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Oral Cochrane Clinical Answers – content expansion priorities and subject coverage
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Burch
Background: Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCAs; www.cochraneclinicalanswers.com) aim to place the results of Cochrane Reviews (CRs) within the context of current clinical practice and, in doing so, increase the usage of CRs to inform healthcare decisions. With over 7000 CRs on the CDSR, and up to 80…
Poster Cochrane Clinical Answers: Enabling the evidence to make a difference
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Pettersen, Tort
Background: Healthcare professionals need tools to enable them to implement the reliable and high-quality synthesised information from up-to-date research. Cochrane Reviews provide a valuable source of evidence synthesis, but can take a long time to read and have a large volume of data, much of…
Poster Cochrane Crowd: Using citizen science to meet the challenge of information overload in evidence production
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Noel-Storr, Dooley, Steele, Mavergames, Turner, McDonald, Green, Tovey, Murano, Elliott, Thomas
Background: At a time when research output is expanding exponentially, citizen science, the process of engaging willing volunteers in scientific research activities, has an important role to play in helping to manage the information overload. It also creates a model of contribution that enables…
Oral Cochrane Living Systematic Reviews: guidance, piloting and early evaluation
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Synnot, Turner, Akl, Schünemann, Kahale, Quinn, McDonald, Green, Grimshaw, Sullivan, Buchbinder, Johnston, Wolfenden, Hodder, Tovey, Soares-Weiser, MacLehose, Hilton, Elliott
Background: A number of Cochrane author teams are piloting Living Systematic Reviews (LSRs), with support from Project Transform and the Living Systematic Review Network. While LSRs promise to keep high-quality evidence syntheses continually up-to-date, they require some modifications to existing…
Poster Cochrane Rehabilitation Field: Evidence to rehabilitation and rehabilitation expertise to Cochrane
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Kiekens, Gimigliano, Arienti, Pollet, Ilieva, Negrini
Background: Based on an initiative of the European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM), the idea of a Cochrane Rehabilitation Field was supported by a number of organisations, including the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). After approval by…
Poster Cochrane Russia capacity building: Dissemination of Cochrane evidence, improving quality and measuring performance
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ziganshina, Alexandrova, Arslanov, Cong, Gabdrakhmanov, Kurbatova, Tashtanbekova, Yudina
Background: Cochrane Russia manages a Russian translation project with a team of 140+ volunteers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, USA, UK, Germany. We translate and disseminate Cochrane plain-language summaries (PLS), blogshots, podcasts, press releases, Cochrane…
Poster Cochrane and World Health Organization “Rehabilitation 2030: A call for action”
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Gimigliano, Arienti, Kiekens, Negrini
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched in February 2017 “Rehabilitation 2030 - a call for action”. This is likely to have a deep impact on health systems in the next few years. Cochrane has approved the new Rehabilitation Field and has been invited by WHO as a relevant stakeholder in this…
Oral Cochrane as a knowledge commons: an institutional analysis
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Heywood, Stephani, Garner
Background: The governance of common resources was the research area of Eleanor Ostrom, economist and Nobel laureate. The theory was that common resources are over exploited, and their care and sustainability is overlooked by users.
Methods: We took Cochrane as a knowledge commons, and applied…
Oral Cochrane consumers and data sharing of clinical trials - a survey; IMPACT (IMProving Access to Clinical Trials data) Observatory
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Krleza-Jeric, Jeric, Marusic
Background: As inclusion of the participant-level data (IPD) in Cochrane reviews would increase the reliability of evidence gained by these reviews, and speed knowledge creation, there is currently a great interest in and lively activity aimed at increasing public sharing of clinical trial (CT)…
Poster Cochrane workshop: Product marketing and management
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Pedrosa, Silva
With the arrival of the 21st century and all the connectivity within, we are participating in a historic moment for our society, with the advent of the Internet and means of transport becoming safer and faster, we can be anywhere in the world, connecting to all information available worldwide. For…
Oral Collaboration in guideline development: European Respiratory Society and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Fellowships in Guideline Methodology
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Thornton, Tonia, Rigau, Pannetier, Brusselle, Baker, Coello, Miravittles, Vaccaro
Background: As the need for evidence-based guidelines following strict methodological standards is increasing, there is a corresponding need to increase the European Respiratory Society's (ERS) methodological capacity.
