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Poster : Using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations approach to report the conclusions in a non-inferiority randomized clinical trial.

2023 London
Seron, Oliveros
Background: Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) has proposed a system for rating the certainty of a body of evidence (CoE) to determine confidence in the estimate. The GRADE approach has not only refreshed the way in which the evidence is presented, and even…

Poster A Pretrained Language Model for Classification of Cochrane Plain Languages Summaries on Conclusiveness of Recommendations

2023 London
Mijatović, Ursić, Buljan, Marušić
Background: Cochrane Plain Language Summary (PLS) is a stand-alone summary of a Cochrane Review used to disseminate the evidence in health to a non-research audience. They can be categorized according to level of conclusiveness, i.e., whether they contain conclusive recommendations on intervention’…

Poster A Scoping Review of Published and Ongoing Prospective Meta-Analyses in Health Research

2023 London
Love, Li, Sotiropoulos, Williams, Libesman, Hunter, Seidler
Background: Prospective meta-analyses (PMA) may reduce many of the issues that can occur in retrospective meta-analyses, such as reducing biases in publication and selective outcome reporting. However, common misunderstandings of the PMA methodology remain, leading to inappropriate and/or…

Poster A co-produced e-toolkit to support patient and public involvement in developing and promoting core outcome sets

2023 London
Barrington, Harman, Turner, Smith, Williamson, Young
Background: This work links to the international Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET) Initiative. Core Outcome Sets (COS) can reduce research waste by promoting consistency in outcome reporting. Over 400 COS have been published; another 300 COS are in development. COS should be…

Poster A comparison of duplicate detection automation tools: a head-to-head comparison study

2023 London
Clark, Bateup , Fulbright , Forbes, Gruber , Hair , Qureshi, Stansfield , Steel , Thomas
Background: A key task when conducting a systematic review is to identify and remove duplicate records retrieved by a literature search across multiple databases, a process referred to as deduplication. Deduplication is time-consuming and error prone, particularly when processing thousands of…

Poster A comparison of two search filters for economic evaluations. The CADTH Narrow vs the NHS EED search filter

2023 London
Moberg, Berg, Eriksson, Lundqvist, Wiss, Ringborg
Objectives: The aim of this project was to evaluate if the CADTH narrow economic search filter (CADTH narrow) could produce a similar sensitivity to the NHS EED search filter (NHS EED) while achieving a lower number needed to read (NNR) when searching for economic evaluations in the Ovid MEDLINE…

Poster A comprehensive approach to assess the existing evidence and appropriateness of anticancer drugs on advanced cancer: the ASTAC project

2023 London
Bracchiglione, Santero, Salazar, Rodríguez-Grijalva, Requeijo, Meade, Selva, Savall, Merchan, Cantero, Hernández, Meza, Acosta-Dighero, Quintana, Bonfill
Background: Appropriateness of Systemic Treatments for Advanced Cancers (ASTAC) is a collaborative research project aiming to assess the appropriateness of anticancer drugs in advanced digestive non-intestinal cancers (ADNIC), contributing to reduce potential scenarios of misuse. Objective: To…

Poster A conceptual framework of evidence synthesis for using real-world data to improve childhood cancer health outcomes and resource use in Egypt

2023 London
Soliman
Background: Given the large number of children with cancer in Egypt, the limited resources, and the inferior survival outcomes, there is an urgent need to better utilise available resources to improve care and outcomes efficiently based on evidence. However, there is a gap in knowledge about…

Poster A critical historical review shows mismatch between available evidence and related international guidelines recommendations: the case of advanced oesophageal cancer

2023 London
Santero, Savall Esteve, Bracchiglione, Requeijo, Bonfill Cosp
Background: In the case of advanced oesophageal cancer (AOC) patients, whose prognosis is very poor, most clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) recommend the use of anticancer drugs over best supportive care (BSC) alone, but these recommendations may not have taken into account all the available…

Poster A cross-sectional analysis of the use of data visualisation in scoping reviews and evidence maps

2023 London
South, Rodgers
Background Scoping reviews are well-suited to visually presenting data due to their focus on mapping evidence. A wide range of data visualisation methods and tools are available to researchers, including tools to create interactive data visualisations. Interactive data visualisation allows easy…

Poster A descriptive analysis of funding in research articles published in Revista médica de Chile between 2017-2021.

