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Poster A novel methodological approach to synthesising the findings from quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews
2015 Vienna
Moore, Gwernan-Jones, Ford, Garside, Stein, Rogers, Thompson Coon
Background: There are few established methods for the integration of findings from quantitative and qualitative systematic reviews of interventions. This paper describes a method of overarching synthesis that we developed to bring together the findings from four systematic reviews about the…
Poster A pilot study on the system and execution model for health technology reassessment
2015 Vienna
Park, Park, Lim, Choi, Yun, Lee, Son, Lee
Background: The value of health technology change depends upon its life-cycle. A health technology reassessment (HTR) is essential in terms of overall life-cycle management of the health technology. Meanwhile, the National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency has developed a system and…
Poster A pilot survey on the status of the local guidelines for healthcare workers at the Sichuan Tian Fu New Area, China
2015 Vienna
Wei, Fan, Mu, Tian, Zhang
Background: Guidelines for healthcare workers in community and town hospitals would benefit the quality and efficiency of healthcare, especially in prevention and control of non-communicable chronic diseases for those in less developed areas of China.
Objectives: A pilot survey of guidelines for…
Oral A priority setting tool for prioritizing review questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and validation
2015 Vienna
Akl, El-Jardali, Fadlallah
Background: Groups conducting systematic reviews in health policy and systems research need to prioritize topics according to the needs of policymakers and stakeholders. Such prioritization can help ensure systematic review production is aligned with policy priorities, which, in turn, can promote…
Oral A program to evaluate Cochrane training for authors of systematic reviews
2015 Vienna
Cumpston, Page
Background: Although Cochrane has conducted training in systematic review methods since its inception, these activities have undergone only superficial evaluation based on attendance rates or participant satisfaction. The Cochrane Central Executive is initiating a new program to test our success in…
Oral A review of online evidence-based practice point-of-care information summary providers: 2014 update
2015 Vienna
Kwag, Gonzàlez-Lorenzo, Banzi, Bonovas, Moja
Background: The complexity of modern practice requires health professionals to be active information-seekers. Evidence-based point-of-care (EBP) information summaries can connect clinicians with best practice strategies at the bedside to optimize patient care. This study is the 2014 update of a…
Poster A search strategy to identify studies on the prognosis of work disability
2015 Vienna
Kok, Verbeek, Faber, van Dijk, Hoving
Background: Searching the medical literature for evidence on prognosis is an important aspect of evidence-based disability evaluation.
Objective: To develop and evaluate a comprehensive and efficient search strategy in PubMed, to be used by either researchers or practitioners, to identify…
Poster A survey of systematic reviews to identify items for assessing risk of bias in individual studies addressing values and preferences
2015 Vienna
Yepes-Nuñez, Zhang, Alonso-Coello, Selva, Schunemann , Guyatt
Background: Use of systematic review methods to synthesize evidence addressing distributions of values and preferences of patients and general populations is becoming more frequent, but there is limited agreement on how to appraise the risk of bias (RoB) of values and preferences studies.…
Oral A systematic review and external validation of prediction models for gestational diabetes: the RESPECT study
2015 Vienna
de Ruiter, Kwee, Naaktgeboren, Franx, Moons, Koster
Background: The rising incidence of gestational diabetes (GDM) contributes to an increasing number of adverse pregnancy outcomes (for example macrosomia and neonatal hypoglycemia). Currently, risk stratification in early pregnancy is based on single medical and/or obstetrical history risk factors.…
Poster A time sensitive, multi-disciplinary and collaborative method for systematic reviews enabling decision making in physical rehabilitation
2015 Vienna
Filion, Kairy, Caputo, Farley Chevrier, Brunet, Akué, Gendron, Bélanger, Visintin, Milette
Background: The CÉRIU, a Consortium of six rehabilitation centers, has been funded by the Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux, Quebec, Canada, with two objectives: firstly, to develop a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) team specialised in physical rehabilitation;…
Poster A triangulated approach for evidence-based practice in vulnerable populations with high blood pressure
2015 Vienna
Hong, Lee, Kim
Background: High blood pressure (HBP) is a lifelong disease and a key risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide. HBP is one of the most preventable causes of these premature deaths.
