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Poster Are Cochrane reviews for end users of healthcare services? The results of an international survey
2009 Singapore
Wale, Belizan, Lyddiatt, Vij
Background: A Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group funded Prioritisation Project (2007) was awarded to the Cochrane Consumer Network (CCNet) to prioritise existing Cochrane reviews from a consumer, patient and carer perspective as a means of promoting evidence-based health care and improve health…
Poster Are you listening? Podcasts from The Cochrane Library: a review of 2008
2009 Singapore
Sampson, Urquhart, Clarke
Background: Cochrane podcasts are published with each issue, and with each issue, we provide some statistics for podcast authors regarding how many ‘hits’ their podcast has generated. Objectives: To highlight the dissemination of podcasts around the world, and to analyse who is listening to the…
Poster Assessing and improving quality of reporting the estimated effect size and its precision in randomized controlled trials
2009 Singapore
Nabhan
Background: The CONSORT checklist and statement, adopted by medical journals for instructing authors reporting randomized controlled trials (RCTs), clearly indicate that results should not be reported solely as pvalues. Confidence interval (CI) and number needed to treat (NNT) are important items…
Oral Assessing quality in systematic reviews of the effectiveness of health promotion and public health: areas of consensus and dissension
2009 Singapore
Shepherd
Background: There have been very few published qualitative research studies in which systematic reviewers have been asked to give their views on review methodology, discuss the barriers and facilitators to effective reviewing, and describe their experiences of learning review skills. Objectives: To…
Oral Assessing the quality of a body of evidence: experiences with the GRADE approach
2009 Singapore
Langendam, Kramer, Elbers, Hooft, Scholten
Background: The Cochrane Collaboration has adopted the Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system for evaluating the quality of evidence for the main outcomes reported in a systematic review. GRADE specifies four quality levels (high, moderate, low and very low…
Poster Awareness of The Cochrane Collaboration and The Cochrane Library in India
2009 Singapore
Mohan, Ramaratnam
Background: The South Asian Cochrane Network was established in December 2004 (now South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre [SACNC]). India is one of the few countries with a national subscription for The Cochrane Library. Methods: We conducted a survey to assess the awareness of the Cochrane…
Poster Building a database of systematic reviews about patient safety: providing clinicians with easier access to evidence
2009 Singapore
Solà, López-Alcalde, Ángel Expósito, Bonfill
Background: Evidence on practices to improve patient safety is growing, but systematic reviews about the effects of these interventions are lacking. The Spanish National Health Service Quality Agency commissioned the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre to create a database of systematic reviews about…
Oral Building capacity for Cochrane activity in South East Asia: impact of the SEA-ORCHID Project
2009 Singapore
Ho, McDonald
Background: SEA-ORCHID is a five-year project (2004-09) that aims to improve the health of mothers and babies in four South East Asian countries by increasing the capacity for generating and implementing evidence. As part of the project, each country conducted training activities intended to…
Poster CONSORT Extension for N-of-1 Trials (CENT) guidelines
2009 Singapore
Vohra, Shamseer, Bukuta, Sampson, Barrowman, Moher
Background: N-of-1 trials have been used in medicine to generate treatment information when evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is not available or applicable. N-of-1 study design maintains the methodological safeguards provided by RCTs (blinding, randomization and controls) yet…
Oral CONSORT for improving the quality of reports of randomized trials: a large scale survey of PubMed articles
2009 Singapore
Hopewell, Dutton, Chan, Altman
Background: The CONSORT Statement aims to improve reporting of RCTs, enabling readers to understand a trial’s design, conduct, analysis and interpretation, and assess the validity of its results. Objective: To examine the reporting of RCTs published before and after the revision of the CONSORT…
Oral CONSORT guidelines for reporting abstracts of randomized trials: a survey of its impact on high impact journals
2009 Singapore
Hopewell, Boutron, Clarke
Background: Clear, transparent and sufficiently detailed abstracts are important because readers often base their initial assessment of a trial on such information. Objectives: To evaluate abstracts for reports of randomized trials, published in five high-impact journals, following publication of…
Poster Challenges for formulary recommendations: limitations of outcome data reported in systematic reviews
2009 Singapore
Sullivan, O’Grady, Pagotto
Background: The Common Drug Review (CDR) conducts systematic reviews (SRs) to support evidence-based Canadian formulary listing recommendations (FLRs). Studies evaluating new drugs are sometimes limited in the types of outcomes they evaluate, creating challenges for health policy decision makers.…
Oral Challenges in conducting Cochrane systematic reviews in traditional Chinese medicine: how has the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group helped?
2009 Singapore
Zhu
Background: Demand for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) appears to be growing strongly, particularly in developed Western nations, alongside Western biomedicine. This trend is reflected in the Cochrane systematic reviews (CSRs): 109 reviews and protocols with a focus on Chinese herbal medicine or…
Oral Checking reference lists to find additional studies for systematic reviews
2009 Singapore
Horsley, Dingwall, Tetzlaff, Sampson
Background: In order to identify all potential sources of evidence for systematic reviews, authors may employ a number of strategies including the development of highly sensitive search strategies, handsearching, and contacting authors. Another commonly applied methodology is the process of…
Oral Clinicians’ and patients’ research priorities: a scoping review
2009 Singapore
Stewart, Caird, Oliver, Oliver
Background: Systematic approaches to involving patients and clinicians in setting agendas have been led by the Cochrane Collaboration and reported in wider research programmes for over ten years. More recently the James Lind Alliance has supported working partnerships of patients and clinicians to…
Poster Cluster randomised trials in Cochrane reviews of infectious diseases
2009 Singapore
Donegan, Faragher, Garner
Background: In infectious diseases, particularly in developing countries, cluster randomised trials help evaluate public health interventions. In reviews, cluster randomised trials requires more complex analysis than individual randomised trials. Sometimes authors are unaware that a trial is…
Poster Cochrane in Malaysia: impact of the SEA-ORCHID Project on usage of The Cochrane Library and Cochrane review activity
2009 Singapore
Ho, McDonald, Ming Lai, Peter, van Rostenberghe, Chang, Anuar Che Yaakob, Subramaniam
Background: SEA-ORCHID (South East Asia -Optimising Reproductive and Child Health in Developing Countries) is a five-year project that aims to improve the health of mothers and babies across nine centres in four South East Asian countries by increasing the capacity for generating and implementing…
Poster Combining parallel and cross-over studies in metaanalysis: a practical example
2009 Singapore
Romme, Reitsma, Black, Colman, Scholten, Wieling, Van Dijk
Background: We included both parallel and cross-over studies in our recent systematic review on pharmacological and pacemaker treatment for neurally mediated reflex syncope, the most common cause of transient loss of consciousness. When calculating treatment effects, we wanted to take into account…
Poster Comparison of current and previous approaches to deal with publication bias in systematic reviews
2009 Singapore
Parekh-Bhurke, Kwok, Pang, Hooper, Loke, Ryder, Sutton, Hing, Harvey, Song
Background: Publication bias, if undetected, can lead to inaccurate estimates of treatment effect sizes and hence undermine the validity of clinical guidelines. It has been observed in the past that consequences of publication bias have been greatly ignored. However, a wider awareness of the…
Poster Converting Peto’s odds ratio to risk difference
2009 Singapore
Tam, Ling Tang
Background: Peto’s odds ratio is often used in meta-analyses to combine studies of binary outcomes. However, the odds ratio needs to be converted to an absolute effect such as the risk difference to inform decision making. In such conversions, Peto’s odds ratio is normally taken as an ordinary odds…