2023 London
Flores, Briceño, Morales, Cabrera, Villagran, Grandi, Riva, Cruzat, Garnham, Meza, Madrid, Bracchiglione
Background: Revista Médica de Chile (RMC) is the oldest Chilean journal of medical science. It is responsible for publishing original articles monthly which include a broad spectrum of the medical fields and receive papers from different countries. It is the Chilean journal of health science with…

Poster A method for quantifying the generalizability of meta-analysis results in clinical practice: meta-epidemiologic cohort study approach with three eye-opening examples

2023 London
Merrelaar, Schwameis, Buchtele, Titz, Kienbacher, Warenits, Boegl, Lipa, Arrich, Herkner
Background: The generalizability and applicability of meta-analyses from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is often discussed and is part of the GRADE assessment. Objective: Our aim was to quantify generalizability using three prominent evidence syntheses from the field of critical care and…

Poster A new online course on Campbell Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Methods

2023 London
Valentine, Littell, Young, Pigott, Premji, Engelbert
Background: Many systematic reviews are conducted by research teams with deep domain knowledge but little experience or expertise in evidence synthesis methods. One goal of the Campbell Collaboration is to provide training for the conduct of high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the…

Poster A new taxonomy is proposed for defining the interests of stakeholders’ representatives in health research

2023 London
Akl, Khabsa, Schünemann, Tomlinson, Parker, Tugwell, Concannon
Background: There are concerns about bias arising from the interests that stakeholder representatives may bring into the process of health research. Objectives: To distinguish between the legitimate interests of stakeholder groups and the conflicts of interests of their representatives.…

Poster A passing grade? How risk communication strategies aligned with citizen's efforts to access health information during COVID-19: A rapid review

2023 London
Thai, Hopkins , Stoby, Hagerman, Sala, Neumann, Ford, Dobbins
Background: Risk communication strategies have been employed during public health crises. However, there is a need to determine which strategies were effective during the COVID-19 pandemic and how these aligned with individuals’ experiences accessing and interacting with information. Objectives:…

Poster A question of balance : Sustainability and Ethics of drug pricing : A Systematic Review

2023 London
CHA, Lee
Background: Sustainability in healthcare is a crucial concept in public health, and currently, there are ongoing debates regarding controlling the high cost of drugs in many countries, including the United States and the Republic of Korea. Each country manages access to high-cost drugs differently…

Poster A rapid, fit-for-purpose QES for a WHO guideline: processes and challenges

2023 London
Brand, Rohwer, Naude
Background: The evidence-to-decision (EtD) criteria for World Health Organization (WHO) guideline development requires the explicit consideration of acceptability, feasibility and equity implications of interventions. We were commissioned by WHO to produce a qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) on…

Poster A repository of Cochrane nutrition systematic reviews: providing a nutrition lens on the Cochrane Library

2023 London
Naude, Visser, Brand, Durão
Background: Cochrane Nutrition aims to support and enable evidence-informed decision-making for nutrition policy and practice by advancing the preparation and use of high quality, relevant nutrition reviews. Supporting the use of Cochrane nutrition reviews includes making them easy to find.…

Poster A scientific initiation underpinned in free Cochrane materials is feasible and effective in delivering high-quality training to undergraduates.

2023 London
Fontes, Cordeiro, Pires de Castro Miranda
Background: To encourage and support new incomers is one of Cochrane’s priorities according to its strategic plan. The Cochrane Training website provides several learning opportunities, with emphasis on reading, preparing, conducting, and publishing systematic reviews. There are tools and online…

Poster A test to assess claims about treatment effects for Spanish primary school children: the development and validation of the interactive CLAIM Test

2023 London
Samsó Jofra, Sanz-Herranz, Martínez García
Background: The main objective of the Informed Health Choices (IHC) project is to teach people to assess treatment claims and make informed health choices. For this purpose, the Claim Evaluation Tools item bank was developed to measure people’s ability to apply the IHC key concepts (concepts that…