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Poster Descriptive analysis of the first 1000 trials in Pan African Clinical Trial Registry (PACTR)

2018 Edinburgh
Ndwandwe, Pienaar, Mathebula , Reddy, Abrams, Lutje, Kredo
Background: A clinical trials registry is a database in which key administrative and scientific information about planned, ongoing and completed trials is stored. The Pan African Clinical Trials Register (PACTR) aims to assist regional efforts towards transparency and harmonization of clinical…

Poster Design and validation of a search filter for LGBTQ+ populations

2018 Edinburgh
Parker, Wanner, Foster, Lackey
Background: The health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people is a subject area that is challenging to search due to variant and changing terminology, which presents a challenge when developing comprehensive searches for systematic reviews on health topics specific to…

Poster Determining the degree of dissemination bias for health-related quality of life outcomes in antidepressant trials

2018 Edinburgh
Sharma, Rasmussen, Paludan-Müller , Gøtzsche
Background: Dissemination bias distorts the true effectiveness of interventions, leading to unreliable results. Though health-related quality of life outcomes have been used in antidepressant trials, their results have rarely been published. Objectives: To determine the level of selective…

Poster Developing the updating strategy for the European Breast Guidelines within the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer

2018 Edinburgh
Parmelli, Saz Parkinson , Lerda, Alonso-Coello, Martínez García
Background: The Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) asked the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) to co-ordinate the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (ECIBC), which aims to ensure and harmonise the quality of care across Europe via the…

Poster Development of a questionnaire measuring individual goals of health information seeking (GAINS)

2018 Edinburgh
Chasiotis, Wedderhoff, Rosman, Mayer
Background: Individual goals of health information seeking have been widely neglected by previous research, let alone systematically assessed. Identifying these goals, however, would facilitate meeting patients´ and relatives´ health information needs by providing information tailored to their…

Poster Development of workable solutions to overcome known limitations of overview methodology

2018 Edinburgh
Broderick, Irving, Shokraneh, Ostinelli, Walshe, Mockler, Adams
Background: Overviews are a relatively new phenomenon borne out of the need to combine a number of systematic reviews for clinical decision making and policy development. Even though great strides have been made in overview methodology, considerable heterogeneity pertains to this form of evidence…

Poster Discovering the voice of the Cochrane Library customer

2018 Edinburgh
Simmonds, Pentesco-Murphy
Background and project goals: The Cochrane Library provides systemic reviews of medical evidence. Users of the Library include medical practitioners, researchers, government workers, institutes, companies and other professionals, and the public. Cochrane would like to measure how satisfied these…

Poster Discussion section of Cochrane Reviews: is it supported by systematic reviews?

2018 Edinburgh
Glujovsky, Bardach, Comande, Ciapponi
Background: Any Cochrane Review is usually considered by readers to be an important piece of research. Although the Methods and Results sections are based on a systematic approach, the Discussion section may not be. Some readers (patients, other researchers and healthcare workers) retrieve…

Poster EBM and research methodology education programs - how and when to teach: local experience at University of Valparaiso Medical School, Chile

2018 Edinburgh
Loezar , Papuzinski, Jahr, Ulloa, Vargas, Pérez-Bracchiglione, Arancibia, Madrid
Background: Critical thinking and research are considered priority domains for medical education and their introduction into the medical curriculum significantly improves learning. The School of Medicine at the University of Valparaíso has offered a competency-based curriculum since 2005, which…

Poster Education efforts towards patients' knowledge and attitudes regarding clinical research: a mixed methods pilot study

2018 Edinburgh
Liang, Li, Liu
Background and objective: Patients' knowledge and attitudes regarding clinical research may affect study recruitment and adherence. Efforts to enhance patients' understanding and to learn about their concerns around involvement in clinical research are necessary. Methods: We…

Poster Effectiveness of strategies to reduce low-value care: a systematic review of de-implementation studies

