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Poster Link checking and cleaning: preparing records for Linked Data
2014 Hyderabad
Dooley, Anstee, Foxlee
Background:
Cochrane authors have been linking references and studies together in reviews for 20 years. The Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS) takes advantage of this to give every Cochrane Review Group a set of records linked together as part of their specialised register. With the growing…
Oral Linking diagnostic test accuracy reviews to global priorities: case study of TB
2014 Hyderabad
Steingart, Richardson, Stephani, Garner
Background:
The Cochrane Collaboration is finding effective mechanisms for aligning intervention reviews and global guidelines processes, but experience with diagnostic test accuracies (DTA) reviews appears limited. Here we report on how an effective linkage between a Cochrane Review Group and the…
Workshop Linking risk of bias, GRADE tools and 'Summary of findings' tables: moving from single trees to the forest
2014 Hyderabad
Boutron, Santesso
Objectives:
1. To review and understand how the risk of bias (RoB) tools, GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation), and 'Summary of findings' (SoF) tables link when conducting systematic reviews and developing guidelines.
2. To practice using the…
Poster Magnitude of childhood obesity in India: a systematic review of available evidence
2014 Hyderabad
Nayak, Nair, mujja, D'Souza, noronha, Mitra, Unnikrishnan
Background:
Worldwide, non-communicable diseases (NCD) represent 43% of the burden of disease and are expected to be responsible for 60% of the disease burden and 73% of all deaths by 2020. Childhood obesity is already an epidemic in some regions and is on the rise in others. Although many…
Workshop Making a podcast for a Cochrane Review
2014 Hyderabad
Stewart, Rosati, Clarke
Objectives:
This workshop is aimed at authors wishing to make a podcast to accompany their Cochrane Review, for inclusion in The Cochrane Library. It would also be of benefit to those supporting authors, such as Managing Editors.
Description:
The workshop will take participants step-by-step…
Workshop Making results of patient-reported outcomes interpretable
2014 Hyderabad
Guyatt, Patrick
Objectives:
To address the methods available for making patient-reported outcomes readily understandable to the audience of Cochrane Reviews.
Description:
Patient-reported outcomes include reports of symptoms, health-related quality of life and patient satisfaction, and often present unique…
Poster Malaysian authors’ perception on the degree of consensus in Cochrane Review development: a preliminary survey
2014 Hyderabad
Muhamad, Lai, Mustapha, Ho, Murad
Background:
The development of Cochrane Reviews follows a clearly-defined process. In certain steps, such as study selection and risk-of-bias assessment, independent evaluation from multiple authors is required to minimise biases arising from individual judgments and errors in information coding…
Workshop Managing updates: editorial processes
2014 Hyderabad
Tovey, MacLehose, Chandler, Ni Ogain, Foxlee, Garner, Stephani, Welsh, Marshall
Objectives:
To contribute to the development of editorial guidance and policies associated with updating Cochrane Reviews around authorship, peer review, and the updating classification system for Cochrane Reviews of interventions.
Description:
This workshop will focus on editorial processes…
Poster Mapping the growth of The Cochrane Collaboration in India
2014 Hyderabad
Bhaumik, Mathew, Parthasarthy
Background:
It is imperative to analyse the growth of The Cochrane Collaboration in India in order to plan further capacity building.
Objectives:
To map and analyse the growth of The Cochrane Collaboration in India.
Methods:
Data were retrieved in February 2014 using the advanced…
Oral Massive production of meta-analyses of antidepressants with industry authorship or industry-related conflicts
2014 Hyderabad
Ebrahim, Bance, Athale, Malachowski, Ioannidis
Background:
As meta-analyses have become highly influential for guiding clinical practice, they may be used as marketing tools by the industry.
Objectives:
To identify how many recent meta-analyses of antidepressant trials in depression are authored or sponsored by the industry or have…
Poster Maternal anaemia and risk of adverse birth and health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
2014 Hyderabad
Rahman, Abe, Rahman, Kanda, Narita, Ota, Gilmour, Shibuya
Background:
Despite the high priority of maternal and child health programs in national health agendas, progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 has been slow. One major obstacle to achieving these goals is anaemia.
Objectives:
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis…
Poster Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: systematic review of methods available for dealing with missing mean and standard deviation values
2014 Hyderabad
Butcher, Brady, Lewis, Murray, Langhorne, Weir
Background:
Over a third of stroke reviews in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews include a continuous primary outcome; three-quarters contain a continuous secondary outcome. These continuous outcome measures are often of crucial relevance to patients, carers and healthcare professionals…
Poster Meta-analysis of non-randomized Indian trials confirming results of a Cochrane systematic review based on randomized trials
2014 Hyderabad
Van Remoortel, De Buck, Vandekerckhove, Agarwal
Background:
New malaria cases in India are estimated at 24 million/year by the World Health Organization, resulting in a high socio-economic burden. A Cochrane systematic review, published in 2004, based on randomized controlled trials in non-Indian countries, showed that insecticide-treated bed…
Poster Meta-analyzing surveillance studies to estimate the burden of vaccine-preventable infectious disease
2014 Hyderabad
Thumburu, Jaiswal, Agarwal, Jindal, Singh, Bharti, Mathew
Background:
The policy-makers and epidemiologists usually estimate the infectious disease burdens due to a specific organism by using statistical remodelling or extrapolation of the data from different settings. Though proven for usefulness, these are complex and difficult to replicate. For this…
Oral Methodological considerations for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies
2014 Hyderabad
Sterne, Reeves, Hernán, Savović, Turner, Higgins, 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 no widely accepted tool for…
Poster Methodological quality of negative versus positive studies
2014 Hyderabad
Charan, Choudhari, Jackson, Mhaskar, Reljic, Kumar
Background:
Studies with statistically non-significant results are known as negative studies. Published negative studies should ideally have the same rigor of reported methodological quality as studies with positive findings. However, methodological quality of negative versus positive studies is…
Poster Methodological quality of systematic reviews in public health policy: one case of human resources
2014 Hyderabad
Jia
Background:
Different strategies on health human resources problems are implemented in both developed and developing countries. High quality evidence is needed to share between countries.
Objectives:
To assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews in public health policy.…
Workshop Methodological requirements for searching for studies for Cochrane Reviews: ensuring that new Cochrane Reviews meet the MECIR standards
2014 Hyderabad
Lefebvre, Foxlee, Noel-Storr, Clarke, Glanville
Objectives:
As part of a programme of work to improve the quality of Cochrane Reviews, the Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) project was established to specify methodological expectations, or standards, for Cochrane Protocols, Reviews and updates of reviews of…
Poster Methods of evidence mapping: a systematic review
2014 Hyderabad
Schmucker, Motschall, Antes, Meerpohl
Background:
Evidence mapping is an increasingly popular approach for the systematic evaluation of published research. While there are clear methodological standards for systematic reviews, variability exist between the terminology and methods used within evidence mapping.
Objectives:
The aim…
Poster Model construction of Health Technology Reassessment (HTR) in Korea using systematic review of HTR systems in four countries
2014 Hyderabad
Lee, Seo, Ji, Lee, Park, Son
Background:
Health technology reassessment (HTR) is the process of withdrawing medical care resources partially, or completely, when existing health technology is regarded as being an inefficient use of healthcare resources that provides less health benefit for its cost. Obsolescence is a natural…