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Objectives:
To present a fictitious training review developed by the Australasian Cochrane Centre (ACC) and explore strategies to further develop this resource.
Description:
The ACC has developed a fictitious review, "Caffeine for daytime drowsiness", for use in author training workshops. The review was designed to demonstrate the basic elements of a Cochrane review, including writing a protocol, planning inclusion criteria, and planning a search. A set of fictitious included studies has been developed to demonstrate the characteristics of included studies, data collection and analysis of outcomes using different statistical methods. In 2008, the review has been updated into RevMan 5 format, and now incorporates risk of bias assessment and summary of findings tables.
Using a fictitious review allows trainers to manipulate studies and data to demonstrate commonly occurring scenarios and mistakes, and avoids the need to cite or criticise real studies or reviews.
This workshop aims to demonstrate the current features of the training review, and actively involve participants in planning its future development. Participants will be asked to comment on the review; to suggest additional examples and scenarios to be built into the review and its included studies; and to suggest practical exercises that could make best use of the review to train authors; and to discuss options that could be used for training in different settings.
Target audience:
The workshop is aimed at participants who are actively involved or interested in training Cochrane authors of reviews of interventions.
Style of workshop:
The workshop will include a presentation of the fictitious training review, followed by small group discussions on specific areas of Cochrane methods and how they relate to training. Finally, the group will reconvene to share ideas on the future development of the review.
To present a fictitious training review developed by the Australasian Cochrane Centre (ACC) and explore strategies to further develop this resource.
Description:
The ACC has developed a fictitious review, "Caffeine for daytime drowsiness", for use in author training workshops. The review was designed to demonstrate the basic elements of a Cochrane review, including writing a protocol, planning inclusion criteria, and planning a search. A set of fictitious included studies has been developed to demonstrate the characteristics of included studies, data collection and analysis of outcomes using different statistical methods. In 2008, the review has been updated into RevMan 5 format, and now incorporates risk of bias assessment and summary of findings tables.
Using a fictitious review allows trainers to manipulate studies and data to demonstrate commonly occurring scenarios and mistakes, and avoids the need to cite or criticise real studies or reviews.
This workshop aims to demonstrate the current features of the training review, and actively involve participants in planning its future development. Participants will be asked to comment on the review; to suggest additional examples and scenarios to be built into the review and its included studies; and to suggest practical exercises that could make best use of the review to train authors; and to discuss options that could be used for training in different settings.
Target audience:
The workshop is aimed at participants who are actively involved or interested in training Cochrane authors of reviews of interventions.
Style of workshop:
The workshop will include a presentation of the fictitious training review, followed by small group discussions on specific areas of Cochrane methods and how they relate to training. Finally, the group will reconvene to share ideas on the future development of the review.