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Oral Shared decision making does not influence physicians against clinical practice guidelines
2013 Québec City
Guerrier, Légaré, Labrecque, Rivest
Background: While shared decision making (SDM) and adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are important, some believe they are incompatible.
Objectives: This study explored the mutual influence between physicians’ intention to engage in SDM and their intention to follow CPGs.…
Workshop Sharing evidence through Twitter
2013 Québec City
Chapman, Millward
Objectives:
To enable participants to share evidence, engaging with different audiences, for maximum effect and impact, through Twitter.
Description:
We are now engaging with consumers, health professionals and voluntary organisations every day, disseminating and discussing Cochrane…
Oral Sharing evidence with clinicians in ethically sound environment
2013 Québec City
Tejani, Adlparvar, Jauca
Background: Continuing education activities for clinicians are often not based on best evidence and rely heavily on pharmaceutical industry support which is problematic. The Therapeutics Initiative (TI) and the Hypertension Review Group (HRG) have developed a strategy to overcome these issues.…
Workshop Sharing participant-level clinical trial data in public repositories: what are implications for Cochrane reviews?
2013 Québec City
Krleza-Jeric, Vision, Groves
Objectives:
To discuss how the Cochrane Collaboration can best build on its call for: ‘‘All data from all randomised clinical trials, including raw anonymised individual participant data that do not allow identification of individual participants, and the corresponding trial protocols, to…
Poster Sharing tacit knowledge to build capacity for knowledge translation: lessons learned from pan-Canadian public health webinars
2013 Québec City
Sears, Chera, Dobbins, Forsyth
Background: The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) recently launched a webinar series, ‘Spotlight on KT Methods & Tools’ which features popular knowledge translation (KT) resources to support public health professionals in moving research evidence into practice.…
Oral Shortening the pipeline: the use of data mining to link new trials to Cochrane Reviews
2013 Québec City
McDonald, Thomas, Wallace, Elliott
Background: It’s estimated that at least 500 reports of trials are published every week. The pipeline by which these trials find their way into existing Cochrane Reviews (often via the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and the specialised registers of Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs)) can…
Oral Shortening the pipeline: the use of data mining to link new trials to Cochrane Reviews
2013 Québec City
McDonald, Thomas, Wallace, Elliott
Background: It’s estimated that at least 500 reports of trials are published every week. The pipeline by which these trials find their way into existing Cochrane Reviews (often via the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and the specialised registers of Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs)) can…
Poster Should the PRISMA statement be fully qualified to report an updated meta-analysis? A case report
2013 Québec City
He, Wang, Li
Background: The PRISMA statement (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses) was developed to provide the reporting guidelines for reviewers of systematic reviews (SR) or meta-analyses (MA), to improve clarity and transparency of SRs. On the other hand, Meta-analyses are…
Poster Social work and the Cochrane Collaboration: qualitative interviews with Cochrane contributors of social work background
2013 Québec City
Shepard
Background: The relationship between the Cochrane Collaboration and social work has never been formally discussed in published literature, potentially undermining the goals of both organizations.
Objectives: In commemoration of the Cochrane Collaboration’s 20th anniversary, this study explores…
Workshop Stakeholder/consumer engagement in systematic reviews
2013 Québec City
Marin, Keown
Objectives:
This workshop will present, for discussion, a stakeholder engagement model and process used in a variety of reviews. Key points for discussion include a comparison of the engagement model and Cochrane consumer involvement in reviews and how the engagement model may be adapted to the…
Workshop Start strong: choosing your review topic and writing your topic proposal
2013 Québec City
Marin, Coubin, Ueffing
Objectives:
To give prospective authors tools for registering a title for a Cochrane Review through learning activities to help participants choose a topic and write a successful title proposal.
Description:
We will spend the first 30 minutes of the workshop discussing how to choose an…
Oral Starting a new review group: tribulations without trials
2013 Québec City
Grant, Hart, Quinn, Jess
Background: Neuro-Oncology is the multi-disciplinary subspecialty dealing with the effect of cancer or cancer treatments on the nervous system. To date, these reviews have been published through the Cochrane Gynaecological Cancer Group (CGCG) under its ‘orphan’ cancer remit. With the retirement of…
Poster Statistical simulation to assess results of meta-analyses using post-intervention, change from baseline and mixed methods
2013 Québec City
Silva, Grande, Porfírio, Puga, Martimbianco, Torres, Costa, Carvalho, Fioretti, Costa, Peccin, Riera, Torloni, Atallah
Background: Meta-analyses of continuous outcomes can be performed by post-intervention, changes from baseline and also by a mixture of these methods (Fig. 1a). General recommendations are available in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions in chapters 7 (Section 7.7.3.1), 9 (…
Poster Strategies to fill knowledge gaps in health care—experiences from the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU)
2013 Québec City
Jacobson, Mowafi, Tranaeus, Heintz
Background: Eliminating knowledge gaps in health care is important to avoid spending resources on potentially ineffective or even harmful treatments. In 2010, the Swedish Government assigned the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment (SBU) to identify health technologies whose effects have…
Poster Structural recommendations assessment of eight clinical practice guidelines developed in Colombia
2013 Québec City
Flórez, Pérez, Prieto, Cañón
Background: There is not enough information to guide editorial wording of recommendations within CPG (Clinical Practice Guidelines) development. The AGREE-II instrument suggests the inclusion of population, intervention and outcome (P-I-O) components within recommendations.
Objectives: To…
Oral Sufficiently stable systematic reviews using random order cumulative meta-analysis
2013 Québec City
Ramirez
Background: Exhaustive systematic reviews require substantial time and other resources to conduct. The time-to-results often exceed the time-to-decision and thus may delay and/or impede evidence-based policy. This impediment has resulted in dialogue and exploration of rapid reviews, albeit with…
Workshop Summarising evidence for harms in systematic reviews
2013 Québec City
Herxheimer, Loke
Objectives:
Most clinical trial reports say too little about adverse events (AEs) or harms that occur during or after the trial. Few adequately describe AEs and their timing, nor how they were ascertained. Beneficial effects get much more space in reports than harms, and this seriously biases…
Poster Summarizing evidence for policy: some limitations of rapid and systematic reviews
2013 Québec City
Blanquaert, Laberge, Deck, Dufort, Rousseau
Background: The increasing demand for evidence-informed policymaking may translate into pressures on scientific advisory bodies to produce rigorous and timely assessments. Several constraints may force health agencies to opt for rapid reviews, the quality of which depends on previous evaluations…
Oral Superfilters website: a searching tool for review authors
2013 Québec City
Wilczynski, Cotoi, Haynes
Background: Reviewers could benefit from more efficient study retrieval tools than currently exist. Having an online, ‘1-stop’ federated search facility providing empirically derived and validated search filters and filtering aids to retrieve and collate all pertinent studies would help.…
Oral Superfilters website: a searching tool for review authors
2013 Québec City
Wilczynski, Cotoi, Haynes
Background: Reviewers could benefit from more efficient study retrieval tools than currently exist. Having an online, ‘1-stop’ federated search facility providing empirically derived and validated search filters and filtering aids to retrieve and collate all pertinent studies would help.…