Objectives: To establish a Fellowship in Guideline Methodology in…
Poster Combination antiretroviral treatment use in PMTCT programmes: 6-week HIV prevalence and relationship to time of ART initiation and mixed feeding
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Ndarukwa , Zunza
Background: Zimbabwe is one of the countries worst hit by the Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) scourge with an estimated 1.4 million people living with HIV. 16% of pregnant women aged 15 to 49 years are infected with HIV. More than 90% of HIV…
Poster Combining agribusiness training and skillful parenting to reduce violence against children in impoverished communities in rural Tanzania: A pragmatic cluster randomised-controlled trial
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Lachman, Wamoyi, Maganga, Aniseth, King'ori, Spreckelsen, Wight, Gardner
Background: There is emerging evidence regarding the effectiveness of parenting programmes to reduce the risk of violence against children in low- and middle-income countries. However, in highly-deprived communities, parenting programmes may require additional economic support to address the…
Poster Combining evidence from observational and modelling studies to inform a breast cancer screening guideline
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Canelo-Aybar, Posso, SAZ-PARKINSON, Alonso-Coello
Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) should be based on the best scientific evidence, however for some interventions clinical randomised trials (RCT) are not available. Modelling studies is an alternative to evaluate benefits and harms in this scenario. In the context of a breast-cancer…
Workshop Common errors in meta-analysis – lessons and learning from the Cochrane review-screening programme
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Bickerdike, Cumpston, Livingstone, Opiyo, Sambunjak
Objectives: The objectives of this workshop are to highlight common statistical errors made in Cochrane systematic reviews, and to provide practical, hands-on guidance to help authors and editors address these errors.
Description: The Cochrane Editorial Unit (CEU) quality assurance team has been…
Poster Communities generate evidence to inform national advocacy for improved human resources for health in Uganda
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Asinguza
Background: Advocacy for Better Health aims to equip citizens with an enabling environment and systems to effectively advocate for strong action plans to improve health services. This is because the 2020 Government target is for Uganda to transform into a middle-income country (National Development…
Poster Community and home-based exercise for the prevention and treatment of hypertension
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Cameron, Moss, Onagbiye, Makamu
Background: Hypertension, an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases and highly prevalent in South Africa and other African countries, exerts a substantial burden of disease. Prevalence estimates in African countries range from 40% to 60%, and this high prevalence in resource-limited…
Poster Community perceptions of safe motherhood in Ethiopia: a qualitative needs assessment activity informing the educational component of an intervention study
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Bergen, Mamo, Asfaw, Kiros, Abebe, Kurji, Labonté , Kulkarni, Abera, Bulcha, Morankar
Background: Reducing maternal mortality and improving child health outcomes are global priorities stated by the United Nations. Ethiopia, despite recent improvements, has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality globally (nearly 700 deaths/100 000 live births), and performs poorly in terms of…
Poster Comparative detection and enumeration methods of diarrhoea causing E. coli in drinking water: Systematic review
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Tadesse
Background: In Ethiopia water quality monitoring was the responsibility of Ministry of Water Irrigation and Electricity, and its structures up to Woreda Water Offices as an implementer and Ministry of Health and its respective structures up to Woreda Health Offices as regulator in the case of rural…
Poster Comparative effectiveness of treatment options for subacromial shoulder conditions: A network meta-analysis
2017 Cape Town [Global Evidence Summit]
Babatunde, Ensor, Littlewood, Jordan, Roddy, Foster, van der Windt
Background: Subacromial shoulder conditions (SSCs) account for nearly 70% of all shoulder pain presentations to primary care, affecting one in three persons, half of whom still report pain and functional limitations 12 months post initial diagnosis. Various treatments are available for management…