Objectives: This longitudinal exploratory-descriptive design used both…
Workshop ACROBAT-NRSi (A Cochrane Risk Of Bias Assessment Tool: for Non-Randomized Studies of Interventions) for non-clinical community based studies: a participatory workshop using a worked example from public health
2015 Vienna
Thomson, Sterne, Higgins
Objectives:
1. To facilitate learning through experience about the content and application of ACROBAT-NRSi when applied to public health intervention studies.
2. To gather input on the ease of application and appropriateness of applying ACROBAT-NRSi to public health intervention studies.…
Oral ACROBAT-NRSi for public health: reporting on feasibility and utility of applying ACROBAT to studies of housing improvement
2015 Vienna
Thomson, Campbell, Craig, Hilton Boon, Katikireddi
Background: The ACROBAT-NRSi tool is designed to promote rigour in the assessment of risk of bias (RoB) in non-randomised studies (NRS). The development and text of the ACROBAT-NRSi tool draws heavily on clinical examples to illustrate the tool and its application, but the feasibility of it being…
Oral AMSTAR: helping decision makers distinguish high and low quality systematic reviews that include non-randomized studies
2015 Vienna
Shea, The AMSTAR Development Group
Background: AMSTAR (A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews) is widely used in the critical appraisal of systematic reviews (SRs). The instrument was validated using SR of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Surveys have shown that over 60% of SRs of treatment effects include non-…
Oral Abstracts’ concept selection to reduce information overload
2015 Vienna
Alper, Malone-Moses
Many users will access abstracts of Cochrane reviews to determine key points, either to represent the complete concept or to determine if full-text reading of the review is warranted. Abstracts need to be concise yet include the most important concepts. We will analyze 100 Cochrane review…
Poster Access of evidence-based online databases among main and allied health professionals: a nationwide survey in Taiwan
2015 Vienna
Chiu, Kuo, Weng, Chen, Chen, Lo
Background: There are a variety of evidence-based online databases, but few studies have examined whether main and allied health professionals prefer different resources.
Objectives: The current study was to investigate the preference in accessing the online databases between main and allied…
Poster Accessing clinical study reports: potential to reduce bias in systematic reviews
2015 Vienna
Beaumier, Lawrence, Mintzes, Jauca, Wright, Perry, Turner, Puil
Background: Reporting bias is a recognized problem in many Cochrane Reviews, and could jeopardize the validity of their conclusions with implications for prescribers and consumers alike. Several currently available Cochrane Reviews of popular antipsychotics for schizophrenia have been criticized…
Oral Accountability and health information systems: from health systems' priority setting to a pragmatic systematic review
2015 Vienna
Leon, Brady, Kwamie, Lewin, Odendaal, Daniels
Background: The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research recently funded a two-year initiative in South Africa to conduct four systematic reviews on health systems questions. Central to the initiative was engagement with stakeholders to identify and select priority review questions. While…
Workshop Accounting for missing outcome data in meta-analysis
2015 Vienna
Salanti, Chaimani, Higgins, Mavridis, White
Objectives: To understand the theory and application of methods used to account for missing outcome data in a meta-analysis.
Description: Missing outcome data in the included trials reduce the precision in the meta-analysis summary effect. If outcomes are not missing at random, the synthesis of…
Poster Accurate diagnosis of latent tuberculosis in children, immunocompromised, and recently arrived people from high tuberculosis incidence countries: a systematic review
2015 Vienna
Tsertsvadze, Auguste , Pink, Court , Kandala, Clarke, Sutcliffe
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Nearly one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). About 30% of all MTB-exposed people develop latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Three population groups, namely,…