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Poster Bunches of evidence: displaying 'Summary of findings' tables visually as ‘evidence flowers’

2015 Vienna
Jordan, Babatunde, van der Windt
Background: 'Summary of findings' tables in Cochrane Reviews can be difficult to interpret, particularly by patients and clinicians, and this may limit their use in clinical practice. Evidence flowers were originally developed as a means of expressing the results of large evidence…

Oral CBRG QuickDecks: a new tool for sharing the best evidence in back and neck pain care

2015 Vienna
Irvin, Furlan, Munhall, Danak, Kim, Marin
Background: It is important to create different summary products in addition to scientific publications to support claims about interventions based on evidence from Cochrane Reviews. The Cochrane Back Review Group (CBRG) wanted to create a product that would decrease the burden and yet encourage…

Oral CHecklist for critical Appraisal and data extraction in systematic Reviews of clinical prediction Modelling Studies (CHARMS)

2015 Vienna
Moons, de Groot, Bouwmeester, Vergouwe, Mallett, Altman, Reitsma, Collins
Background: Publications on multivariable clinical prediction models have become abundant for both prognostic and diagnostic purposes. Systematic reviews of these studies are increasingly required to identify and critically appraise the existing evidence. There is currently no checklist or tool…

Oral Calculating costs: facing challenges for a cost comparison of day surgical and inpatient varicose vein surgery as an example

2015 Vienna
Fischer
Background: Evidence-based medicine (EbM) and Health Technology Assessments (HTA) aim to improve health care and allocation of resources, so besides clinical aspects, cost calculations are becoming more important, with selection of data being crucial for an appropriate calculation. Objectives:…

Oral Can an evidence-informed taxonomy be used to map vaccination communication interventions in ‘real world’ settings? Findings from Nigeria

2015 Vienna
Oku, Oyo-ita, Lewin, Glenton, Fretheim, Ames, Kaufmann, Hill, Cartier, Cliff, Muloliwa, Rada, Bosch-Capblanch
Background: Effective communication is key to improving childhood vaccination coverage and is the focus of the Communicate to Vaccinate (COMMVAC) project. In earlier work, we developed a taxonomy of communication interventions to help decision makers understand and consider options for…

Poster Can assessors in a trial of psychotherapy be successfully blinded?

2015 Vienna
Watanabe
Background: Blinding is a key element of treatment evaluation in systematic reviews, and is considered more difficult to obtain in trials assessing psychosocial treatment than in those on pharmacotherapy. Objectives: To evaluate the concordance rate and kappa values for agreement between the right…

Oral Capacity-sharing for improved filtering of information for decision-making in the African context

2015 Vienna
Stewart, Langer, Zaranyika, Choge, Erasmus, Jordaan, Mitchell, Gerald
Introduction: There is limited capacity in systematic reviewing and evidence-use in low- and middle-income countries, particularly across Africa. This is reflected in the Global Evidence Synthesis Initiative (GESI) in which Cochrane plays a leading role. There are however significant pockets of…

Oral Challenges and considerations in assessing the reporting quality of systematic reviews in overviews using PRISMA

2015 Vienna
Jia, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Zhang
Background: Overviews bring systematic reviews (SRs) together and serve as a user-friendly 'digest' that can be used by clinicians and policy makers in making decisions. Poor reporting of SRs diminishes value of the overview to clinicians and policy makers. The reporting quality of SRs…

Workshop Challenges and solutions when carrying out mixed methods literature reviews in resource constrained settings

2015 Vienna
Bosch-Capblanch, Oliver, Hill, Lewing
Objectives: To share ad hoc solutions to challenges in producing non-effectiveness systematic reviews. Description: Increasingly, stakeholders commission research synthesis that relates to a greater variety of types of questions, which requires managing evidence from a mix of study designs and…

Oral Challenges conducting a Cochrane Review of public health ‘implementation strategies’

