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Poster Improving medical content accessed by millions: Wikipedia and the WikiJournal of Medicine
2020 Abstracts
Dawson, May, Hutton, Dellavalle
Background: Wikipedia’s health content receives over 10 million visits per day from around the world, across 286 languages. Efforts to improve the quality of the content and ensure that articles are not biased are ongoing and include student and trainee-based initiatives. The Cochrane Skin…
Poster International Comparison of the Job Satisfaction of Nurses and Gross Domestic Product (GDP): A Systematic Review
2020 Abstracts
Chiang, Chen
Background: Job satisfaction of nurses is the degree to which a registered nurse is satisfied with the individual's job performance, job adjustment, and the practice environment in the nursing profession. Faced with an aging global population, the World Health Organization estimates that human…
Poster US-PCG consumer involvement and outreach efforts
2020 Abstracts
Kumar, Kariyawasam, Hill, Jahanfar, Haas
Background: The US Satellite of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group (US-PCG) was launched in March 2019. One of the main goals of the US-PCG was to have a greater consumer involvement with satellite activities.
Consumer Workshop: Four consumers attended our first half-day workshop and…
Oral A Bayesian approach to detect outliers in Network Meta-analysis
2020 Abstracts
Metelli , Mavridis, Chaimani
Background: Network meta-analysis (NMA) is rapidly reaching the forefront of health care research. To avoid misleading conclusions and provide valuable information for clinical decision making, NMAs need to be assessed thoroughly against potential sources of bias. A potentially major threat of the…
Poster A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Based on SEER Database Research
2020 Abstracts
Li, Li, Zhang, Li, Bing, Yang
Background: In order to reduce the cancer burden on the population, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) established the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program Database (SEER) for tumor patients in the country in 1973. The huge amount of information in the SEER database provides a…
Poster A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Knowledge Structure of Frailty
2020 Abstracts
Zhang, Cao, Li, Ma, Yang
Background:
With the development of aging process, the frailty research has drawn an increasing amount of attention over the past decade. However, there is rare research on frailty from the perspectives of bibliometrics and visualization.
Objective:
To analyze the knowledge structure and…
Poster A Cochrane-driven scientific initiation
2020 Abstracts
Fontes, Nogueira, Pessata, Altoé, Franklin Leitão, Riera
Background: To encourage and support new incomers is one of Cochrane's priorities according to its strategic plan. Cochrane Training website provides several learning opportunities, with emphasis (but not exclusively) in reading, preparing, conducting, and publishing systematic reviews. There…
Oral A Living Systematic Review to Support Health Technology Assessment: The CADTH Experience
2020 Abstracts
Weeks, Kim, Lachance, Carson
Background: Living systematic reviews (LSRs)–systematic reviews that are continuously updated as new evidence becomes available–are increasingly being used to support clinical practice and guideline development. LSRs are also well suited to support health technology assessment (HTA), although to…
Poster A Meta-Epidemiological Study: Could Prospective Publication of Protocols Promote the Overall Reporting and Methodological Quality of Non-Cochrane Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis?
