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Workshop Systematic reviews of prognostic studies IV: Meta-analytical approaches in systematic reviews of prognostic studies
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Moons, Hooft, Debray
Objectives: This workshop introduces participants to statistical methods for meta-analysis of the accuracy of a specific prediction model and of the added value of a specific predictor to an existing model. We discuss opportunities/challenges of the statistical methods and of common software…
Workshop Systematic reviews of prognostic studies V: Using GRADE to appraise bodies of evidence about overall prognosis and prognostic factors
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Iorio, Williams
Objectives:Systematic reviews (SR) of observational studies addressing patients' prognosis may provide robust estimates of the likelihood of adverse outcomes in broad populations or the role of patient’s characteristics in modifying their risk. As in any SR, consumers require estimates of the…
Poster Systematic reviews – leading or misleading?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Nørgaard, Bjerrum, Pedersen
Background: Patients who undergo invasive procedures in light sedation often feel pain during the procedure. Hypnotic analgesia as an adjunct to usual analgesia to relieve such pain has been investigated in numerous trials.
Objectives: To identify appraise and synthesise the best available…
Oral TRiads-P: A translational research programme to promote evidence-based practice in the community pharmacy setting
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Watson, Cassie, Duncan, Power, Young, Cooper, Newlands, Bonetti
Background: TRiads-P is a national, translational research programme funded by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) which adopts a co-ordinated approach using behavioural and theoretical research to achieve quality improvement in community pharmacy services.
Objectives: To improve the quality of…
Poster Taking it online: What to expect as you build online learning modules
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Sambunjak, Cumpston, Watts, Dwan, Higgins, Lasserson, Lefebvre, Page, Santesso, Vale
Background: Delivering effective training in systematic review methodology to an international audience is a challenge. Self-directed online learning modules are often used to deliver such training.
Objectives: To review the experiences and lessons learned for Cochrane's Learning and Support…
Poster Taking the informative value into account; the FIT-tool for a priori determination of the informative value of evidence
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Verstijnen, Heymans
Background: The Dutch National Health Care Institute (NHCI) assesses evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for the purpose of reimbursement decisions. In this context the NHCI developed the FIT-tool (Feasible Information Trajectory).
Tool: The FIT is a computerised tool that starts with…
Poster Task shifting of emergency caesarean section in south Ethiopia: Does it yield a lasting contribution to accessibility?
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Asefa, Hailemariam, Shiferaw, Mekonnen, Morgan, Berhan
Background: Preventable mortality from complications which arise during pregnancy and childbirth continue to claim more than a quarter of million women’s lives every year, almost all in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, lifesaving emergency obstetric services, including caesarean…
Poster TaskExchange: Online collaboration in guideline and review production
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Turner, Mavergames, Elliott
Background: Efficient production of guidelines and systematic reviews relies on getting people with the right skills and availability completing a wide range of tasks at just the right time. TaskExchange (taskexchange.cochrane.org) is an online platform that supports collaboration within the…
Poster Television White Space (TVWS) telemedicine implementation in Botswana: Challenges and opportunities
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Rodriguez, Chavez, Williams, Ndlovu, Kovarik
Background:Television white space (TVWS) refers to previously unused TV radio-frequency channels that can be leveraged to obtain broadband internet access. When set up and maintained properly, TVWS technology has the potential to provide high-speed connectivity to remote areas. TVWS has been…
Special Session Telling good stories: A workshop on the art of persuasion
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Greenhalgh
This session is linked to Plenary 4: EVIDENCE IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD: The evidence, ethos and pathos. How scientists can engage, and influence the public, press and politicians
Objectives:
To explore how the principles of rhetoric and persuasion introduced in the plenary ‘Evidence in a Post-Truth…
Poster Testicular cancer - methodological quality of clinical guidelines and systematic reviews
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Wilborn, Kliesch, Wullich, Albers, Schmidt
Background: Testicular cancer refers to a malignant disease that originates from the germ cells of the male testis. It represents 1% of male cancers and 5% of urological tumours. Nevertheless, its incidence in industrialised countries has been increasing during the last decades. This study forms…
Oral The CREATE Critical Appraisal Tool: A Tool To Appraise Research From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Harfield, Gibson, Morey, Kite, Canuto, Glover, Streak Gomersall, Davy, Carter, Aromataris, Braunack-Mayer
Background: In health research, systematic reviews are widely used to guide decision makers towards implementing best practice in policy and healthcare. Systematic reviews that assess and synthesise the best-available evidence on questions relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community…
Oral The Development of an Evidence Guideline for Traumatic Brain Injuries
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ott, Muthe, Eden, Hegmann, Hegmann, Harris
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been estimated to affect 1.7 to 10 million people annually in the general United States population. TBI may occur less frequently in the workplace compared to other injuries, but it carries enormous per capita costs, in large part due to vocational…
Poster The EQUATOR Network 2006-2016: A decade of promoting reporting guidelines to improve the health research literature
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Simera, de Beyer, Kirtley, Struthers, MacCarthy, Altman
Improving research publication and dissemination processes is directly linked to more transparent, reproducible and usable research. Reporting guidelines are simple tools that can help researchers to report every important detail about their study when writing a paper. Reports that follow these…
Workshop The GRADE-CERQual approach for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from qualitative evidence syntheses
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Munthe-Kaas, Lewin, Noyes, Glenton, Carlsen, Booth, Rashidian, Garside, Bohren, Tuncalp, Wainwright
Objectives: Systematic reviews of qualitative studies (qualitative evidence syntheses) are increasingly used to bring together findings from qualitative studies. A number qualitative evidence syntheses are now published or under way. In order to use synthesised findings to inform decisions we need…
Poster The Human Behaviour-Change Project: Collaborating with computer and information scientists to improve behavioural science
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Thomas, Norris, Finnerty, Marques, O’Mara-Eves, Stokes, Johnston, West, Kelly, Michie
Purpose: The Human Behaviour-Change Project (HBCP) is building an Artificial Intelligence system to scan the literature and extract key information and use this to build, update and interrogate a model of human behaviour change to determine: ‘What works, compared to what, how well, for whom, in…
Poster The ICTRP Search Portal as an information source for systematic reviews – current problems and recommendations on how to deal with them
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Waffenschmidt, Sow, Hausner
Background: Searching clinical trial registries is recommended as a standard component of information retrieval for systematic reviews. In this context, as a meta-registry containing data from 17 (national) registries, the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) Search Portal of the…
Poster The Malnutrition in the Elderly (MaNuEL) Knowledge Hub: Tackling the increasing problem of malnutrition in older persons
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Torbahn, Visser, Corish, Geisler, de Groot, Cruz-Jentoft, Lohrmann, O’Connor, Schindler, de van der Schueren, Kiesswetter, Streicher, Volkert
Background: Malnutrition in older people is an increasing health problem, mainly due to the changes in demographics in developed countries. It is associated with serious functional and health problems, which affect well-being and quality of life of the individual but also increase costs and burden…
Poster The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) collaborative: Optimising the value of observational data
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Karimkhani, Dellavalle, Schilling
Background: The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI, www.ohdsi.org) programme is a multi-stakeholder, interdisciplinary collaborative creating open-source solutions that enhance the value of observational health data through large-scale data sharing and analytics.…
Poster The Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for global policy making
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Cassano, Peña-Rosas, Stover, Rayco-Solon, Cuervo
Background:Global policy making in nutrition requires high-quality systematic reviews using state-of the art methods. The Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making was founded by 3 partners (WHO, Cochrane, Cornell) in 2014 to increase global capacity for…