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Poster 'Hit, Miss or Maybe". An Analysis of the Usefulness ofCochrane Reviews to Commissioners of Health Care in one Health Region in the UK.

1999 Rome

Young, Fry-Smith

Introduction: ARIF is a unit that was set up in the West Midlands in 1996 to "Advance the use of evidence on the effects of health care in the region." This objective is achieved largely through the provision of timely access to, and advice on the application of, evidence from existing…

Poster A Comparison of Cochrane Reviews with Meta-Analyses Published in High Impact Journals

1999 Rome

Schwarzer, Egger, Tallon, Sterne, Antes

Introduction: Objectives: To compare reporting and methodological quality, pooled treatment effects and evidence of publication bias of meta-analyses from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews with meta-analyses published in leading general and specialist English-language journals.…

Poster A Randomized Trial Of The Preference Of Gastroenterologists For A Cochrane Review Versus A Traditional Review

1999 Rome

McDonald, Mahon, Zarnke, Feagan, Tucker

Introduction: Objectives: To assess preferences for a Cochrane review (CR) vs a traditional review (TR) as a guide for therapy of Crohn's disease (CD). Methods: Gastroenterologists were randomized to receive either the CR of azathioprine (Aza) tor induction ot remission of CD, a relevant…

Oral A Systematic Analysis of Process Evaluations

1999 Rome

Weston, Harden, Oakley

Introduction: There is an urgent need to address the lack of consensus on systematic criteria for assessing qualitative evaluations as part of systematic reviews and effectiveness research. Process evaluations, in particular, often illuminate the design, methodology and outcomes of experimental…

Oral A Systematic Review of Prophylactic Mastectomy

1999 Rome

Wallace, Rosso, Drummond, Lostumbo, Carbine

Introduction: This systematic review group is comprised solely of consumers. This group was formed by a group of women who are graduates of Project LEAD, a science course to train breast cancer survivors as activists to influence policies regarding breast cancer, developed by the National Breast…

Poster A Systematic Review of Psychotherapies in Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Related EDNOS Syndromes.

1999 Rome

Hay, Bacaltchuk

Introduction: Objectives: The review aims to evaluate the differing psychotherapeutic treatments that have been evaluated in randomised controlled trials of those with binge eating syndromes. Specifically cognitive-behavioural(CBT) therapy is compared with waiting list or a non-treatment group,…

Poster A database of Informatics Evaluation in Primary Care

1999 Rome

Sullivan, Mitchell

Introduction: Objectives: To develop database of research into the impact of computers on the outcomes of primary care consultations. Methods: A review of the literature from 1980 to the present was conducted. The databases of Medline, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index,…

Oral A waste of time? What can or cannot be gained from systematic reviews when the available research is of questionable quality

1999 Rome

Soares

Introduction: Those conducting systematic reviews have to decide what type of trials to include. The absence of a sufficient number of 'high quality' RCTs evaluating a given intervention is widely regarded as indicating that there is no point in doing a systematic review. Methods: Over…

Poster Aggregate Data Meta-Analysis With Time-To Event Outcomes: A Tutorial

1999 Rome

Tudur, Williamson, Khan, Sutton

Introduction: Collecting individual patient data (IPD) has been described as the 'gold standard' for undertaking meta-analysis. This involves collecting data on each individual patient entered into each trial from relevant authors, in contrast to an aggregate data meta-analysis (AD) which…

Poster An Explicit Approach to Applying the Results of Cochrane Reviews to High-Risk Populations

1999 Rome

Morris, Mayer

Introduction: Australian Aborginal children experience extremely high rates of bacterial respiratory infections. In contrast to non-Aboriginal children, adverse outcomes are frequent. Objectives: To describe an explicit approach to the presentation and interpretation of randomised controlled…

Poster Antibiotics versus Placebo in the Common Cold

1999 Rome

Arroll, Kenealy

Introduction: Objectives: The objective of this review was to assess the effects of antibiotics as treatment for the common cold. Methods: We searched the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, Medline, Embase, the Family Medicine Database, and reference lists of articles, and we contacted…

Oral Are systematic reviews in danger of amplifying the unimportant questions? The case of dermatology

1999 Rome

Naldi

Introduction: The Cochrane initiative stems from the assumption that clinical research is, to a large extent, focused on important clinical questions and that variations in study results mainly depend on random errors. As a consequence, a large emphasis is laid on the search for all the available…

Poster Assessing Leg Ulcer Prevalence Studies: Conceptual, Methodological and Practical Issues

1999 Rome

Harrison, Lorimer, Graham, Friedberg, Threinen, Nicholson, Coke

Introduction: To inform a reorganization of services related to chronic wounds, a leg ulcer prevalence study was conducted in one large, mixed urban-rural, Canadian region (n= 800,000). As a first step in planning, it was important to understand the magnitude of the problem. The accuracy of…

Poster Assessing and Addressing the Perceived Barriers to Evidence-Based Stroke Rehabilitation

1999 Rome

Pollock, Legg, Langhorne, Sellars

Introduction: Objectives: The Stroke Therapy Evaluation Programme (STEP) has the broad objective of encouraging the implementation of evidence-based stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to determine the perceived barriers to evidence-based stroke rehabilitation among health-care…

Poster Assessing the Quality of Primary Studies: Empirical Study of Meta-Analyses Published in Leading Journals

1999 Rome

Tallon, Juni, Egger

Introduction: Objectives: To examine the methods used for assessing the quality of component studies in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials published in English-language medical journals. Methods: A handsearch 1993-1997 of four general medicine journals (Ann Intern Med, BMJ, Lancet,…

Poster Assessing the Quality of Reporting Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

1999 Rome

Shea, Moher, Pham, Tugwell

Introduction: Evidence-Based Health Care [EBHC] is becoming increasingly popular and at least in some settings is being used to assist in the creation of health care policy. Health care providers and consumers need to be confident that the results from meta-analyses are as free as possible from…

Poster Assessing the Quality of Reports of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses: A Systematic Review of Checklists and Scales

1999 Rome

Shea, Dube, Moher

Introduction: Readers need to be confident that the results from meta-analyses (MAs) are as free as possible of bias. MAs with minimal bias are more likely to be valid and to be more widely disseminated into effective health care practice and policy. One way to assess the merits of MAs is to assess…

Oral Bad examples of Interference In the conduct and publication of clinical research

1999 Rome

Olivieri

Introduction: Abstract not available

Poster Behavioural therapy for chronic low back pain: how to interpret meta-analyses combining studies with multiple effect sizes?

1999 Rome

van, Scholten

Introduction: Objectives: Methods: A meta-analysis of behavioural therapy for chronic low back pain has been conducted within the framework of the Cochrane Collaboration. Twenty RCTs were included in this review. Within every study, standardised mean differences (SMD) were computed for each…

Poster Beyond Clinical Effectiveness - the Role of the UK NHS Economic Evaluation Database in Providing Best Evidence for Health Care

1999 Rome

Stoykova, Nixon, Glanville, Christie, Drummond, Kleijnen

Introduction: The NHS EED Project is commissioned by the UK NHS to identify papers on economic evaluations of health, and to disseminate the principal findings to clinicians, decision makers, and researchers through structured abstracts available on the public database. Furthermore, the abstracts…