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Poster An evaluation of harvest plots to display results of meta-analyses in overviews of reviews
2014 Hyderabad
Hartling, Wingert, Crick, Fernandes, Thomson, Williams
Background:
Harvest plots are used to display evidence from complex and diverse studies or results graphically. They group studies based on whether they demonstrate a positive, negative or no effect, and can display additional information, such as quality of evidence.
Objectives:
To: 1)…
Workshop An opportunity to learn more about and pilot ROBIS, a new tool to assess the risk of bias in a systematic review
2014 Hyderabad
Whiting, Savovic, Shea, Reeves
Objectives:
Introduction to ROBIS, a tool to assess the risk of bias in a systematic review (i.e. assessing the risk of bias in the review itself, not the primary studies included in the review). The first session will be an overview of the development and structure of ROBIS. The second session…
Poster Analysis of randomized controlled trials published from India by Indian physiotherapists in PubMed and PEDro database
2014 Hyderabad
Hariohm, Prakash, Saravan Kumar
Background:
Increased scope of physiotherapy (PT) practice also has contributed to research in the field of PT. It is essential to determine the production and quality of the clinical trials from India, since it may reflect the scientific growth of the profession. These trends can be taken as a…
Poster Analysis of treatment description in RCTs in physiotherapy
2014 Hyderabad
Sivaprakash, Hariohm, Saravan Kumar
Introduction:
One analysis found that 67% of drug treatment descriptions were adequate compared with only 29% of non-drug treatments. Physiotherapy is a non-drug health specialty that includes exercise, electrotherapy, thermal treatments etc. Such treatment procedures require clear descriptions…
Oral Anywhere Cochrane Reviews: responsive web design, the 'connected article' and Cochrane evidence
2014 Hyderabad
Toler, Joyce, Pentesco-Gilbert
Background:
Responsive Web Design (RWD) is one of the prime concepts behind mobile internet access. What this provides to the user or reader is content that is enabled to be responsive to its device, optimizing their use of the information particularly to improve their mobile internet experience…
Poster Are 'Risk of bias' summary graphs in Cochrane Reviews overestimating bias?
2014 Hyderabad
von Elm, Meerpohl
Background:
Cochrane Reviews often include two graphs to summarize overall risk of bias (RoB) of included studies: a horizontal bar chart for RoB of all included studies per domain assessed (RoB graph) and a figure with review authors’ judgement for each domain and study (RoB summary). Both use…
Poster Are Cochrane Review Protocols available and post-protocol changes to methods documented? A study in HIV/AIDS and ophthalmology
2014 Hyderabad
Saldanha, Li, Heyward, Dickersin
Background: There is widespread acknowledgement that clinical trial protocols & amendments should be made public. It is unclear if comparable access to systematic review (SR) protocols & amendments is available. Objectives: To evaluate the availability of Cochrane SR Protocols, extent to…
Poster Are public health strategies relevant to non-communicable disease in China covered in the Cochrane Library?
2014 Hyderabad
Zhang, Garner
Background:
Non-communicable diseases are becoming more common in China, and relevant, evidence-based public health strategies are important for prevention.
Objectives:
We sought to appraise the adequacy of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in relation to coverage of priority…
Poster Assessing adverse effects of interventions in Cochrane reviews: what types of study designs are used?
2014 Hyderabad
Parra, Porfírio, Silva, Martimbianco, Freitas, Torres, Reiter, Pesavento, Riera, Torloni, Atallah
Background:
According to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Loke 2011), every healthcare intervention comes with the risk, great or small, of harmful or adverse effects. To minimize bias in reviews, it is important to assess not only favourable outcomes but also the…
Workshop Assessing bias due to missing data in a systematic review that includes non-randomised studies (NRS)
2014 Hyderabad
Reeves, Shea, Wells, Sterne, Higgins, Savovic
Objective:
The workshop aims to train review authors to assess the risk of bias due to missing data when including non-randomized studies (NRS) in systematic reviews of interventions, by using an extended risk of bias tool (ACROBAT-NRS).
