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Workshop Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2019 statement: checklist workshop
2019 Santiago
Page, McKenzie, Bossuyt, Boutron, Hoffmann, Mulrow, Shamseer, Moher, on behalf of the PRISMA 2019 Group
Background: the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement was published in 2009 and designed to help authors of systematic reviews prepare a transparent report of their review. Authors and journals have widely adopted PRISMA, as evidenced by its 40,000…
Workshop Preparing Cochrane Reviews for publication: common errors and copy-editing
2019 Santiago
Royle, Hilton
Background: all Cochrane Reviews are copy-edited before publication to improve clarity, consistency, accuracy and completeness. Cochrane's Copy Edit Support team encounters a diverse range of editorial and style issues and queries, which can be fed back into the earlier stages of the editorial…
Oral Presenting evidence to professionals and the general population - a qualitative inquiry on recipients’ perception of systematic review summary formats
2019 Santiago
Bała, Prokop-Dorner, Zając
Background: one of the key objectives of Cochrane is to promote unbiased information about the effects of healthcare interventions. The results of systematic reviews (SR) are supposed to inform not only the professional discourse, but also to help lay people in making their health choices.…
Poster Prevalence of gift and ghost authors in Cochrane Reviews
2019 Santiago
Gülen, Fonnes, Andresen, Rosenberg
Background: previous studies had demonstrated the prevalence of illegitimate authorship, e.g. gift and ghost authors, despite the authorship guidelines established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and implemented by Cochrane.
Objectives: this study aimed to estimate the…
Poster Prioritization approaches in the development of health practice guidelines: a systematic review
2019 Santiago
El-Harakeh, Morsi, Fadlallah, Bou-Karroum, Lotfi, Akl
Background: given the considerable efforts and resources required to develop health practice guidelines, developers need to prioritize the topics and questions to address.
Objective: this systematic review aims to identify and describe prioritization approaches in the development of clinical,…
Oral Probability of selecting a treatment to recommend (POST-R): a new measure for ranking treatments in network meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Chaimani, Mavridis, Sbidian, Porcher, Ravaud
Background: network meta-analysis (NMA) under certain conditions provides the highest possible level of evidence for the development of clinical guidelines. A key feature of NMA is that it can rank for a specific outcome all alternative treatments of a comparative effectiveness review as long as…
Poster Profile of Cochrane review authors
2019 Santiago
Guerra Cabó Nunes Gomes, Alves Assis Garcia, Pinho Teixeira, Vajda de Albuquerque, Machado Martins Milby, Pereira Nunes Pinto, Tury de Mendonça, Fernandes Moça Trevisani
Background: Cochrane methodology is the gold standard for systematic reviews, providing healthcare professionals, stakeholders and patients with a firm foundation for decision-making. As health care is broad and complex, involving patients, professionals, stakeholders, health issues and resources,…
Poster Protocol registration improves reporting quality of systematic reviews in dentistry
2019 Santiago
Sarkis-Onofre, Santos, Agostini, Bassani, Pereira
Objectives: the aims of this study were to assess whether the previous registration of a systematic review (SR) is associated with the improvement of the quality of the report of the SR and whether registration reduced outcome reporting bias.
Methods: we performed a search in PubMed for SRs in…
Poster PubMed Similar Articles as search method in rapid reviews
2019 Santiago
Klerings, Glechner
Background: EbM Ärzteinformationszentrum (Ebminfo.at) is a rapid review (RR) service for doctors working in Lower Austrian hospitals. Reviews generally focus on narrow clinical questions and use systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials as evidence base. To streamline the search process,…
Oral Publicly-available data from more than 130 systematic reviews containing more than 13,000 studies – The Systematic Review Data Repository (SRDR)
2019 Santiago
Saldanha, Smith, Ntzani, Jap, Balk, Lau
Background: the global systematic review (SR) enterprise involves a great deal of effort and resources. Much of these are spent gathering large amounts of data about included studies from multiple sources that often extend well beyond journal articles, such as conference abstracts, study registries…
Workshop Qualitative evidence synthesis: methods for integration with effectiveness reviews
2019 Santiago
Noyes, Harden, Thomas
Background: qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) is an umbrella term for the methodologies associated with the systematic review of qualitative research evidence, conducted either as a stand-alone review or as a part of a review of interventions. Methods for conducting QES have developed against a…
Poster Qualitative evidence synthesis: three different approaches to using framework synthesis within healthcare research
2019 Santiago
Shaw, Orr, Abbott, Gwernan-Jones, Thompson Coon, Garside
Objectives: to share our experiences, methods and outcomes of three recently undertaken qualitative evidence syntheses, each incorporating a different way of working with framework synthesis.
