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Poster A new online course on Campbell Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Methods
2023 London
Valentine, Littell, Young, Pigott, Premji, Engelbert
Background:
Many systematic reviews are conducted by research teams with deep domain knowledge but little experience or expertise in evidence synthesis methods. One goal of the Campbell Collaboration is to provide training for the conduct of high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the…
Poster A new taxonomy is proposed for defining the interests of stakeholders’ representatives in health research
2023 London
Akl, Khabsa, Schünemann, Tomlinson, Parker, Tugwell, Concannon
Background: There are concerns about bias arising from the interests that stakeholder representatives may bring into the process of health research.
Objectives: To distinguish between the legitimate interests of stakeholder groups and the conflicts of interests of their representatives.…
Oral A novel modeling approach for producing treatment hierarchies in network meta-analysis
2023 London
Evrenoglou, Chaimani
Background:
Network meta-analysis (NMA) allows synthesising the evidence simultaneously on multiple treatments. A key output of NMA is the relative ranking of the treatments; nevertheless, it has attracted a lot of criticism. This is mainly because ranking is a very influential output and, thus,…
Poster A passing grade? How risk communication strategies aligned with citizen's efforts to access health information during COVID-19: A rapid review
2023 London
Thai, Hopkins , Stoby, Hagerman, Sala, Neumann, Ford, Dobbins
Background: Risk communication strategies have been employed during public health crises. However, there is a need to determine which strategies were effective during the COVID-19 pandemic and how these aligned with individuals’ experiences accessing and interacting with information.
Objectives:…
Poster A question of balance : Sustainability and Ethics of drug pricing : A Systematic Review
2023 London
CHA, Lee
Background: Sustainability in healthcare is a crucial concept in public health, and currently, there are ongoing debates regarding controlling the high cost of drugs in many countries, including the United States and the Republic of Korea. Each country manages access to high-cost drugs differently…
Poster A rapid, fit-for-purpose QES for a WHO guideline: processes and challenges
2023 London
Brand, Rohwer, Naude
Background: The evidence-to-decision (EtD) criteria for World Health Organization (WHO) guideline development requires the explicit consideration of acceptability, feasibility and equity implications of interventions. We were commissioned by WHO to produce a qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) on…
Oral A real-world example demonstrating the application of Cochrane guidance to ensure transparent synthesis of evidence addressing a broad policy question
2023 London
Brennan, Murano, McDonald, Turner, Synnot, Nguyen, Jones, McKenzie
Background:
Specifying questions and criteria at the level of each synthesis can enhance the transparency of reviews and help ensure that reviews address questions of importance to decision-makers. Version 6 of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions introduced the concept of…
Poster A repository of Cochrane nutrition systematic reviews: providing a nutrition lens on the Cochrane Library
2023 London
Naude, Visser, Brand, Durão
Background:
Cochrane Nutrition aims to support and enable evidence-informed decision-making for nutrition policy and practice by advancing the preparation and use of high quality, relevant nutrition reviews. Supporting the use of Cochrane nutrition reviews includes making them easy to find.…
Poster A scientific initiation underpinned in free Cochrane materials is feasible and effective in delivering high-quality training to undergraduates.
2023 London
Fontes, Cordeiro, Pires de Castro Miranda
Background: To encourage and support new incomers is one of Cochrane’s priorities according to its strategic plan. The Cochrane Training website provides several learning opportunities, with emphasis on reading, preparing, conducting, and publishing systematic reviews. There are tools and online…
Poster A test to assess claims about treatment effects for Spanish primary school children: the development and validation of the interactive CLAIM Test
2023 London
Samsó Jofra, Sanz-Herranz, Martínez García
Background: The main objective of the Informed Health Choices (IHC) project is to teach people to assess treatment claims and make informed health choices. For this purpose, the Claim Evaluation Tools item bank was developed to measure people’s ability to apply the IHC key concepts (concepts that…
Poster A tool to assess risk of bias in studies estimating the prevalence of mental health disorders (RoB-PrevMH)
2023 London
Tonia, Buitrago-Garcia, Peter, Mesa-Vieira, Li, Furukawa, Cipriani, Leucht, Low , Salanti
Background: Studies of prevalence provide essential information for estimating the burden of mental health conditions, which can inform research and policymaking. The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a large volume of literature on the prevalence of various conditions,…
Poster A two-stage rapid umbrella review of interventions relevant to the Welsh context to support recruitment and retention of clinical staff
2023 London
Edwards, Csontos, Gillen, Carrier, Lewis, Cooper, Gal, Davies, Law, Greenwell, Edwards
Background:
The United Kingdom is facing an acute healthcare workforce shortage in every discipline, hindering National Health Service (NHS) recovery from the residual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing ongoing endemic pressures.
