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Poster Peer-review publication of a new drug technology following initial appearance at a large hematology conference: implications for patients, clinicians, researchers and policy-makers

2008 Freiburg
Kho, Brouwers
Background: Conference abstracts, often the first public record of a study, serve as a catalyst to initiate clinical and policy change. On average, 45% of all conference abstracts subsequently appear in the peer-review literature, however the generalizability of this finding to studies of one…

Poster Physicians’ willingness to ration health care: a systematic review of survey findings

2008 Freiburg
Strech, Persad, Marckmann, Danis
Background: A broad spectrum of quantitative survey research has been conducted internationally to gather empirical information about physicians’ general attitude towards healthcare rationing (HCR). Are physicians ready to accept and implement healthcare rationing, or are they reluctant? Do they…

Oral Plain language summary format for Cochrane reviews: results of user testing

2008 Freiburg
Santesso, Glenton, Nilsen, Rosenbaum, Rader, Pardo, Ciapponi, Hill, Ryan, Dilkes
Background: Guidelines to write Plain Language Summaries (PLS) in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions are helpful, but leave writers with flexibility and creativity, which can lead to conflicting and imprecise reporting, as well as misinterpretation of the summaries. In…

Poster Predictors of evidence-based knowledge in Italian doctors

2008 Freiburg
Cinquini, Moja, Moschetti, Sala, Torri, Liberati
Background: In the last decade many countries have legislated the recertification of medical practitioners within their health systems. Evidence-based medical knowledge is increasingly seen as an essential requirement to demonstrate that doctors are clinically competent to perform certain roles. A…

Oral Preventing infections in cancer patients: what influences the guidelines?

2008 Freiburg
Herbst, Monsef, Naumann, Bohlius, Engert
Background: Infections in cancer patients receiving myeloablative chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation are potentially life threatening. Both antibiotics and granulocyte colony stimulating factors have shown to be effective in preventing infections. Most current guidelines, however, recommend…

Poster Prioritisation of Cochrane reviews for consumers and the public to promote evidence-based health care

2008 Freiburg
Belizan, Vij, Wale, Zelmer, Whamond
Background: The Cochrane Consumer Network provides an end-user perspective on Cochrane reviews during development and facilitates dissemination of findings. Its members are individual consumers and members of patient-support organisations. This prioritisation project was funded by the Cochrane…

Poster Prioritising the updating of systematic reviews

2008 Freiburg
Takwoingi, Sutton, Donegan, Garner, Gamble, Donald
Background: About 2500 new systematic reviews are indexed annually on MEDLINE, of which about one-fifth are Cochrane reviews. Systematic reviews should be kept up to date to ensure their validity and relevance, but there is limited methodology to inform the review updating process [1].…

Oral Prioritizing clinical research together with patients’ associations: early steps from the PartecipaSalute project

2008 Freiburg
Colombo, Satolli, Liberati, Mosconi
Background: PartecipaSalute (‘Participate in Health Care’), developed with the support of a non profit bank foundation, is a project started in September 2003 with the aim to: increase patients’ associations’ involvement in the healthcare debate and in decision-making processes, also in the…

Workshop Publication ethics and Cochrane reviews

2008 Freiburg
Sampson, Wager, Fiack
Objectives: To give participants a broad understanding of the issues involved in publication ethics and of the roles of journal editors, publishers, authors and reviewers in achieving best practice and to understand how Cochrane review groups can ensure ethical publication processes. Description:…

Oral Publication of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials: preliminary evidence of bias

2008 Freiburg
Gilbody, Sutton, Bower
Background: Publication bias occurs when studies with results that are statistically significant, interesting, from large well-funded studies, or of higher quality are more likely to be published more rapidly than work without these characteristics. This fact has been well demonstrated in the…

Poster Quality assessment of studies for double-reading (DR) of screening mammograms and breast-ultrasound (BU) after negative screening-mammogram: contribution of the QUADAS (Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) tool

2008 Freiburg
Nothacker, Weinbrenner
Background: The QUADAS tool was developed 2003 and validated 2006. As generic instrument for diagnostic accuracy studies it was developed with an option to amend/modify items for specific topics. For a guideline update on early diagnosis of breast cancer an evidence-report of trials concerning…

Poster Quality improvement in the care of depressive disorders: transfer of evaluated quality management practice tools into routine

2008 Freiburg
Komarahadi, Bermejo, Peetz, Borgert, Härter
Background: The introduction of evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and therapy of depressive disorders has considerably improved the treatment process and outcome of this disorders. Health providers in primary care have a key role for the detection and initiation of an adequate treatment…

Poster Quality of evidence informing clinical guidelines on treatment of opioid dependence

2008 Freiburg
Davoli, Amato, Hill, Minozzi, Clark, Poznyak
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) developed guidelines for psychosocially assisted pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence applying GRADE methodology. Objectives: To analyse how many recommendations are supported by Cochrane reviews (CRs), relative quality of evidence, and…

Poster Quantification of bias in the results of non-randomised studies compared with randomised studies

2008 Freiburg
Beynon, Savovic, Harris, Altman, Sterne, Deeks
Background: Evidence for bias in the results of studies using nonrandomised allocation has previously been examined by comparing the results of non-randomised with randomised studies of the same intervention, and accumulating such comparisons across many interventions. Previous studies have been…

Workshop Reaching the end users through effective and safe patient-centred health care - what CCNet can provide

2008 Freiburg
Wale, Simi, Yaron, Lyddiatt
Abstract: The strength of the Cochrane Consumer Network (CCNet) is that it is a network of international consumers. CCNet strives to operate as a diverse community, each of us with legitimate differences of opinion, style, beliefs and purposes. We have the common aim of promoting safe and effective…

Poster Reasons or excuses for avoiding meta-analysis in forest plots

2008 Freiburg
Patsopoulos, Ioannidis, Rothstein
Background: Some systematic reviews assemble the eligible studies without performing meta-analysis. This may be a legitimate choice. However, an interesting situation arises when reviews present forest plots, but do not calculate a summary. These imply that it is important to visualize the…

Workshop Register & handsearch submissions for CENTRAL: all you need is trials!

2008 Freiburg
Higgins
Objectives: Trial Search coordinators submit their registers and handsearch records each quarter for publication in the Cochrane Library. This workshop will discuss the current process of submitting registers and handsearch records for publication as CENTRAL in the Cochrane Library. Summary: This…

Oral Repurposing Cochrane reviews for a community health information project in Sierra Leone: Malaria prevention

2008 Freiburg
Weightman, M’Jamtu-Sie, Gage, Cole, Godbolt
Objectives: The objectives of the project are to: 1. promote active health improvement in the rural areas of Sierra Leone by developing a network of resource centres, each staffed by a health promoter within an existing library, health clinic or other community setting; 2. locate, repackage and/or…

Workshop RevMan 5 for Cochrane Diagnostic test accuracy reviews

2008 Freiburg
Leeflang, Moore, Moustgaard, Hooft
Abstract:The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with an understanding of how RevMan 5 will be used to prepare Cochrane Diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) reviews. At the end of the workshop, participants will have been introduced to the various features in RevMan 5 that are specific…

Workshop RevMan 5 for Cochrane Intervention review authors - learn to use all the features hands-on.

2008 Freiburg
Pienaar, Cahill, Kjeldstrom, Nasser
Objectives: The purpose of this workshop is to provide review authors with an understanding of how RevMan 5 is different from RevMan 4. At the end of the workshop, participants will have been introduced to the new features in RevMan 5 and received guidance in the use of the software. Description:…