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Poster Creation of a non-English speaking branch of CCNet: the Iberoamerican Network of Consumers
2009 Singapore
Cattivera, Pardo Pardo
Background: Participation of Spanish-speaking consumers is really low. After organizing training activities on evidence-based health care for consumers in different countries, there is an interest for consumers to be involved, but there is a lack of follow-up and capacity building. One of the…
Poster Creative e-teaching and e-learning of evidence-based medicine in resident physicians by multimedia technology
2009 Singapore
Huang, Huang, Yang
Background: Several collaborations contribute to systematically integrate medical publications to make the growing body of information practical in daily practice. The early implementation of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to physicians is an important issue. Traditional teaching and learning are…
Poster Developing rapid evidence summaries to aid decision making following a natural disaster
2009 Singapore
Evidence Summaries Team
Background: In response to the 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia, rapid summaries of evidence concerning the emergency management of burns that could be used by agencies or groups developing clinical practice guidelines and promoting best front-line practice were produced. Objectives: To…
Poster Development of a systematic review unit of the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society (SDGC)
2009 Singapore
K Diener, Jensen, Grummich, Contin, N Rahbari, N Wente, M Seiler
Background: The aim of the Study Centre of the German Surgical Society (SDGC) is to design, conduct and analyze multicentre randomized controlled trials on the basis of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The development of a specialized surgical systematic review unit will be presented in the…
Oral Differential reporting of subgroup analyses in trials between high impact and lower impact journals
2009 Singapore
Sun, Briel, Akl, Busse, Diaz-Granado, Majza, Bala, You, Srinathan, Alshurafa, Walter, Guyatt
Background: Several studies have examined the reporting of subgroup analyses (SAs) in randomized trials. All have, however, focused on the highest impact or specialty medical journals. Objectives: To investigate, in randomized trials published in high impact (i.e. NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, and…
Poster Do patient characteristics influence accuracy of hysterosalpingography in the diagnosis of tubal pathology? An individual patient data meta-analysis
2009 Singapore
Broeze, C Opmeer, Coppus, Den Hartog, Van Der Linden, Strandell
Background: Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a commonly used step in the diagnostic work-up of subfertile couples for the diagnosis of tubal pathology, whereas a definite diagnosis by diagnostic laparoscopy is deferred for six to twelve months in case of a normal HSG. Test accuracy of HSG, i.e.…
Poster Does the message still reflect the evidence?
2009 Singapore
Nasser, Bastian, Knelangen, Waltering
Background: The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) summarizes over 100 systematic reviews per year for patients on the website Gesundheitsinformation.de (InformedHealthOnline.org). Objective: To develop an efficient method to judge whether the message in the research…
Poster Editorial policy and the reporting of randomized controlled trials in Indian medical journals in 2004–2005 versus 2007–2008
2009 Singapore
George, Kirubakaran, Barnabas, Yamuna, Raj
Background: Editorial requirements for submission of reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Indian medical journals in 2005 and the quality of reporting of RCTs in 2004 and 2005 were suboptimal (National Medical Journal of India 2008; 21:62-8). Objectives: To assess changes in editorial…
Poster Effective collaboration between the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group and the World Health Organization
2009 Singapore
Horvath, Siegfried, Kennedy, Humphreys, Rutherford
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) is international public health’s major coordinating authority. The HIV/AIDS pandemic presents WHO with an unprecedented challenge. Over the past decade, the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Review Group (CRG) and WHO have collaborated several times on HIV/AIDS…
Oral Empirical evidence about heterogeneity in Cochrane reviews
2009 Singapore
Davey, Turner, Clarke, Higgins
Background: It is unlikely that all studies in a meta-analysis are estimating the same underlying effect or relationship, and the variation in these quantities is frequently referred to as (statistical) heterogeneity. Such variation can be ignored, investigated or incorporated into a random-effects…
