Considering importance of outcomes in Cochrane Reviews

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Authors
Alonso P1, Schuenemann H2, Johnston B3, Briel M4, Akl E5, Guyatt G6, Selva A7
1Iberoamerican Cochrane Center
2McMaster University
3The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
4Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland
5Cochrane Applicability and Recommendations Methods Group, Lebanon
6McMaster University, Canada
7Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Spain
Abstract
Objectives:
- To review what GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) considers as relative importance of outcomes (patients’ values and preferences) and how it fits Cochrane Reviews.
- To discuss the different approaches to consider this issue in systematic reviews.
- To show and discuss how to search this type of evidence.
- To learn and discuss how to rate the quality of the evidence for this type of evidence.

Description:
The workshop will include an introductory didactic presentation about the topic. We will then work in small groups with real examples, discussing strategies to consider this issue in systematic reviews and rating the quality of different study designs. We will use a proposal of how to present this type of evidence in evidence profiles, and finish with an open discussion of the advantages and limitations of the proposed approach (20 min).