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Oral Quality of reporting of clinical prediction model studies: adherence to TRIPOD
2015 Vienna
Heus, Damen, Scholten, Reitsma, Collins, Altman, Moons, Hooft
Background: There is a growing number of prediction models, both diagnostic and prognostic, that are published in the medical literature. Systematic reviews are required to deal with this information overload. However, systematic review authors are highly dependent on the quality of the reporting…
Oral Quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies in medical laboratory journals
2015 Vienna
Pecoraro, Banzi, Trenti
Background: The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) checklist aims to improve the reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies. So far, only a few journals have adopted the STARD checklist.
Objective: We investigated the current quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies…
Oral Quasi-randomisation in emergency setting trials: a recipe for selection bias, or an efficient approach?
2015 Vienna
Corbett, Moe-Byrne, Oddie, McGuire
Background: Recruitment into randomised trials in emergency settings may be difficult because of the inherent time restrictions encountered when enrolling, randomising and treating participants. Although quasi-randomisation might mitigate some of these problems, systematic reviewers are likely to…
Poster RICE or ice: what does the evidence say? The evidence base for first aid treatment of sprains and strains
2015 Vienna
Borra, De Buck, Vandekerckhove
Background: Belgian Red Cross-Flanders develops evidence-based first aid guidelines for laypeople, as a part of its strategy to give evidence-based support for all its activities. In the revision of the Flemish first aid manual, the effectiveness of RICE, an acronym for Rest, Ice, Compression and…
Oral RITES: a new systematic review tool to assess the characteristics of included trials along the efficacy/effectiveness continuum
2015 Vienna
Wieland, Berman, Altman, Barth, Bouter, D'Adamo, Grimshaw, Linde, Moher, Mullins, Treweek, van der Windt, Merrick, Witt
Background: Trials may address efficacy, i.e. intervention effects under ideal conditions, or effectiveness, i.e. intervention effects in real world circumstances. When systematic reviews are used to inform clinical or policy decisions, it is important to understand how applicable the evidence from…
Oral Randomized clinical trials of the impact of alternative diagnostic strategies on patient-important outcomes: a systematic survey
2015 Vienna
El Dib, Tikinnen, Akl, Mustafa, Agarwal, Gomaa, Carpenter, Zhang, Nascimento Jr, Jorge, Almeida, Doles, Mustafa, Sadeghirad, Lopes, Bergamaschi, Suzumura, Cardoso, Stone, Schünemann, Guyatt
Background: Diagnostic tests represent a pivotal part of patient management. Often clinicians adopt tests for clinical use on the basis of findings of diagnostic accuracy. Although in some instances simply knowing accuracy can allow inferences of patient benefit, in many others the use even of…
Workshop Rapid Review workshop: timely evidence synthesis for decision makers
2015 Vienna
King, Polisena, Garritty, Stevens, Heise, Griebler, Mütsch, Lhachimi, Gartlehner , Flatz, von Elm, Puhan, Busert
Objectives: Rapid reviews (RRs) are increasingly employed as a research synthesis tool to support timely evidence-informed decision-making. Some of the facilitators hope to register a Cochrane RR Methods Group to help define their conduct and use. This workshop aims: 1) to introduce the concept of…
Oral Rapid review on the effectiveness of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers caring for patients with filovirus disease
2015 Vienna
Hersi, Stevens, Quach, Hamel, Thavorn, Garritty, Skidmore, Vallenas, Norris, Egger, Eremin, Ferri, Shindo, Moher
Background: The West African outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in 2014 evolved rapidly, yielding the highest number of cases and deaths of outbreaks to date. We performed a rapid review of the evidence to inform recommendations issued by the World Health Organization on the use of personal…
Oral Rapid review programs to support healthcare and policy decision making: a descriptive analysis of processes and methods
2015 Vienna
Polisena, Garritty, King, Stevens
Background: Healthcare decision makers often make decisions under limited timeframes that preclude the completion of more comprehensive evidence synthesis. Rapid reviews (RRs), using streamlined systematic review methods, are used frequently for evidence synthesis to support such decisions.…
Poster Rapid reviews can increase use of evidence by health system decision-makers’ with fast-paced needs: the VA ESP experience
2015 Vienna
Peterson, Floyd, McCleery, Christensen, Helfand
Background: In response to continued growth in use of rapid reviews, various evidence synthesis organizations have undertaken efforts to better understand the range of products offered and approaches used to abbreviate the review process, evaluate how usability may differ from standard systematic…
Oral Rapid reviews to inform Ebola preparedness efforts at hospitals
2015 Vienna
Mitchell, Price, Umscheid, Mull
Background: US hospitals are preparing to evaluate and treat returning travelers at risk for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Our hospital is one of 35 designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an Ebola treatment center.