Objectives:
To investigate the effectiveness of…
Poster ACURATE: a guide for reporting sham controls in trials using acupuncture
2023 London
Lee, Ang, Lee, Kim, Lee, Chae, Lee
Background: Evidence shows that the quality of reporting of trials using sham controls is not ideal and has yet to improve over time. The lack of proper reporting impedes readers from fully understanding the validity of acupuncture trial findings and their relevant effectiveness.
Objectives: To…
Poster ADAPTING CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES TO DIGITAL TOOLS: A METHODOLOGICAL STUDY
2023 London
Motter, Gadenz, Leao, Riera, Caluza, Mantese, Batista, Aquino, Gonçalves, Bitencourt, Coelho, Oliveira, Brandes, Suffert, Rocha, Perius, Sperling
Background: In Brazil, the process of development and updating of the clinical guidelines for the Brazilian Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS) is already well systematized by the Ministry of Health. However, implementing such guidelines within local contexts and at the point of…
Oral AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center and NIH Pathways to Prevention programs: A decade-long partnership in closing evidence gaps
2023 London
Bañez, Niebuhr, Iyer, McNellis, Chang, Umscheid
Background: The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)’s Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program produces evidence reports to inform healthcare decision-makers such as funding agencies supporting new research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Pathways to Prevention (…
Poster AI for Dummies: Do DistillerSR AI Tools Improve Screening Efficiency for Evidence Syntheses?
2023 London
Robalino, Durbin
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency of time-consuming tasks such as title/abstract screening has been difficult to implement for many groups who conduct systematic reviews. DistillerSR provides review authors a cloud-based tool to screen, assess, and abstract studies…
Oral Abstracts of Cochrane reviews are getting longer, but this has no large impact on the reporting quality.
2023 London
Helbach, Wandscher, Pieper, Hoffmann
Background:
In our previous study on the reporting quality of abstracts according to PRISMA-A, we found that abstracts of Cochrane reviews (CRs) were better reported than non-Cochrane reviews, differed significantly in length (median length: 507 words vs. 249 words), and appeared to be getting…
Poster Academic-clinical partnership for enhancing evidence-based healthcare in a Portuguese Context: a case study
2023 London
Cardoso, Cardoso, Marques, Andrade, Fernandes, Rodrigues, Apóstolo
Background: Academic-clinical partnerships offer opportunities to promote evidence-based healthcare in clinical and educational settings. An integrated approach, with the active collaboration of all stakeholders (researchers, healthcare professionals, and final consumers), becomes essential to…
Poster Adapting evidence-based peri-discharge complex interventions for reducing 30-day hospital readmissions among Heart Failure and COPD patients in Hong Kong
2023 London
ZHONG, Wong, Hung, Yeoh, Wong, Chung
Background
Avoidable 30-day hospital readmission is a key policy problem among health systems globally, including Hong Kong. Among all health conditions, heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are two leading causes for such readmissions. Effectiveness of peri-discharge…
Poster Addressing confusion in evidence synthesis: developing a structured taxonomy for informing the synthesis of evidence to inform policy and practice
2023 London
Munn, Pollock
Background:
Historically, evidence synthesis strategies focused on answering whether or not something works (i.e., questions relating to effectiveness). However, there now exists a multitude of approaches, methods, and methodologies to conduct evidence synthesis. Enabling researchers to ensure that…