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Poster @EvidenceAid: exploring the social network of a humanitarian knowledge translation programme

2014 Hyderabad
Mellon, Clarke, Allen
Background: Evidence Aid can be characterised as a knowledge translation project that uses a range of technologies, including social media, to improve the use of systematic reviews evidence before, during and after humanitarian emergencies. Evidence Aid has been using the Twitter platform to…

Oral A new approach to update Cochrane Reviews focusing on the 'Summary of findings' (SoFs)

2014 Hyderabad
Soares-Weiser, Bergman, Maayan, Marshall
Background: The Enhance Reviews (ER) team has been involved in updating reviews for Cochrane Groups over the past 5 years. Some of the challenges are: (a) changes in methods; (b) the need to cross-check data extraction and risk of bias for studies previously included in a review; (c) the lengthy…

Poster A new candidate TB vaccine: systematic review of animal studies

2014 Hyderabad
Kashangura, Sena, Young, Garner
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.4 million people every year, so an effective vaccine could have a major impact on global health. A new vaccine is currently being tested in South Africa. Objectives: As part of an evaluation of what evidence of benefit we currently have in published…

Oral A new tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies

2014 Hyderabad
Savović, Higgins, Reeves, Turner, Sterne, Development group for the Cochrane risk of bias tool for non-randomized studies
Background: Cochrane intervention reviews rely primarily on evidence from randomized trials (RCTs), but this is not always available. Some clinical questions, such as those about rare, long term or unexpected harms, are often addressed incompletely by RCTs. There is currently no widely accepted…

Poster A survey of use of Cochrane author resources by Malaysian authors

2014 Hyderabad
Sasongko, Ho
Background: Malaysia has been carrying out author training for the past 10 years using materials initially from the Australasian Cochrane Centre and more recently the Standard training materials which include information on resources available to authors. Objective: To assess the awareness…

Oral A systematic review on the impact of studies that are not fully published on results of meta-analyses

2014 Hyderabad
Schmucker, Schell, Blümle, Briel, Schwarzer, Basler, Von Elm, Meerpohl
Introduction: As part of a systematic review a meta-analysis aims to provide an unbiased summary of data from the literature. However, potentially important studies could be missing because of selective publication and inadequate dissemination of results. If results of missing studies differ…

Poster A tool to measure complexity in public health interventions

2014 Hyderabad
Shankar, Mujja, Lewis, Nair
Background: Public health interventions target a diverse population, composed of multiple components, mostly context-dependent and, therefore, they are often regarded as complex. The complex nature of public health interventions discourages the use of conventional meta-analytic techniques and…

Poster A typology of questions for systematic reviews on complex interventions

2014 Hyderabad
Hannes
Background: Several authors have pleaded for the careful planning of mixed method reviews. However, the focus on the procedural or design related aspects of conducting a mixed method review leaves potential review authors with the impression that differences between quantitative and qualitative…

Workshop Accounting for missing outcome data in meta-analysis

2014 Hyderabad
Mavridis, Chaimani, Efthimiou, White, Higgins, Salanti
Objectives: To understand the theory and application of methods used to account for missing outcome data in a meta-analysis. Description: Missing outcome data in the included trials reduce the precision in the meta-analysis summary effect. If outcomes are not missing at random, the synthesis…

Workshop Adding evidence to Wikipedia: edit-a-thon

2014 Hyderabad
Easow Mathew, Heilman, Bhaumik, Poore, Belavate
Objectives: Wikipedia has been accepted worldwide as a source of health information by both lay people, medical students and healthcare professionals. With about 155,000 medical articles getting about 400 million page-views each month, there is an urgent need for ensuring that information…

Workshop Addressing missing participant data in systematic reviews. Part 1: dichotomous outcomes

2014 Hyderabad
Akl, Ebrahim, Kahale, Alonso, Guyatt, Johnston, Briel
Objectives: To describe how to use an innovative approach to addressing missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes in systematic reviews of randomized trials. Description: The workshop will consist of the following: 1. A didactic presentation of methods being used by Cochrane and non…

Workshop Addressing missing participant data in systematic reviews. Part 2: continuous outcomes

2014 Hyderabad
Ebrahim, Akl, Guyatt, Mustafa, Alonso, Johnston, Sun, Walter, Heels-Ansdell
Objectives: To describe how to use an innovative approach to addressing missing participant data for continuous outcomes in systematic reviews. Description: The workshop will consist of the following: 1. An interactive presentation of the proposed approach: a complete case analysis and four…

Poster Adherence to IMMPACT outcome reporting recommendations among trials assessing the effect of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain

2014 Hyderabad
Busse, Maqbool, Sivananthan, Lopes, Schandelmaier, Kamaleldin, Hsu, Riva, Vandvik, Tsoi, Lam, Ebrahim, Johnston, Oliveri, Montoya, Kunz, Mulla, Scheidecker, Buckley, Sessler, Guyatt
Background: Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is common, but clinical trials exploring treatment options do not always report all outcomes of importance to patients. To address this issue, the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) consensus has…

Poster Adherence to reporting guidelines in biomedical journals of Latin America

2014 Hyderabad
Glujovsky, Villanueva, Reveiz, Toshiyuki Murasaki
Background: Several studies have shown important deficiencies in reporting research studies. EQUATOR (Enhancing QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) is a network that promotes the use of free reporting guidelines. Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge of the editors of journals…

Workshop Advanced searching masterclass: The Cochrane Library

2014 Hyderabad
Finley
Objectives: To provide regular users with a general overview of the interface, features and functionality of The Cochrane Library and a review of recent enhancements. Description: This workshop is designed for regular searchers of The Cochrane Library. It will provide a general overview of the…

Workshop Advancing methods for overviews of reviews: a discussion of challenges and potential solutions

2014 Hyderabad
Foisy, Dryden, Fernandes, Hartling, Thomson
Objectives: 1) Provide information about the methodological research we are currently conducting to advance overview methods. 2) Group discussions about the challenges involved when conducting overviews, and potential solutions to these challenges. Challenges we have encountered include:…

Poster An approach to disinvestment: an Italian experience

2014 Hyderabad
D'Amico, Balduzzi, Clivio, Grilli
Background: Disinvestment is the partial/complete withdrawal of resources from existing health care interventions that have questionable benefit. Different processes have been developed to identify these interventions, however there is not consensus on which one to use. In 2013, the Italian…

Oral An approach to evaluate the quality of evidence from a network meta-analysis

2014 Hyderabad
Salanti, Del Giovane, Chaimani, Caldwell, Higgins
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) that collate data about the relative effects of multiple interventions via network meta-analysis (NMA) are highly informative for decision-making purposes. A NMA provides two types of findings for a specific outcome: the relative treatment effect for all…

Poster An empirical investigation of clinical trialists' views regarding methods to conceal allocation

2014 Hyderabad
Mulla, Zhou, Hussain, You, Thabane, Guyatt
Background: Despite evidence that study personnel can and sometimes do tamper with envelopes, thus jeopardizing randomization, some clinical trials authorities, including the Cochrane Collaboration, maintain that envelopes adequately conceal allocation. Given the apparently conflicting evidence…

Oral An empirical investigation of the potential impact of selective inclusion of results in systematic reviews of interventions

2014 Hyderabad
Page, McKenzie, Chau, Green, Forbes
Background: For a particular meta-analysis, there may be multiple effect estimates available to select from a trial report, resulting, for example, from multiple scales, time points, or analyses. Multiplicity can potentially lead to data driven decisions regarding which data to include in a meta-…