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Poster Concept and design of a cluster-randomized trial testing the impact of disseminating evidence-based recommendations in non-communicable diseases in Colombia
2019 Santiago
Villar, Moreno, Vaquiro, Muñoz
Background: in recent years, Colombia has made progress towards the implementation of evidence-based healthcare practice, including the emergence of over 50 clinical practice guidelines backed by the ministry of health, and a national health technology assessment agency. Despite these advances, it…
Oral Conducting a qualitative evidence synthesis of trial-sibling studies to inform an intervention review: experiences and preliminary results from two Cochrane Reviews
2019 Santiago
Aldin, Chakraverty, Baumeister, Monsef, Noyes, Jakob, Seven, Anapa, Woopen, Kalbe, Skoetz
Background: qualitative research aims to explore peoples’ opinions, experiences and their perception of the world and their surroundings. It explores behaviour and phenomena that may be difficult to quantify and explain by numbers. A qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) summarizes the evidence from…
Poster Conducting a systematic review in Latin America: difficulties in searching studies and lessons learned
2019 Santiago
Otzen, Manterola, Melnik
Background: in 2019, the USA appears as the country with the most publications indexed in the Web of Science, almost double those in China and four times those in Germany. In Latin America, Brazil is the country with the greatest number of documents published in the Web of Science, ranking 13th in…
Poster Conducting network meta-analysis of treatments for bladder pain syndrome in adults: benefits and challenges
2019 Santiago
Scott, Imamura, Wallace, Brazzelli
Background: bladder pain syndrome (BPS) is a poorly understood clinical condition with patients presenting with varying symptoms. The management of BPS is challenging for both patients and practitioners. At present, there is not a universally accepted diagnosis and diverse causative factors have…
Oral Considering aspects of equity and diversity in the assessment of interventions for improving health literacy in migrants: preliminary results
2019 Santiago
Baumeister, Aldin, Chakraverty, Monsef, Jakob, Seven, Anapa, Kalbe, Skoetz, Woopen
Background: health literacy is a key concept for autonomous health decisions and behaviour, effective prevention and management of diseases, as well as for people’s overall health status. Empirical research identified migrants as a high-risk group for limited health literacy. However, female and…
Oral Controlling for diversity in control groups: assessing control group support and its impact on outcomes in smoking cessation evidence synthesis
2019 Santiago
Johnston, Black, Viechtbauer, West, Hartman-Boyce, Michie, Eisma, deBruin
Background: it is widely recognized that support received by control or comparator groups in trials of interventions varies greatly, can influence outcomes and may therefore bias results in evidence synthesis. However there is no agreed method of assessing and allowing for control group…
Oral Core outcome sets and Cochrane Reviews – Cochrane reviewers can and should do more
2019 Santiago
Saldanha, Hughes, Kirkham, Li, Oliveira, Williamson
Background: outcomes are fundamental to Cochrane Reviews because they are yardsticks with which systematic review authors and decision makers determine intervention effectiveness and safety. Core outcome sets (COS) can help primary researchers as well as systematic review authors consistently…
Workshop Core principles for dissemination: a checklist for improving the quality of Cochrane’s dissemination products
2019 Santiago
Rosenbaum, Fønhus, Glenton, Anthony, Head
Background: when developing Cochrane dissemination products (for instance, blogshots, PLS, podcasts, and other products), we want to give a reasonably complete, nuanced, and unbiased representation of the evidence. In addition, we want to present the evidence in a way that people with or without…
Oral Correlation of day-period, clinical evaluation and duplex in varicose veins. A cross-sectional study in an upper-middle income country of South America
2019 Santiago
Cavalieri, Barros, Freitas, Trevizo, César, Amaral, Cassola, Prestes, Clezar, Guedes, Flumignan, Vasconcelos, Nakano, Guedes, Amorim, Baptista-Silva, Flumignan
Background: chronic venous disease (CVD) is defined as a dysfunction of the venous system caused by valve incompetence. It is a public health problem given its high prevalence (87%) and its complications. The worsening of symptoms and signals in the afternoon period or after extended time in an…
Poster Corticosteroids for septic arthritis in children
2019 Santiago
Delgado-Noguera, Forero-Delgadillo, Franco, Vasquez, Calvache
Background: septic arthritis is an acute infection of the joints characterized by erosive disruption of the articular space. The most vulnerable population for septic arthritis includes infants and preschoolers, especially boys. Septic arthritis disproportionately affects populations of low…
Poster Could LILACS database be a relevant source for evidence about neglected diseases?