Poster Empirical evidence on the validity of adjusted indirect comparison: an updated review
2009 Singapore
Song, Loke, Walsh, Glenny, Eastwood, Deeks, Altman
Background: Adjusted indirect comparison (AIC) has been increasingly used in health technology assessment because of a lack of trial data from direct head-to-head comparisons. Objective: To conduct an updated methodology review on the validity of adjusted indirect comparison. Methods: We searched…
Oral Endorsement of the CONSORT Statement in Chinese medical journals: a survey of Instruction to Authors
2009 Singapore
Shang, Hu
Background: There is evidence that the endorsement of the CONSORT Statement by journals has a positive impact on the reporting quality of RCTs. Objectives: To assess the extent to which Chinese medical journals indexed in MEDLINE or EMBASE have incorporated CONSORT into their Instruction to Authors…
Poster Energized devices in thyroideal surgery: an example of a standardized data extraction sheet for surgical systematic reviews
2009 Singapore
Contin, Diener, Jensen, Rahbari, Seiler
Background: Systematic reviews evaluating the benefits and harms of surgical interventions are an example for non-pharmacological complex interventions focusing on specific methodological and clinical challenges. Data extraction of eligible studies is an essential step and therefore validated tools…
Poster Evaluating the impact of the ViTaMIN (Virtual Training and Mentoring International Network) project
2009 Singapore
Nasser, Fedorowicz, Sequeira, De Souza, Javaheri
Background: Virtual communities provide the potential to increase participation in evidence-based practice in addition to bringing together a range of cultural perspectives and experiences of different healthcare systems. Since 2006 the Bahrain Branch (UK Cochrane Centre) together with the Iranian…
Poster Evaluation of harms in HTAs and systematic reviews of drug interventions
2009 Singapore
Wieseler, Vervölgyi, Kaiser
Background: Investigating harms of interventions is as important as investigating benefits, with the aim of providing a benefit/harm ratio. Methods for evaluating harms are still under discussion. Objective: To investigate the methods applied in HTAs/systematic reviews (SRs) for evaluating the harms…
Oral Evaluation of novelty bias in multiple-treatments metaregression within and between networks of comparison
2009 Singapore
Salanti, Ioannidis, Dias, Welton, Kyrgiou, Golfinopoulos, Mauri, Ades
Background: Multiple-treatments meta-analyses (MTM) are increasingly used to evaluate the relative effectiveness of several competing regimens. In some fields which evolve with the continuous introduction of new agents over time, it is possible that in trials comparing older to newer regimens the…
Poster Evidence from The Cochrane Collaboration for traditional Chinese medicine therapies
2009 Singapore
Manheimer, Kimbrough, Wieland, Cheng, M Berman
Background: The Cochrane Collaboration has produced reviews summarizing much of the evidence on traditional Chinese medicine, particularly acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Objective: To review the Cochrane evidence base to date for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies. Methods: We…
Poster Evidence mapping for youth mental health
2009 Singapore
Liu, Callahan, de Silva, Stephen, Hetrick, Parker, Purcell
Background: Mental health disorders, such as depression, substance use disorders, suicide and self-harm, schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorders are prevalent, with the incidence high in young people aged 12–25 years. Internationally, biopsychosocial prevention and early intervention…
Poster Evidence-based health care improvement course
2009 Singapore
Rufino Macedo, Regina Torloni, Riera, Bruni Andriolo, Nazaré Gomes Silva, Eduarda Santos Puga, Pedrosa Vieira, Nagib Atallah
Background: The concepts of evidence-based health care have been introduced in different healthcare sectors in Brazil. Recently, the first improvement course in evidence-based health care was developed in Brazil for healthcare professionals in the Network of Sentinel Hospitals. Objective: To train…
Poster Evidence-based medicine and the right to health care in Brazil
2009 Singapore
Riera, N Atallah, P Vieira, R Macedo, Eduarda S Puga, L Silva, Ishioka, Paula S Zanutti, R Rosa, Ciol, Regina Torloni
Background: According to the Brazilian Constitution, health care is a right granted to all citizens and is the duty of the State, guaranteed by means of social and economic policies that seek to reduce the risk of illness and other injuries and by universal, equal access to healthcare services that…