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Poster Appropriate use of prescription opioids: how to do a systematic review of strategies

2015 Vienna
Irvin, Furlan, Van Eerd, Munhall, Kim, Danak
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that worldwide 69 000 people die from opioid overdose each year; an estimated 15 million people suffer from opioid dependence (i.e. an addiction to opioids). Objectives: To determine existing strategies, frameworks, collaborative networks…

Poster Effect of evidence-based medicine courses on informatics competencies of medical college students

2015 Vienna
Qin, Chen, Zhou, Wang, Chen
Background: Effective and appropriate use of information and communication technologies is an essential competency for all healthcare professionals. With the development of information globalization, the ability to acquire, process and use information is particularly important. Objectives:To…

Oral Scoping reviews versus systematic reviews: results from a scoping review of scoping reviews

2015 Vienna
Tricco, Lillie, Zarin, O'Brien, Colquhoun, Kastner, Levac, Ng, Pearson Sharpe, Wilson, Kenny, Warren, Wilson, Stelfox, Moher, McGowan
Background: Scoping reviews are used to map concepts underpinning a research area and the main sources and types of evidence available. Currently, a lack of consistency exists in the terminology, definition, methods, and reporting of scoping reviews appearing in the literature. Objectives: We…

Oral 'Cochrane Lehrmodule': development and implementation of teaching modules in university-affiliated courses

2015 Vienna
Mahlknecht
Background: The Danube University Krems, where Cochrane Austria is hosted, is offering a variety of courses in the field of medicine and health sciences. Within these courses, modules on evidence-based research skills and methods have gained popularity. Cochrane Austria was requested to develop…

Workshop 'Consumers for the terrified' or identifying good practice in involving consumers in the work of Cochrane Review Groups

2015 Vienna
Morley
Objectives: This interactive and participative workshop is designed and led by people who work in Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs), and by consumers. It is open to all those who presently work with consumers in Review Groups, and who would like to involve consumers more, and to consumers themselves.…

Poster 'Health in your language' by the Evidence-Based Medicine Unit to provide the best healthcare evidence for the community of Portuguese-speaking countries

2015 Vienna
El Dib, Betini, Cardoso, Modolo, Nascimento Jr
Background: Cochrane activities in non-English speaking countries is limited by the language barrier and usually low in comparison to English-speaking countries. Making Cochrane summaries more accessible by translating them into other languages, is likely to enable wider dissemination of these…

Oral 'Rapid review' methodology to inform a policy decision: when is it fit for purpose? A case study

2015 Vienna
Llewellyn, Simmonds, Brunton, Thomas, Sowden
Background: There appears to be an increasing use of 'rapid reviews' to inform policy decisions in a timely manner. However, there is relatively little consensus on rapid review methodology. Objectives: To present as a case study our experience of conducting a 'rapid review' to…

Poster A checklist approach to evaluation of scientific study protocols approval removes bottleneck and improves methodological quality: a randomized controlled trial

2015 Vienna
Kumar, Kosambiya, Reljic, Chenneville, Menezes, Mhaskar, Miladinovic, Djulbegovic
Background: Scientific Review Committee (SRC) members mostly use qualitative methods for reaching decisions (approval or disapproval) on study protocols. Checklists for reporting scientific studies have helped improve transparency and presentation of studies in the public reporting of research…

Oral A framework for deciding if individual participant data are likely to be worthwhile

2015 Vienna
Tudur Smith, Clarke, Marson, Riley, Stewart, Tierney, Vail, Williamson
Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis that are based on Individual Participant Data (IPD) are often referred to as a 'gold standard'. However, they are usually more resource-intensive than a traditional approach based on aggregate data (AD) extracted from publications or made…

Oral A generalized latent variable modelling framework for the bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity in diagnostic reviews

2015 Vienna
Eusebi, Orso, Reitsma, Vermunt
Background: The current methodology for diagnostic reviews relies on hierarchical models with normal random effects for the true logit sensitivity and specificity. The assumption of normally distributed random effects can lead to overestimation of between-study variances in the case of outliers,…