Objectives: Acquire, appraise, and apply best…
Oral Rapid reviews to inform state health policy decisions
2015 Vienna
King, Gerrity
Background: Medicaid, a US federal-state partnership, provides care to poor and disabled children and adults. Seventeen state Medicaid programs collaborate, as the Medicaid Evidence-based Decisions (MED) project, with the Center for Evidence-based Policy (CEBP) to produce rapid reviews (RR) to…
Poster Rapid reviews: appropriateness and applicability
2015 Vienna
King, Garritty, Polisena, Stevens
Background: Time and resources constrain both clinicians and policymakers in guideline and policy development to support health systems. Systematic review (SR) production timelines are often too long and resource-intensive. Accordingly, rapid reviews (RR) attempt to meet decision-maker needs within…
Oral Refinement of search filters to reduce information overload when retrieving evidence on variations in practice for NICE Quality Standards
2015 Vienna
Craven, Ayiku, Barrett, Walton
Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards are concise sets of prioritised statements designed to drive measurable quality improvements within a particular area of health or care in the United Kingdom (UK). A central aim of Quality Standards is to…
Oral Reliability of data extraction using manual measurements of published graphs or figures
2015 Vienna
Pérez-Gaxiola, Cuello-Garcia
Background: Meta-analyses combine results of specific outcomes from individual primary studies, in which trial authors occasionally publish results with figures or graphs without the exact numerical data needed for further analysis. Although the most appropriate way to deal with missing numbers is…
Oral Reported use and perceptions of value of Cochrane evidence by South African guideline developers
2015 Vienna
Abrams, Kredo, Young, Louw, Grimmer, Daniels
Background: Systematic reviews are a key source of transparent evidence assessments for guideline development. This research, as part of the South African Guidelines Excellence (SAGE) project, maps the use and perceived benefits of Cochrane Systematic Reviews amongst primary care guideline…
Oral Reported versus actual analytical methods to handle missing participant data in meta-analysis: a survey of 100 systematic reviews
2015 Vienna
Kahale, Diab, Mustafa, Busse, Agarwal, Waziry, Li, Lopes, Koujanian, Dakik, Chang, Guyatt, Akl
Background: Systematic review authors do not typically report the analytical methods they used to handle missing participant data (MPD) in meta-analyses. Moreover, when methods are reported, the concordance with reviewers’ actual analyses is uncertain.
Objectives: To determine which analytical…
Workshop Reporting adverse events in reviews and the PRISMA Harms
2015 Vienna
Zorzela, Golder, Junqueira, Vohra
Objectives:
1. Understand the particularities of reporting adverse events in reviews.
2. Use the PRISMA Harms as a reporting tool for adverse events in reviews.
Description: As adverse events are often rare, systematic reviews can provide valuable information to describe them, but the lack of…
Oral Reporting and analysis of missing participant continuous data in randomized controlled trials (LOST-IT-II): a systematic survey
2015 Vienna
Zhang, Flórez, Colunga, Abu Bakar Aloweni, Alexander Kennedy, Li, Craigie, Zhang, Agarwal, Cruz Lopes, Devji, Wiercioch, J. Riva, Wang, Jin, Fei, Alexander, Morgano, Zhang, Carrasco-Labra, Kahale, Meyre, Akl, Schünemann, Thabane, Guyatt
Background: Missing participant data (MPD) can bias trial results and conclusions if the missingness is associated with the occurrence of the outcome of interest. No study has summarized the reporting and analytic approaches of MPD that authors have used for continuous outcomes in randomized…
Poster Reporting health related quality of life in critical care RCTs
2015 Vienna
Roth, Tscherny, Heidinger, Havel, Arrich, Gamper, Herkner
Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL), defined as “the functional effect of an illness and its treatment upon a patient as perceived by the patient”, might provide better information about the actual impact of a therapy; detect less obvious or unexpected effects; and is among the most…