2015 Vienna
Williams, Wolfenden
Background: Targeting health risk behaviours in children is an important aspect of chronic disease prevention, as heath behaviours established in childhood are likely to track into adulthood. Schools are an attractive setting for the implementation of child-focused chronic disease prevention…

Oral Change score or follow-up score? An empirical evaluation of the impact of choice of mean difference estimates

2015 Vienna
Fu, Holmer
Background: In randomized controlled clinical trials, continuous outcomes are typically measured at both baseline and follow-up, and mean difference could be estimated by using the change score from baseline, using the follow-up scores, or using the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model. When there…

Oral Characteristics of network meta-analysis reviews from Cochrane

2015 Vienna
Porfirio, Nogueira, Cabrera, Parra, Freitas, Torloni, Riera, Atallah
Background: Network meta-analysis is a study design that allows indirect comparisons between interventions when there are no studies with direct comparisons. Although there is no standard method, crucial points, as the level of similarity within studies (called transitivity or similarity) and, the…

Poster Clinical Practice Guidelines for traditional Korean medicine (TKM) for facial palsy: an evidence-based approach

2015 Vienna
Lee, Choi, Lee, Jun
Background: Facial palsy is very common disease, and traditional Korean medicine (TKM) is very widely used for facial palsy in Korea. However there is no Korean multidisciplinary guideline for facial palsy and thus, an adequate guideline for domestic circumstances is required. Objectives: A…

Poster Clinical decision support system: an effective pathway to promote shared decision making between clinician and patient.

2015 Vienna
Jia, Zhang, Zhao, Zhang
Background: A clinical decision support system (CDSS) has been defined as a computerized system that uses case-based reasoning to assist clinicians in assessing disease status, in making a diagnosis, in selecting appropriate therapy or in making other clinical decisions. Related studies showed that…

Oral Cochrane 2.0: Tweeting and blogging to disseminate child health evidence

2015 Vienna
Hartling, Hamm, Newton, Fernandes, Featherstone, Thomson
Background: Healthcare providers desire ready access to reliable synthesized information to support point-of-care decision-making. Virtual communities, facilitated by the adoption of social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, are increasingly used for knowledge mobilization,…

Workshop Cochrane Clinical Answers: facilitating the use of Cochrane Reviews within the clinical decision-making pathway

2015 Vienna
Pettersen, Tort, Burch
Objectives: To discuss and demonstrate the role Cochrane Clinical Answers have in facilitating the use of Cochrane Reviews in healthcare decision-making. Description: Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs; http://cochraneclinicalanswers.com/) aim to place the results of Cochrane Reviews within the…

Oral Cochrane Clinical Answers: filtering the information overload for better clinical decisions

2015 Vienna
Tort, Pettersen, Burch
Background: Healthcare professionals need point-of-care access to reliable and high-quality synthetized information from up-to-date research. Cochrane Reviews provide a valuable source of information, but can take a long time to read and have a large volume of data, much of which may not be…

Workshop Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy: an implementation workshop

2015 Vienna
Foxlee, Tovey, Farquhar, Bero
Objectives: In April 2014 the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group approved a revision of the Cochrane Commercial Sponsorship Policy in keeping with our longstanding aim of providing independent healthcare information. In the same year an audit of compliance with the policy was undertaken. In the…

Oral Cochrane Reviews in dentistry: making sense of evidence at its highest level – an analysis

2015 Vienna
Mulimani
Cochrane reviews are considered to provide scientific evidence at its highest level by processing all available data regarding a research question through rigorous tests and standardized exacting specifications. Often the methodology, to those not involved or to those viewing the information from…

Workshop Cochrane Training - facilitation skills: Creating a positive learning climate for effective learning

2015 Vienna
Kredo, Durao, Young
Objectives: 1. Describe characteristics of adult learners of Cochrane workshops. 2. Describe the features of a positive learning climate. 3. Plan for, establish and maintain a positive learning climate before, during and after Cochrane training. Description: Effective learning for adults…