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Poster Title: Assessing the Quality of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) development in Taiwan using the AGREE II instrument.
2020 Abstracts
Chen, Chen, Tam, Huang, Kuo
Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are intended to improve quality of care based on the best available evidence. A credible CPG is an essential tool for knowledge translation. A quality CPG can facilitate clinical decision making. Therefor it is imperative to evaluate the quality of…
Oral To blog or not to blog? Using blogs as a tool to provide consumer friendly evidence-based information on optimal aging
2020 Abstracts
Farran, Neil-Sztramko , Dobbins
Background: The integration of technology into everyday life has resulted in unprecedented access to information. However, in the age of “fake news” it is difficult to know which messages relevant to healthy aging are trustworthy. Difficulty understanding scientific research and identifying…
Oral To share or not to share data: how valid are copious randomized controlled trials?
2020 Abstracts
Bordewijk, Wang, van Wely, Costello, Norman, Teede, Gurrin, Mol, Li
Background: Increasingly individual participant data (IPD) is being shared and integrated from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for systematic reviews and other righteous purposes. Granting open access of data has implications for the promotion of fair and transparent conduct of RCTs, which is…
Oral Towards rapid learning health systems: supporting the Central Asian and European countries in using research evidence for policy-making
2020 Abstracts
Reinap, Kuchenmüller
Background: Despite available research evidence that can offer solutions to many public health and health systems challenges and enable rapid learning, deficits in knowledge translation remain a major barrier for using evidence in making health decisions. This is especially the case for countries…
Oral Treatment effect estimates for nontruncated trials need adjustment when conducting sensitivity analyses to assess risk of bias in early-stopped trials
2020 Abstracts
Schou, Marschner, Askie
Background: Stopping studies early due to an apparent treatment benefit (truncated studies) may lead to overestimation of the treatment effect and thus a risk of bias. GRADE guidelines recommend sensitivity analyses in which truncated studies are omitted from meta-analyses, to assess whether early…
Poster US Cochrane Network-Who are we?
2020 Abstracts
Hill, Haas, Kariyawasam, Kumar, Jahanfar
Background: The scientific community in the United States (US) is now linked with the international Cochrane body through the US Cochrane Network since the June 2019 launch in Washington, DC. Central Michigan University Affiliate of Cochrane US-Network is responsible for fulfilling training and…
Poster Ultra-rapid synthesis of secondary sources for hospital COVID-19 guidance
2020 Abstracts
Mitchell, Flores, Connolly, Goel, Gottschalk, Kavanagh, Philipson, Wang, Wood, Mull
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about an urgent need for rapid evidence-based guidance to inform local decision making on infection control, procedures for safely discharging and following up on patients who have been hospitalized, and diverse other topics.
Objectives: 1--Rapidly…
Poster Understanding patients, physicians and caregivers’s perspectives on Artificial Intelligence：A targeted review of qualitative studies
2020 Abstracts
Chu, Zhang, Feng, Lu, Yang
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the development of computer algorithms to accomplish tasks traditionally associated with human intelligence, such as the ability to learn and solve problems. Currently, AI has been applied in some medical fields. Potential benefits of AI may be…
Oral University conflict of interest policies for health research and education: a scoping review
2020 Abstracts
Fabbri, Rasmussen, Hróbjartsson, Lundh
Background: Over the last few decades a huge body of evidence has shown that financial conflicts of interest can jeopardise the integrity of health research and the objectivity of education provided to medical students. These concerns have led some Universities to implement institutional policies…
Oral Updating gap in Cochrane systematic reviews: an observational pilot study. Preliminary results
2020 Abstracts
Antequera Martín, Solà, Bonfill
Background: Cochrane systematic reviews (SRs) are the cornerstone of setting clinical recommendations, which requires a rigorous developing and updating process. Although the Cochrane Collaboration's policy defines that Cochrane Reviews should be assessed for updating within two years of…
Oral Updating guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses: development of the PRISMA 2020 statement
2020 Abstracts
Page, McKenzie, Bossuyt, Boutron, Hoffmann, Mulrow, Shamseer, Moher
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 (SRs) prepare a transparent report of what they did and what they found. Authors and journals have widely adopted PRISMA, as…
Oral Updating recommendations in guidelines using new tools. Which approach is more efficient?
2020 Abstracts
Torres, Rojas, Gonzáles, Reyes, Barrera, Mancilla
Background: A major challenge in updating CPGs is to efficiently identify new, relevant evidence. As part of a non-communicable diseases (NCDs) clinical practice guidelines implementation project in Colombia, we evaluated the efficiency and feasibility of three approaches for identifying up to date…
Oral Updating systematic reviews can improve the precision of outcomes: a comparative study
2020 Abstracts
Gao, Yang, Cai, Liu, Tian
Background:
Updating systematic reviews (SRs) may generate new and very important information, but the process of updating the SR is time-consuming and may inflate larger type I errors. And it is still unclear whether the precision of outcomes is improved during the update process.
Objectives…
Poster Use of GRADE approach to rate the certainty of evidence from network meta-analyses: a cross-sectional survey
2020 Abstracts
Pan, Wang, Lai, Hou, Wang, Wang, Ge
Background: Network meta-analysis (NMA) could address the comparative effectiveness of multiple interventions by way of combining direct and indirect estimates of effect, and thus is rapidly growing popularity and influence. But application of NMA’s results requires understanding the quality of the…
Poster Use of GRADE in Chinese clinical practice guidelines
2020 Abstracts
Xun, Zhou, Yang, Wang, Shi, Ma, Luo, Chen
Background:Evaluating the quality of the evidence on which guidelines are based is an essential step in the development of appropriate guideline recommendations for practice, the use of which should be beneficial for patients.
Objectives:To determine whether and to what extent GRADE (Grading of…
Oral Use of GRADE in the Non-Cochrane Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy
2020 Abstracts
Shi, Wang, Zhou, Xun, Zhao, Chen
Background: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy summarize the accuracy of sensitivity and specificity and are important to inform evidence-based use of diagnostic tests in clinical practice. When there is a Meta-analysis, the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and…
Poster Use of Health Technology Assessment in Clinical Practice Guidelines: a Retrospective Analysis
2020 Abstracts
Zhang, Yang, Ma, Wang, Chen
Background:
Clinical practice guidelines are statements that include recommendations for the optimization of patient care. To support the health care decisions, policy and decision makers need reliable information on the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. Economic evidence is…
Oral Use of systematic reviews and rapid evidence synthesis in setting up National Health Research Priorities in Malaysia
2020 Abstracts
Muhamad, Abu Sapian, Musa, Bakhtiar, Too, Ab Ghani, Johari, Lai, Aris
Background: The Ministry of Health (MoH), Malaysia is committed to providing health services for all citizens and is interested in strengthening the country’s health research capacity. Health research priority setting should be as evidence-based as possible, while also incorporating the views of a…
Poster Using Children and Adolescents as Standardized Patients in Health: A Scoping Review and Evidence Map
2020 Abstracts
Yu, Hou, Chen
Background: Using children and adolescents as standardized patients play an increasingly important role in clinical teaching and practice. However, there are a lack of systematic descriptions of the current research status and existing problems on this topic.
Objectives: To evaluate children and…
Oral Using Microsoft Academic Graph in a rapid review of reviews on vaccine uptake
2020 Abstracts
Stansfield
Background
Review databases are promising sources for rapid reviews of reviews to provide a breadth of studies with a relatively low yield of results. A novel option is Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) to identify related publications and citation searching of relevant studies. A rapid map of…