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Oral Assessing the impact of information retrieval in postgraduate medical education
2004 Ottawa
Grad, Pluye, Meng, Segal, Tamblyn
Background: Electronic resources are increasingly used in the medical workplace, and some forms of knowledge translation technology (KTT) may facilitate education. [1,2] While dissemination of printed materials is unlikely to produce rapid and substantial changes in practice, the impact of…
Poster Asthma self-management educational interventions versus usual care for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 controlled trials with 3304 patients
2004 Ottawa
Wolf, Guevara, Grum, Clark
Background: Previous Cochrane reviews have shown asthma self-management educational interventions for children [1] and regular medical review with peak expiratory flow monitoring and written action plan for adults [2] to bring about positive change in selective outcomes when compared with usual…
Poster Author self-classification of conference proceeding abstracts
2004 Ottawa
Sieving, Scherer, Dickersin
Background: Approximately 60% of randomized controlled trial (RCT) results presented at society meetings and published as abstracts in conference proceedings are eventually published in full in peer reviewed journals [1]. Accordingly, it is important to handsearch conference proceedings of…
Oral Availability of large-scale evidence on specific harms from systematic reviews of randomised trials
2004 Ottawa
Papanikolaou, Ioannidis
Background: Randomised trials provide an opportunity for collecting and reporting information on the harms of various interventions. Ideally systematic reviews should be able to collate and synthesize useful information on such harms on a large-scale. However, reporting of safety issues in…
Poster Barriers to participating in an HIV vaccine trial: a systematic review of qualitative studies
2004 Ottawa
Mills, Wilson, Cooper, Guyatt
Objective: To systematically review the literature to identify barriers to participation in HIV vaccine trials. Design: We undertook systematic searches of: AMED, Campbell Collaboration, CinAhl, Cochrane Library, Embase, E-Psyche, Health Technology Assessment, ERIC, MedLine, and NHS EED, sought…
Oral Bayesian approaches to meta-epidemiology
2004 Ottawa
Barrowman, Fang, Platt
Background: Meta-epidemiological studies aim to identify and quantify biases in estimates of intervention effectiveness by contrasting estimates from trials with different characteristics within meta-analyses, e.g. using the ratio of odds ratios (ROR). Several frequentist approaches to meta-…
Poster Bayesian meta-analysis for quantifying treatment benefit of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in neonates
2004 Ottawa
Beyene, Shah, Ohlsson
Background: In a Cochrane systematic review of Intravenous immunoglobin (IVIG) for preventing infection in preterm and/or low-birth-weight infants, the major outcome of any serious infection (one or more episodes) has previously been analyzed using standard meta-analysis techniques for binary…
Poster Best practice in editorial and organisational processes of Collaborative Review Groups (on behalf of QAG)
2004 Ottawa
Hetrick, Green, Alderson
Background: Collaborative Review Groups (CRGs) are responsible the preparation and maintenance of reviews, co-ordinated by the editorial team. The editorial team is involved in a large number of tasks requiring a range of resources in achieving this goal.
Some of these resources are provided…
Poster Bispectral index for improving anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery
2004 Ottawa
Punjasawadwong, Bunchungmongkol, Phongchiewboon
Background: Bispectral index (BIS) is a value derived from a complex mathematical process to determine the harmonic and phase relations among the various electroencephalogram frequencies. It might improve the anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery by enabling titration of the dose of…
Poster Blood pressure increasing effect of sibutramine in obese patients
2004 Ottawa
Luis Lemos, Soares
Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing, and as sibutramine is more prescribed, it requires a better understanding of its effects on blood pressure, through a systematic review of all eligible studies.
Objectives: the aim this review is to assess the influence of the use of…
Oral Bridging gaps between Chinese reviewers and Cochrane review groups
2004 Ottawa
Wei, Liu
Background: Up to the end of March, 2004, the production of Cochrane Systematic Reviews (CSRs) contributed by Chinese reviewers in the Cochrane Library (issue 1, 2004) is as follows - completed reviews 10 (0.5%), protocols 53 (3.76%) and registered titles 100 (2.2%). Only 6 reviewers completed 10…
Oral Bridging the gap between research results and decision making in clinical
practice: common problems in the development and use of a national Electronic
Library of Health Care
2004 Ottawa
Aertgeerts, Hannes, Buntinx
Objective: One of the most common barriers to implement Evidence-Based Medicine
(EBM) in practice is the lack of a payable access to important sources of
medical information. The Belgian branch of the Cochrane Collaboration aims at
providing online access to relevant databases and full-text…
Poster Bridging the gap from research to practice: the emergence of a community of practice in EBM at the department of family medicine at Laval university
2004 Ottawa
Cauchon, Labrecque, Légaré, Fremont, Ouellet
Background: Translating research into practice remains a challenge (van Weel, 2003) Experts believe this is possible but it will require comprehensive approaches at different levels tailored to specific settings and target groups (Grol & Grimshaw, Grimshaw, 2003) Establishing communities of…
Oral Bridging the gaps across the income divide: A review of The Collaboration's efforts to date and recommendations for the future
2004 Ottawa
Bukirwa
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) pertinent to developing countries (DCs) are comparatively few [1] and results of Cochrane reviews are less utilised in DCs compared to developed countries. Developing countries are un-arguably resource constrained, but if The Cochrane Collaboration offers them…
Poster Bridging the gaps between evidence-based and experience-based medicine in a Swiss Cochrane Symposium
2004 Ottawa
Dorffler Melly, Bleuer
Background: The Cochrane Collaboration has gained world-wide acceptance as a non-profit organization providing information mainly on therapeutic decision making. To what extent the Cochrane Library presently is perceived as a helpful tool for the clinical practitioner in every day life in…
Poster Bridging the gaps between prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia: systematic reviews of accuracy and effectiveness literature with economic modelling
2004 Ottawa
Cnossen, Meher, Duley, ter Riet
Background: Pre-eclampsia is a syndrome unique to pregnancy, and usually associated with hypertension and proteinuria. It affects 4-5% of pregnancies and is an important cause of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Its precise etiology is still unknown. Therefore, prediction of high…
Oral Bridging the information gap in Saskatchewan: Accessing and using The Cochrane Library province-wide
2004 Ottawa
Bangma, Forbes, Gander
Background: The Saskatchewan Site Representatives submitted a proposal to the Health Quality Council (HQC) focusing on "promoting the awareness, appreciation, distribution and use of Cochrane systematic reviews?" by providing access, with accompanying training, to healthcare practitioners…
Poster Building up a disease-specific trials register in hemato-oncology: experiences from a project of the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group (CHMG)
2004 Ottawa
Trelle, Kober, Higgins, Engert
Objectives: To describe our experience with building up a disease specific trials register for Hodgkins disease, and to evaluate the usefulness of different databases and the appropriateness of a broad and sensitive search strategy.
Methods: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, the Institute of…
Oral By how much does publication bias affect the results of systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy?
2004 Ottawa
Deeks, Macaskill, Irwig
Background: Little is know about the degree and mechanisms of selective reporting of studies of diagnostic test accuracy, nor the impact which selective reporting has on the results of systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy.
Objectives: To evaluate the impact of publication bias arising through…
Oral C.H.A.I.N. Canada - Contact, Help, Advice & Information, Network: linking professions, organisations, researchers, practitioners and policy makers
2004 Ottawa
Santesso, Evans, McAuley, McGowan, Grimshaw
Background: Research findings cannot improve population outcomes unless healthcare systems, organisations and professionals use them in practice and in policy-making.1 Unfortunately, the transfer of research findings into practice and policy is unpredictable and can be slow and haphazard.2 One…