Objective:
The aim of the workshop is to provide tools for:
- Framing the question,
- Establishing eligibility criteria from the type of question,
- Searching diagnostic accuracy studies.
Summary:
Systematic reviews on diagnostic tests are set up to inform decisions about using or selecting diagnostic tests. The diagnostic question to be answered has to be carefully formulated, and determines the appropriate research approach. Topics to be discussed in this workshop will include:
- An explanation and examples of the most relevant types of questions,
- The key components to be included into the objective of the review,
- How to define and use the question components,
- How to develop an adequate search strategy.
The workshop will include:
- brief presentations (45 minutes),
- small groups exercises and discussion using patient scenarios clinicians,
- encounter on the hospital wards or in clinic (45 minutes).
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss and deal with complexity of clinical diagnostic questions. Training material will be distributed.