Methods: our first example of framework synthesis is the approach used within a traditional nine-month…
Oral Quality Assessment of Prognostic Accuracy Studies (QUAPAS): an extension of the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2) tool for systematic reviews of prognostic test accuracy studies
2019 Santiago
Lee, Vali, Zafarmand, Bossuyt
Background: systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) studies utilize the QUADAS-2 (Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies) tool for risk of bias and applicability assessment. Unfortunately, no comparable instrument exists for systematic reviews of prognostic test accuracy…
Oral Quality appraisal of prevalence studies: a systematic review of tools with classification of their components
2019 Santiago
Migliavaca, Stein, Colpani, Falavigna
Background: prevalence estimates are important in public health since they support priority-setting-definition, public health policies, and health technologies assessment. Despite their importance, there is still a lack of standards and uncertainty related to the critical appraisal of this type of…
Poster Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
2019 Santiago
Montesinos-Guevara, Hidalgo, Viteri-García, Escobar Liquitay , Franco , Simancas-Racines
Background: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis, which are chronic disorders characterized by inflammation of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. IBD mainly occurs after the second decade of life. IBD is known to be caused by a combination of genetic and…
Poster Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the treatment of psoriasis
2019 Santiago
Montesinos-Guevara, Andrade Miranda, Bedoya Hurtado , Escobar Liquitay , Viteri-García, Franco, Simancas-Racines
Background: psoriasis is a chronic and multisystemic inflammatory disease with predominantly skin and joint manifestations. It is characterized by an abnormal regulation of T cells and keratinocyte interaction. Its prevalence ranges between 0.09% to 5.1% in several countries. It mainly occurs…
Oral Quality assessment tool for the methodology of policy brief for health
2019 Santiago
Rego, Aguiar, Silva, Gomes, Wachira, Leão, Sachetti
Background: a policy brief for health is a concise summary of a specific problem, neutral, straight to the point and free of jargon. It has scientific evidence-informed options and its target public are decision makers. This type of study commences with a description of the problem and compiles the…
Poster Quality of evidence in main comparisons of Cochrane intervention reviews
2019 Santiago
Civile, Câmara, Rocha, Pinto, Saconato, Atallah, Trevisani
Background: in recent years, quality of evidence assessment of Cochrane Reviews has been advocated in order to increase the degree of certainty and confidence about the clinical outcome results presented from the analyzed studies. The GRADE approach considers the limitations in study designs,…
Oral Quality of evidence matters: is it reported and interpreted in infertility journals?
2019 Santiago
Glujovsky, Ciapponi, Sueldo, Valanzasca
Background: despite the increasing use and popularity of systematic reviews (SRs), it is crucial to assess the certainty or quality of evidence (QoE) that they provide, since the design itself does not guarantee high QoE. The GRADE approach is the soundest system for rating the quality of a body of…
Poster Quality of studies published as systematic reviews on nutritional interventions in cancer prevention – a systematic methodological survey
2019 Santiago
Bala, Storman, Koperny, Zajac, Tobola, Swierz, Staskiewicz, Górecka, Skuza, Johnston
Background: previous studies addressing the quality of systematic reviews/meta-analyses (SR/MAs) in several healthcare fields have demonstrated that review methodology and overall quality is often questionable; such an assessment is lacking in the nutrition field.
Objectives: we aimed to examine…