2019 Santiago
Batista , Latorraca, Rocha, Puga, Riera
Background: LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, free accessed in http://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en/) is the most important and embracing index of scientific literature from Latin America and Caribbean (AL&C). Nowadays, it includes around 924 journals and non conventional…
Oral Coverage, comprehensiveness and quality of Cochrane Reviews to answer questions in National Guidelines
2019 Santiago
Bravo-Soto, Silva, Lobos-Urbina, Ortiz-Muñoz, Bravo-Jeria, Morel-Marambio, Verdugo-Paiva, Rada
Background: Cochrane Reviews are acknowledged to be rigorous, and their average quality is better than non-Cochrane reviews. Cochrane has developed a 'Strategy to 2020', that aims to put Cochrane evidence at the heart of health decision making all over the world. However, quality comes…
Workshop Covidence, a multi-lingual tool that helps to produce systematic reviews (in Spanish)
2019 Santiago
Glujovsky, Ciapponi, Arno
Background: Covidence is Cochrane’s online systematic review production platform, improving the efficiency and experience of producing systematic reviews. The tool supports importation and de-duplication of citations; screening of titles, abstracts and full texts; risk of bias assessment; data…
Poster Creatively communicating our research: using comics and illustration for reflection and dissemination in health research
2019 Santiago
Shaw, Hunt, Whear, Abbott, Thompson Coon
Background: to increase engagement with research and maximize potential impact, researchers need to use different types of dissemination activities to ensure their research reaches, and is useful to, their intended audience. Researchers are increasingly being encouraged to consider approaches such…
Oral Critical Appraisal of Reviews Using Qualitative Comparative Analyses (CARU-QCA): a tool to critically appraise systematic reviews that use qualitative comparative analysis
2019 Santiago
Kneale, Sutcliffe, Thomas
Background: implementation of evidence on multi-component interventions requires detailed information about critical intervention features and contextual moderators. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) is a promising new review method that uses Boolean set theory to identify complex causal ‘…
Poster Critical appraisal abilities in the USA: an online assessment of parents and undergraduate students
2019 Santiago
Mora Ringle, Jensen-Doss
Background: consumers of health information in the USA must make treatment decisions based on a large amount of readily-available, unreliable health information. Furthermore, studies reveal that consumers often trust anecdotal information over research evidence, which is problematic because…
Poster Critical appraisal of the difficult airway clinical practice guidelines
2019 Santiago
Merchán Galvis, Caicedo Rivera, Valencia Payan, Calvache España
Background: complications of airway management represent an important cause of morbidity and mortality. They are rare, but very severe. There is a general concern for quality in the care of the difficult airway and consequently several clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are available for this…
Workshop Data extraction and analysis of data on adverse effects in systematic reviews
2019 Santiago
Junqueira, Loke, Golder, Vohra, Kwong
Background: more than one-third of systematic reviews do not appropriately address adverse events. When data on adverse events are assessed, they are frequently lumped together and reported as a general composite outcome of total adverse effects, eventually subgrouped in serious and non-serious…
Poster Data management in real-world study
2019 Santiago
Li, Han, Shen, Yang, Sun, Liu
Background: there are still many limitations in clinical trials: the are slow and costly; their external validity is limited; it is difficult for patients to participate in them. And real-world data can be used to make up these deficiencies, which promote the generation of clinical evidence. …
Oral Data reuse, machine learning, and crowdsourcing in Screen4Me: how screening burden can be reduced substantially and reliably
2019 Santiago
Thomas, Noel-Storr, McDonald, Marshall
Background: Cochrane authors sift through millions of bibliographic references to find studies for inclusion in systematic reviews. The same records are retrieved and examined by different teams, duplicating effort which, up until now, has been impossible to avoid.
For reviews where only…