Oral A graphical display of reporting factors associated with systematic reviews: an example from diabetic retinopathy

2015 Vienna
Hui, Clearfield, Lindsley, Virgili, Scherer
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) are considered to be the highest level of evidence, but may lead to biased conclusions if not properly conducted. We aim to evaluate SRs of interventions for diabetic retinopathy (DR), the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population in developed…

Oral A machine learning approach to classifying articles for literature reviews based on titles and abstracts

2015 Vienna
Steeves, Buchanan-Hughes, Leonard
Background: Machine learning could improve the efficiency of conducting literature reviews by automating review of titles and abstracts for relevant articles. Objectives: This study investigated if it is feasible to use the Fisher classification method to distinguish between relevant and…

Oral A map of outcomes in trials of communication interventions for childhood vaccination: measuring too few concepts in too many ways

2015 Vienna
Kaufman, Ryan, Bosch-Capblanch, Cartier, Cliff, Glenton, Lewin, Rada, Ames, Muloliwa, Oku, Oyo-Ita, Hill
Background: Core outcome sets (COSs) bring consistency to outcome measurement and strengthen systematic reviews. Most COSs focus on clinical interventions for health conditions; few address preventive health interventions.Communication for childhood vaccination is key to improving uptake and can…

Poster A meta-study on teacher professional development activities

2015 Vienna
Thurlings, den Brok
Background: Teacher professional development (TPD) is considered essential for the quality of education. Several literature reviews have explored under which circumstances TPD is effective, yet they did not explicitly explore the methods and theories included studies used. Objectives: We explore…

Oral A methodological approach for binary data to determine the extent of treatment effect in the early benefit assessment of drugs

2015 Vienna
Bender, Skipka, Wieseler, Kaiser, Thomas, Windeler, Lange
Background: At the beginning of 2011 the early benefit assessment of new drugs was introduced in Germany with the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG). The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) generally commissions the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)…

Poster A model for streamlining Cochrane Review production: year one of an NIHR programme grant

2015 Vienna
Kew, Welsh
Background: To meet Goal 1 of Cochrane’s Strategy to 2020, review groups face the challenges of identifying the most relevant reviews for production, and finding and supporting dedicated and skilled authors to complete them to a high standard and in a timely manner. External review teams often…

Poster A network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of interventions for the treatment of rotator cuff tears

2015 Vienna
Gagnier, Beyene
Background: Rotator cuff tears are common and increasing in prevalence in our aging population. Rotator cuff tears can be treated through various surgical procedures and rehabilitative programs, many of which have not been compared directly to each other. Using a network meta-analysis allows…

Oral A new approach to ‘empty’ reviews

2015 Vienna
Kew, Welsh
Background: Cochrane review groups are encouraged to prioritise reviews that are likely to include studies over those that might not, but questions that identify no trials can be important to people making healthcare decisions. ‘Empty’ reviews based on comprehensive literature searching, especially…

Poster A new taxonomy of stroke physical rehabilitation to enable clinically relevant evidence synthesis within a Cochrane Systematic Review

2015 Vienna
Pollock, Campbell, Choo, Morris, Forster, Baer
Background: Clear, clinically relevant taxonomies of complex rehabilitation interventions are essential to enable objective evidence synthesis within systematic reviews. Definitions of current physical rehabilitation approaches are generally inadequate, lack universal international acceptance or…

Oral A new tool to measure credibility of studies determining minimally important difference estimates for patient reported outcomes

2015 Vienna
Carrasco- Labra, Johnston, Ebrahim, Furukawa, Patrick, Hemmelgarn, Motaghi Pisheh, Dennis, Jacobs, Vernooij, Fei, Younho Hong, Tajika, Takeshima, Iwakami, Hayasaka, Kaminski-Hartenthaler, Nussbaumer, Colunga, Devji, Gartlehner, Schunemann, Nesrallah, Guyatt
Background: The ability to interpret and, consequently, include patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in the decision-making process along with other patient-important outcomes relies on the understanding of what improvement or reduction in the PRO represents a change that is important to patients. With…