysis model
2023 London
Panagiotopoulou, Metelli, Chaimani
Background: Random effects meta-analysis is widely used for synthesizing the studies of a systematic reviews under the assumption that the underlying study-specific treatment effects come from a common normal distribution. However, this assumption is sometimes not justifiable, such as in presence…
Poster An analytical apparatus for including art-research evidence in a systematic review
2023 London
Hannes, Siegesmund
Background: In times of crisis, art provides an outlet for many to express their feelings, emotions and experiences. We collected art-research works to answer the question of how to best sustain life on earth under pandemic lock-down conditions.
Objectives: Starting from a multimodal research…
Poster An exploration of knowledge translation in a wider audience by holding Cochrane evidence dissemination competitions via social media in China
2023 London
Li, Zhang, Suo, Shen, Hu, Wang, Jiang
Background: A lot of efforts have been made to translate Cochrane abstracts and plain language summaries (PLSs) in order to get the high-quality evidence available to a wider audience. However, failure of getting people with less or no expertise to understand the research itself is another barrier…
Poster An overview of Cochrane reviews of predictive, prognostic or prognostic modelling studies
2023 London
Posadzki
Background: Prognostic or prognostic modelling studies are developed to give accurate and discriminating predictions about the likelihood of a future outcome in individuals with a given disease or health condition and are increasingly being used in evidence-based medicine of the XXI century.…
Poster An unusual diagnostic test accuracy review: challenges in study identification, data extraction and quality assessment
2023 London
Probyn, Sguassero, Smith, Leeflang, Bergman, Buckley, Chaplin, Cogo, Cohen, Ford, Henschke, Orrell, Petkovic, Sebastianski, Garner, Hine, Villanueva
Background:
This was a joint project of Cochrane Response and Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group. The aim of the review was to determine the accuracy of simple measures of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence for detecting non-suppressed viral load in people with HIV that could be utilized in…
Poster Analysis of continuous outcomes when a large proportion of the data are zeroes
2023 London
Sandercock, Geneen
Background:
Continuous outcomes are not straightforward to analyse if there are a large proportion of zeroes, as frequently occurs with outcomes such as volume of blood transfused for conditions for which blood transfusion is not always necessary. Should we analyse volume per person randomised (…
Poster Application of QUADAS-C and GRADE in a Cochrane DTA Review: Comparison of lipoarabinomannan assays for tuberculosis in adults living with HIV
2023 London
Yang, Bjerrum, Kohli, Schiller, Nathavitharana, Denkinger, Steingart, Leeflang, Zwerling, Shah
Background: The WHO recommends the urine lipoarabinomannan assay Determine™ TB LAM Ag (Determine-LAM) to help diagnose tuberculosis in people living with HIV. A new assay, SILVAMP TB LAM (SILVAMP-LAM)*, may serve as a replacement test for Determine-LAM. Two recently developed methods allow…