2018 Edinburgh
Heus, van Dulmen, Weenink, Naaktgeboren, Verkerk, van der Laan, Kool, Hooft
Background: Reducing low-value care is not straightforward and often hampered by barriers on different levels. Active strategies containing multiple interventions and addressing both healthcare providers and patients seem to have the highest potential for success. However, patients and clinicians…

Poster Elucidating the impact of having multiple chronic conditions using systematic review and meta-analysis: the case of preventive statin therapy

2018 Edinburgh
Jadotte, Slyer, Holly, Salmond
Background: Patients with multiple chronic conditions are among the largest consumers of healthcare and face substantial health disparities. Randomized controlled trials have not sufficiently studied these populations, while observational studies face the problem of confounding by indication,…

Poster Encouraging the use of EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines in Brazil

2018 Edinburgh
Riera, Pacheco, Pachito, Latorraca, Martimbianco, Logullo, Atallah
Background: The EQUATOR Network (Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research) includes more than 250 guidelines for reporting different study designs in health. Despite the existence of such guidelines, a considerable number of studies are improperly reported, undermining the…

Poster Engaging patients as advisors in systematic reviews: co-building the science to enhance impact and meaning for patients

2018 Edinburgh
Gierisch, Goldstein, Gordon , Nagi, Williams
Background: While trialists show growing interest in methods to involve patients as advisors, there has been less focus on patient-engaged research in evidence synthesis and little practical guidance about how to involve patient perspectives in systematic reviews. Objectives: To explore optimal…

Poster Engaging with the public to co-produce a framework for involving the public when developing national clinical guidelines or audit

2018 Edinburgh
Lambert, O'Connor, Matthews, Corrigan, Kirwan, Doyle
Background: Involving the public (including patients) in national clinical guideline and audit development is important because public perspectives of healthcare processes, priorities and outcomes may differ from those of healthcare professionals. Issues that the public are really interested in are…

Poster Epidemiology of systematic reviews in imaging journals

2018 Edinburgh
Alabousi, Alabousi, McGrath, Cobey, Budhram, Frank, Nguyen, Salameh, Sharifabadi, McInnes
Background: Publication rates for systematic reviews (SRs) have grown, while the rate of publication of original research may not be keeping pace. It is unclear whether these trends are sustainable and are reflected in imaging research. Objectives: To evaluate the epidemiological…

Poster Estimating the parameters to a bivariate random-effects model in test accuracy meta-analysis using standard approaches

2018 Edinburgh
Willis, Baragilly, Coomar
Background: A bivariate generalised linear mixed model is often used for meta-analysis of test accuracy studies. The model is complex and although packages have emerged to estimate the model’s five parameters they remain opaque to many. Here we present two standard approaches to deriving maximum…

Poster Evaluating people’s ability to assess treatment claims: validation of a test in Mandarin developed from the Claim Evaluation Tools database

2018 Edinburgh
Wang, Austvoll-Dahlgren, Zhou, Yang, Zhang, Chen, Yang
Background: Improving people's critical skills and, more specifically, their ability to assess treatment claims, is essential for informed decision-making. Currently, there is no procedure or instrument available for assessing such abilities in China. The Informed Health Choice (IHC) Claim…

Poster Evaluation of baseline adherence to the PRISMA-DTA reporting guideline

2018 Edinburgh
Salameh, McInnes, Moher, Bossuyt, Thombs, Krajipool, McGrath, Levis, Frank, Sharifabadi
Objective: To evaluate the adherence of recently published diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic reviews (SR) to PRISMA-DTA and PRISMA-DTA for abstracts to identify areas of deficiency in reporting. Methods: We searched MEDLINE for DTA SR published between 31 October 2017 and 20 January…

Poster Evaluation of the impact of evidence-based health care education for Chinese medicine practitioners

2018 Edinburgh
Wong, Chung , Wu , Ho , Cheung , Wu
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Traditional Medicine Strategy aims to develop complementary medicine with an evidence-based health care (EBHC) approach. Chinese medicine is the main form of complementary medicine in China but EBHC training for practitioners is minimal. To increase…