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Poster How evidence-based are clinical practice guidelines in anaesthesiology: the cases of preoperative care and difficult airway management
2019 Santiago
Ciapponi, Tapia López, Virgilio, Perelli, Cohen Arazi , Bardach
Background: clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in anaesthesiology have diverse methodological quality and have used various evidence-rating systems. It is difficult to properly compare their recommendations without a systematic grading approach.
Objectives: to analyze and describe evidence-…
Poster How hard is to do an overview of Cochrane Reviews? Could CORE outcomes help?
2019 Santiago
Bofill Rodriguez, Jordan, Lethaby, Wise, Farquhar
Over seven thousand Cochrane Reviews have been published since 1995. The first Cochrane overview was published in 1998. There are currently approximately fifty overviews, (fewer than 10 include a network meta-analysis) and 23 overview protocols.
What is the value of an overview? In terms of…
Poster How much attention was paid to patient-reported outcomes in randomized trials and meta-analyses of rectal cancer surgery?
2019 Santiago
Nishizaki, Sumii, Hida, Sakai
Background: high-quality surgical procedures should be based on good surgical outcomes and, ideally, the outcomes should be assessed together with patient involvement. Rectal surgery is associated with high morbidity including sexual, urinary, and bowel dysfunctions. Laparoscopic surgery is…
Poster How systematic reviews of prevalence conduct meta-analysis?
2019 Santiago
Borges Migliavaca, Stein, Colpani, Falavigna
Background: systematic reviews of prevalence estimates are of critical importance for policymakers, health professionals and patients, since they describe the distribution of diseases among different populations and subgroups. Meta-analysis methods can be useful to pool these estimates and generate…
Poster How to perform an advanced electronic search in the health sciences databases LILACS and IBECS
2019 Santiago
Amaral, Medina Molina, Naddeo, Augusto, Piber, Cassola, Prestes, Guedes, Flumignan, Vasconcelos, Nakano, Amorim, Baptista-Silva, Flumignan, Guedes
Background: one of the greatest challenges today is the large amount of information available, especially in health sciences. Databases have been created with the aim of gathering and organizing all the content in some subjects. However, one single database cannot reach all scientific publications…
Poster Impact of incretin-based therapies on abdominal pain among people with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Yu, Gao, Chen, Zeng, Zhan, Sun
Background: as a class of antidiabetic drugs, incretin-based therapies, including dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4Is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), have aroused concerns because of the problems of abdominal pain that may cause withdrawal in people with type 2…
Poster Improving Wikipedia skin disease content
2019 Santiago
Hutton, Dawson, Lee, Shumaker, Doney, Scott, Dellavalle
Background: Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources of health information for the public and appears among the top search engine results for dermatologic diseases. Because of its influence on health information, it is important to ensure that Wikipedia’s content is evidence-based, unbiased,…
Poster Improving the experience of Cochrane podcast listeners: a Croatian case study
2019 Santiago
Zakarija-Grkovic
Background: Cochrane podcasts provide a 3 to 4 minute summary of 'mediagenic' Cochrane Reviews and are delivered in an audio format, freely available on the Cochrane website. The Cochrane Library podcast project was launched in January 2008 and had produced over 1100 podcasts, in more…
Poster Inclusion of alternative study designs for evaluating clinical interventions that require implementation of services in Cochrane Reviews
2019 Santiago
Stojanova, Stojanova
Background: clinical interventions that are complex and involve implementation of a service may be difficult to evaluate by randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
Objectives: the present work aims to evaluate, among Cochrane Reviews, what types of interventions are evaluated by alternative study…
Poster Inclusion of non-randomized studies: reflections from a complex systematic review of multi-component organizational interventions
2019 Santiago
Shaw, Nunns, Briscoe, Thompson Coon, Anderson
Background: randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the most robust form of primary evidence to use when determining the effectiveness of an intervention. However, conducting RCTs may not always be possible due to ethical or implementation issues, resulting in the use of other study designs.…
Poster Inconsistencies are common between non-Cochrane systematic reviews and their protocols registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO)
2019 Santiago
Hu, Zhang, Zhang, Kwong, Ma, Ma, Yang
Background: by publishing research protocols and defining hypothesis prior to conducting a study and analyzing the results, it is possible to minimize the risk of bias associated with a given study.