Description:
Cochrane recommends that review…
Poster Assessing bias in osteoarthritis trials included in Cochrane reviews
2014 Hyderabad
Bolvig Hansen, Juhl, Boutron, Tugwell, Ghogomu, Pardo Pardo, Rader, A. Wells, Mayhew, Lund, Christensen
Introduction:
The validity of reviews and meta-analysis depends upon the methodological quality and unbiased dissemination of trials. Our objective is to evaluate the association of estimates of treatment effects with different bias-related study characteristics in meta-analyses of interventions…
Oral Assessing how much confidence to place in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses: a new version of the CERQual tool
2014 Hyderabad
Munthe-Kaas, Glenton, Lewin, Carlsen, Colvin, Noyes, Rashidian, Booth, Garside, -
Background:
Qualitative evidence syntheses are increasingly used to bring together findings from qualitative studies. However, it is difficult to use these findings to inform decisions because the methods to assess how much confidence to place in these synthesis findings are poorly developed…
Poster Assessing the quality of surveillance studies
2014 Hyderabad
Jaiswal, Thumburu, Agarwal, Singh, Bharti, Mathew
Background:
Surveillance studies are ranked low in the hierarchy of evidence, but there are conditions where randomized controlled trials cannot be performed and the available evidence is from surveillance. Surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases is a form of evidence used by resource-poor…
Workshop Assessing the risk of confounding and selection bias in a systematic review that includes non-randomized studies (NRS)
2014 Hyderabad
Reeves, Shea, Wells, Sterne, Higgins, Savovic
Objective:
The workshop aims to train review authors to assess the risk of bias due to confounding and selection of participants into groups when including non-randomized studies (NRS) in systematic reviews about the effects of interventions, using an extended risk of bias tool (ACROBAT-NRS).…
Poster Assessment of attitudes towards participation, willingness to participate, and competence to participate in Randomized Controlled Trials: a cross-sectional qualitative and quantitative survey of psychiatric patients and key family members
2014 Hyderabad
George, Dholakia, Tharyan
Objectives:
To understand the perspectives of Indian patients undergoing treatment for major psychiatric disorders, and of their relatives, regarding participation in randomised clinical trials (RCTs), and to assess their competence to consent.
Methods:
A cross-sectional quantitative and…
Poster Assessment of knowledge, skills and attitude of undergraduate students on evidence-based medicine
2014 Hyderabad
Karanth, Adinegara
Background:
Practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) by physicians and residents has helped to improve patient outcomes in the clinical setting. Recently EBM has been increasingly integrated into the curricula of many medical schools which has shown an increase in knowledge of EBM and also…
Poster Assessment of methodological quality of adaptive clinical trials
2014 Hyderabad
He, Jackson, Reljic, Mhaskar, Kumar, Djulbegovic, Miladinovic
Background:
Adaptive clinical trials have become increasingly popular in recent years and about 20% of clinical trials currently underway already use adaptive designs. Unlike traditional clinical trials, they allow for a review of accumulating trial information and modification of trial…
Poster Assessment of reporting quality in infertility journals
2014 Hyderabad
Glujovsky, Ciapponi, Riestra, Boggino, Coscia
Background:
Transparent and accurate reporting of research studies enhances reliability and value of medical research. Furthermore, good reporting has been associated with better quality publications. Reporting guidelines are free and Equator (Enhancing QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research…
Oral Automatic information retrieval: citation tracking, deduplication and full-text fetching
2014 Hyderabad
Tsafnat, Choong
Background:
In evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews are important devices for medical practitioners in making clinical decisions. A systematic review is a summary of evidence on a clearly formulated question based mostly on randomized controlled trials. Development of a systematic review…
Poster Barriers and facilitators to handsearching: experience of the Brazilian Cochrane Centre
2014 Hyderabad
Torres, Freitas, Puga, Porfírio, Silva, Martimbianco, Parra, Reiter, Pesavento, Fioretti, Riera, Torlone, Atallah
Background:
Handsearching for controlled clinical trials is a core function in the linguistic area of all Cochane Centres. However this activity requires extensive searching in different databases, such as national repositories of theses and local journals that are not indexed in international…