2020 Abstracts
#Lu, #Wang, #Lu, Ke, *Ge, *Yang
Background: The association between prospective registration and the overall reporting and methodological quality of systematic reviews (SRs) has been investigated. The impact of prospective publication of protocols on publicly reviewed journals and prospective registration only on the quality of…
Oral A Model for Timely Synthesis and Sharing of Evidence to Meet Health System Decision-Maker Needs
2020 Abstracts
Tricco, Chaudhry , Zarin, Abou-Setta, Curran, Clement, Holmes, LeBlanc, Rodin, Downey, Straus
Background: The Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance (hereafter, the Alliance) is a pan-Canadian initiative designed to promote evidence-informed healthcare and policy that is grounded in the principles of inclusion, diversity, integrated knowledge translation, co-…
Oral A Proposal of Reporting Items for Evidence Briefs for Policy: RIGHT-EBP
2020 Abstracts
Wang, Zhang, Wu, Ma, Yang, Chen, Yang, Lavis
Background: The evidence briefs for policy (EBPs) can provide potential policy options on a specific topic for health policymakers. An increasing number of organizations (e.g. McMaster Health Forum, the World Health Organization) already developed and are developing the policy briefs on different…
Poster A Rapid Horizon Scanning Review. Digital Interventions to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harm
2020 Abstracts
Campbell
Background:
There are some interventions, where the published data is already out of date. The rapidly evolving field of digital interventions is one such example. In order to address this challenge and to inform the future funding priorities of our commissioners, we adopted a horizon scanning…
Poster A Standardized HTA Report Summary for Rapidly Presenting Outside Findings
2020 Abstracts
Mitchell, Mull
Background: Health technology assessment (HTA) agencies have recognized past redundancies in evaluating new drugs, devices, and other technologies, and now understand that collaboration will increase the efficiency and sustainability of the HTA enterprise. This is called out specifically in the…
Oral A Survey of Characteristics and Potential Contribution of Registered Studies for 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
2020 Abstracts
Yang, Shang, Tian, Xiong, Lu, Jiang, Zhang, Zhang, Jin, Jin, Zhang, Willcox, Liu
Background: The World Health Organization characterized the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic on March 11. As of March 31, 803,541 people were confirmed infected with COVID-19 in 201 countries, areas or territories with cases. As a novel coronavirus disease, there is no…
Poster A Systematic Review of Splicing Analysis and Prediction Tools [SAPT] using SWiM (Synthesis Without Meta-analysis) Guidance.
2020 Abstracts
Jones
Background:
Genetic variants affecting splicing play a fundamental role in disease pathogenicity. Prediction of whether a genetic variant will affect splicing is difficult; many in silico tools exist which require adjustment for accurate splice prediction. Best practise guidelines often do not…
Poster A bibliometric analysis of Web of Science published literature on adverse drug effects
2020 Abstracts
Diaz-Barrera, Pacheco-Mendoza
Background: Adverse effects (AE) during hospital admissions affect nearly one out of 10 patients, 15.1% of these effects are drug-related, whereas 7.4% effects were lethal, all of which have a median percentage of preventability of 43.5%. Regarding scientific production (SP) in this AE field, it…
Poster A fully automated pipeline for a living review of methods to (semi)automate data extraction
2020 Abstracts
Schmidt, Olorisade, McGuinness, Higgins
Background: Data extraction is one of the most time-consuming and complex tasks for the authors of systematic reviews (SR). It is an area that holds promise for the application of machine learning technology and text mining. The fields of information science and data science are constantly evolving…
Poster A health service approach to dissemination, knowledge translation and research impact
2020 Abstracts
Minogue, Morrissey, Terrés
Background:
The literature about research waste tells us that two of the factors in research having little or no impact are it not being disseminated and implemented. Furthermore, there are significant barriers in getting research into practice, policy, and guidance. Embedding research, engaging…
Poster A measurement properties systematic review of instruments for assessing undergraduate nursing students’ evidence-based practice knowledge, attitudes, and skills
2020 Abstracts
Cardoso, Riitano, Stephenson, Santos, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Apóstolo
Background: Using evidence-based practice (EBP) in clinical practice have multiple benefits, such as improvement of patient outcomes, decrease health care costs, and increase quality of care. As education is a strategy to promote the EBP use in clinical practice, undergraduate nursing curricula…
Oral A modeling approach to derive baseline risk estimates for GRADE recommendations: Concepts, development, and results of its application on a guideline.
2020 Abstracts
Morgano, Wiercioch, Anderson, Brożek, Santesso, Xie, Cuker, Nieuwlaat, Akl, Darzi, Yepes-Nuñez, Exteandia-Ikobaltzeta, Rahman, Rajasekhar, Rogers, Tikkinen, Yates, Dahm, Schünemann
Background:
Baseline risks are required to calculate absolute effect estimates, which are essential elements of evidence summaries produced for guideline panels. Systematic reviews of prognostic observational studies are scarce and the available estimates are often not directly applicable to…