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Poster :[P04-33] A collaboration-wide survey of Cochrane authors
2008 Freiburg
Gillies, Maxwell, New, Pennick, Fedorowicz, Van Der Wouden, Oliver, Scholten, Ciapponi, Verbeek
Background: Although the number of Cochrane reviews published each year seems to have stabilised, the number of non-Cochrane systematic reviews is still increasing at a rapid rate and over the years 2005 to 2007 accounted for more than two thirds of the systematic reviews indexed in MEDLINE. For…
Workshop A Roadmap to Success: Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement for Entity and Organisation Administrators
2008 Freiburg
Ellen Schaafsma
Abstract: This workshop will help administrators identify the strategic objectives for their particular entity, learn how to construct a plan that will help them achieve their goals and then develop measurable performance indicators based on their plan that will help them track and report progress…
Workshop A guide to prospective meta-analysis
2008 Freiburg
Askie, Ghersi
Abstract: This workshop will address strategies for avoiding publication bias and related biases through the prospective identification of studies. Investigators conducting ongoing trials may, prior to knowing the results of those studies, agree to combine their findings when the trials are…
Poster A survey analysis of doctors’ perceptions of difficulties in patient involvement in clinical decision making
2008 Freiburg
Zhang, Chen, Wang, Fan, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Dong
Background: In China, an estimated number of over 90% of patients would like to participate in shared decision making, especially when medical costs for health care falls on their shoulders. There has been a discussion of the attitude to patient involvement in clinical decision making, and its…
Poster A synopsis of four Cochrane systematic reviews on bladder training and voiding programmes using metastudy techniques for qualitative research
2008 Freiburg
Roe, Ostaszkiewicz, Milne, Wallace
Background: Bladder training, prompted voiding, habit retraining and timed voiding are behavioural interventions developed for the management of urinary incontinence in adults. Cochrane systematic reviews on their effectiveness have been published. Metastudy techniques are methods developed for the…
Poster A systematic approach to identifying and responding to policymakers needs in evidence-based veterinary public health - food safety
2008 Freiburg
Read, Rajic´, Sargeant, Waddell, Fazil, Pollari, Farber
Background: Several historical reports (National Forum on Health, 1977; Naylor Report, 2003) have emphasized the need to create a culture of evidence-based decision making within public health. An environmental scan in 2004 demonstrated that very few systematic reviews had been published in the…
Oral A systematic method of identifying and prioritising research questions
2008 Freiburg
Clavisi, Gruen, Bragge, Tavender
Background: Researchers and research funders often have reason to identify and prioritise research questions. Lomas’ framework (Milbank, 2003) for priority-setting includes identifying stakeholders, assembling data, consultation and validation of priority issues, and translation and validation of…
Poster A systematic review of studies that determine which outcomes should be measured in clinical trials in children
2008 Freiburg
Sinha, Jones, Smyth, Williamson
Background: In clinical trials the selection of appropriate outcomes is crucial to the assessment of whether one intervention is better than another. Selection of inappropriate outcomes can seriously compromise the results of a trial. However, the process of selecting the most suitable outcomes to…
Poster Accessing the evidence: a search portal and reference site for clinical trials in children
2008 Freiburg
Wong, Ghersi
Background: Access to information and transparency regarding ongoing, completed and published clinical research is essential for appropriate decision making. The World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Trials Search Portal (CTSP) enables users to search a central database that contains the trial…
Oral Adapting diagnostic review methods to summarise the properties of psychometric instruments: a case study of diagnosing postnatal depression (PND) in primary care
2008 Freiburg
Hewitt, Mann, Gilbody
Background: Depression in all populations is associated with profound decrements in quality of life, social functioning and economic productivity. However, in the case of Post Natal Depression, the adverse consequences are felt beyond the individual with depression affecting the family and…
Oral Addressing between-study heterogeneity and inconsistency in mixed treatment comparisons: application to stroke prevention treatments for Atrial Fibrillation patients
2008 Freiburg
Cooper, Sutton, Ades, Welton
Background: Mixed treatment comparison (MTC) models extend metaanalysis methods to enable comparisons to be made between all relevant comparators in the clinical area of interest. In such modelling, it is imperative that potential sources of variability are explored to explain both heterogeneity (…
Poster Adequate adjustment for confounders is vital for a valid interpretation of meta-analyses incorporating non-randomized studies
2008 Freiburg
Schmoor, Schumacher
Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard for the comparison of treatments. Nevertheless, evidence from non-randomized observational studies (NRSs) is relevant: randomization is sometimes not acceptable to patients, e.g. when treatments differ qualitatively,…
Poster Adjusting for publication bias: a multiple imputation approach
2008 Freiburg
Carpenter, Rücker, Schwarzer
Background: Meta-analysis seeks to combine information from various sources to arrive at a precise, unbiased estimate of an intervention effect. This effort is compromised if the information available to the analyst is subject to unknown selection bias. Considerable effort has therefore gone into…
Workshop Advanced EPOC Methods Workshop
2008 Freiburg
Gruen, Tavender, Jamtvedt, T Kristoffersen
Objectives:
To facilitate understanding of methodological issues specific to EPOC reviews, and to highlight particularly challenging areas.
Summary:
This workshop will first give a brief overview of EPOC reviews and will then quickly move into an interactive session on issues particularly…
Workshop Advanced meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance: investigating heterogeneity and comparing tests
2008 Freiburg
Macaskill, Harbord
Objectives:
The workshop will provide an introduction to regression methods for summary ROC analysis, using both fixed effect and random effects (hierarchical) models. At the end of the workshop, participants will be aware of the alternative models, their application and interpretation.…
Workshop Advanced workshop for Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators (closed)
2008 Freiburg
Lefebvre
Objective:
To provide a forum for discussion for experienced Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators.
Summary:
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for Cochrane TSCs who have been working as TSCs for over 4 years - for them to meet together and discuss issues which are important to them…
Poster Ambiguity of study population analysis and reporting in asthma clinical trials
2008 Freiburg
Frampton, Shepherd
Background: Extensive recommendations, including the CONSORT statement, provide guidance on the analysis and reporting of populations in clinical trials to minimize bias. Objectives: This study investigated the clarity of reporting the populations analyzed in clinical trials of asthma…
Oral Analysis of the level of evidence included in the recommendations given during health-based news reports on Brazilian television
2008 Freiburg
Vieira, Andriolo, Lima, Macedo, Puga, Riera, Silva, Atallah
Background: Health-based news reports on television news are frequent and profitable for broadcasters due to the large viewership they command. Issues concerning illnesses with greater mortality risks, such as tumours, are the public’s preferred healthcare broadcast topics. Just as it is the…
Workshop Archie training for Cochrane Review Group (CRG) editors
2008 Freiburg
Henderson, Dooley
Abstract: The Cochrane Collaboration's central server, known as Archie, is an Internet-based system which communicates with RevMan 5. Archie has been designed to make it easier for Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs) to support the editorial processing and publication of Cochrane reviews. Since the…
Oral Are Cochrane systematic reviews being used in national clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease?
2008 Freiburg
Tong, Campbell, Walker, Craig
Background: Ideally, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) should be based on high quality evidence such as Cochrane systematic reviews. However, there is concern that only few reviews are being used to support guideline recommendations. Objectives: To estimate what proportion of the Australian-New…