Objectives: we compared published non-Cochrane systematic reviews with their registered…
Poster Increasing the impact of Cochrane reviews by editing Wikipedia
2019 Santiago
Tasnim, Tang, Wright
Background: WikiProject medicine is a partnership between Wikipedia and Cochrane where the goal is to provide reliable and up-to-date health information. As Cochrane authors of a review on the effect of alcohol on blood pressure, we decided to contribute to editing the Wikipedia pages on alcohol…
Poster Influence of colour-coded communication on biomonitoring results obtained in subsequent years among coke plant workers
2019 Santiago
Zajac, Helbin, Potocki, Bala
Background: workers exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are monitored using different biomarkers to assess exposition and efficiency of personal protection equipment. Moreover, informing workers about their exposure levels can induce positive changes in their behaviour and adherence to…
Poster Information literacy for users at the National Medical Library of Cuba: Cochrane Library course on searching for the best evidence for clinical decision-making
2019 Santiago
Gonzalez Rivero, Santana Arroyo
The National Medical Library of Cuba is currently developing an information literacy programme to train users in the use of biomedical databases. This paper describes the experience with the course 'Cochrane Library: Evidence-Based Medicine', which aims to teach users methods for making…
Poster Intelligent Related Citation Searching (IRIS) – development and validation of a new approach to identifying studies
2019 Santiago
Abou-Setta, Al-Yousif, Lam, Racovitan, Copstein, Jeyaraman, Okoli, Rabbani, Tricco
Background: the sensitivity of a systematic or rapid review search strategy can be tested against citations of studies that are deemed to meet the inclusion criteria. Even so, these citations themselves have been shown to be similar to other studies that will eventually be included in the final…
Poster Interventions for reducing violence against children: an Evidence and Gap Map in low- and middle-income countries
2019 Santiago
Saran, Pundir, White, Subrahmanian , Adona
Background: more than one billion children, half the children in the world, are victims of violence every year. Violence against children includes all forms of violence against children under 18 years old, whether perpetrated by parents or other caregivers, peers, romantic partners, or strangers.…
Poster Introduction of high evidence knowledge into daily surgical practice in El Salvador
2019 Santiago
Rodriguez, Molina González, Ortiz Segura, Osorio Chávez, Salgado Rauda
Background: variations in medical practice have been studied since the late 1960s, and are known to introduce inequity, injustice and waste of resources in healthcare systems. Evidence-based medicine was one of the proposals for a solution to diminish variations in medical practice caused by the…
Poster Knowledge translation (KT) to close the know-do gap: extending research benefits to healthcare consumers in India
2019 Santiago
Sinha, Pradhan, Srivastava
Background: the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is the apex body in India for formulating, coordinating, and promoting research through its 26 constituent research institutions. These institutions are working on disease-specific areas to generate new evidence and knowledge products.…
Poster Knowledge translation of traditional chinese medicine of Cochrane Systematic Reviews through WeChat public platform
2019 Santiago
Wang, Luo, Ma, Liu, Yu, Estill, Chen
Background: the number of systematic reviews (SRs) published in the Cochrane Library about complementary and alternative medicine is increasing annually. However, there are few studies on knowledge translation and utilization in this field. How to select and translate high-quality evidence on…
Poster Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) for alcohol addiction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2019 Santiago
Posadzki
Background: the average prevalence of herbals use in the general population of the UK is 37.1%, and herbals are ranked as the most popular type of complementary and alternative medicine. The reasons for this popularity are complex, but presumed safety and effectiveness might play a role. Kudzu (…