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Poster Accuracy of vascular ultrasound compared to angiotomography for extracranial carotid stenosis imaging
2019 Santiago
Takihi, Kanas, Daolio, Azevedo, Cardin, Cassola, Flumignan, Marcondes, Ávila, Vasconcelos, Guedes, Prestes, Nakano, Guedes, Amorim, Baptista-Silva, Flumignan
Background: vascular ultrasound (VU) is a non-invasive test for extracranial carotid stenosis (ECS) imaging with better risk-cost benefit when compared to magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), computed tomography angiography (CTA) and digital subtraction angiography (DSA). However, VU accuracy is…
Oral Achieving evidence interoperability in the computer age: setting evidence on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
2019 Santiago
Alper, Munn, Mayer, Tristan, Salas, Iorio, Schilling
Background: efforts to support and implement evidence-based practice are limited substantially because research findings, appraisals and summarizations are not searchable and re-usable without labour-intensive manual screening and repeated data entry. Interoperability can be achieved by…
Poster Active placebo versus standard placebo control interventions in pharmacological randomised trials: a systematic review
2019 Santiago
Laursen, Paludan-Müller, Hróbjartsson
Background: placebos are used as control interventions in randomized trials to enable blinding of participants and personnel. This can help reduce the risk of bias due to, for example, observer bias, reporting bias and bias related to placebo effects. Standard placebos in pharmacological trials…
Poster Acupuncture for depression: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Xia, Liu, Barth, Wang, Yang, Hu, Wang, Tian, Huang, Liang, Sun, Lai, Yan, Zhao, Song, Fei
Background: depression is a highly prevalent mental disorder, and is the leading cause of years lived with disability counts for nearly three decades. Acupuncture is widely used in China and some other part of the world to help patients with depression.
Objectives: to evaluate effects and safety…
Poster Acupuncture in major depressive disorder: a scoping review of clinical practice guidelines
2019 Santiago
Fernandez-Chinguel, Goicochea-Lugo, Villarreal-Zegarra, Zafra-Tanaka, Taype-Rondan
Background: non-pharmacological approaches to treat depression include complementary and alternative medicine such as acupuncture. However, clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) tend to give inconsistent recommendations in this regard.
Objective: the aim of this study was to describe the…
Oral Adaptation of the European Guidelines on Breast Cancer Screening to the Tunisian setting using the GRADE-ADOLOPMENT approach
2019 Santiago
Kahale, Ouertatani, Ben Brahem, Ben Hamouda, Sar Parkinsion, Akl
Background: guidelines are the cornerstone of high-quality evidence-based practice. Guidelines could be
1) developed from scratch, (i.e. de novo);
2) adopted from one setting to another as is; or
3) adapted from one setting to another taking into consideration contextual factors.
The…
Oral Agreement in the assessment of systematic reviews with the AMSTAR 2 tool: novice versus expert methodologists
2019 Santiago
Martinez-Zapata, Niño de Guzman, Canelo, Vasquez-Mejia , Merchan-Galvis , Madera-Anaya , Viteri-Garcia , Muñoz, Zaror
Background: one of the tools to assess the quality of conducting systematic reviews is the AMSTAR2 (A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews). We studied the agreement of AMSTAR2 between novice and expert methodologists assessing the quality of systematic reviews (SRs) addressing the…
Oral An alternative method for presenting assessments of risk of bias in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies
2019 Santiago
Vali, Lee, Zafarmand , Bossuyt
Background: systematic reviews include primary studies that differ in sample sizes, with larger studies contributing more to the meta-analysis. At present, study size is not considered in 'Risk of bias' evaluations.
Objectives: to develop an alternative way to present the contribution…
Oral An efficient approach to identify eligible studies for 102 PICO (population, intervention, control, outcome) questions
2019 Santiago
Yaacoub, Khamis, Kahale, Durán, Rodríguez, Turner, Rada, Akl
Background: developing trustworthy practice guidelines requires the use of systematic approaches to identify relevant evidence. Some guideline projects address a large number of PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcome) questions. This requires the use of efficient approaches for…
Workshop An introduction to rapid reviews: developing timely evidence summaries for decision makers (a Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group (RRMG) workshop)
2019 Santiago
Stevens, Garritty, Nussbaumer-Streit, Gartlehner, King, Kamel
Background: rapid reviews are increasingly used as a research synthesis tool to support timely evidence-informed decision making. However, the methodology used to develop rapid reviews is still emerging.
Objectives: this introductory workshop aims to:
1) introduce the concept of rapid reviews…
Poster An overview of evidence-based clinical studies on fasting therapy
2019 Santiago
Lu, Jin, Qiao, Tian, Liu, Bu, Li, Robinson, Liu
Background: obesity and metabolic syndrome have become a public problem recently. People are looking for a more effective, more convenient and safer dietary approach to calorie restriction and weight loss. Fasting therapy refers to calorie and diet restriction for different diseases/conditions, and…
Oral An overview of systematic reviews on mental healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers
2019 Santiago
Uphoff, Purgato, Barbui, Churchill
Background: the Cochrane Global Mental Health network aims to support the production, dissemination, and implementation of systematic reviews relevant to mental health in low- and middle-income countries. As part of this work, we are synthesizing evidence from reviews on the effectiveness of mental…
Poster Analysis of research designs to support nursing or medical care
2019 Santiago
Kappes, Pacheo
Background: there is too much information available related to medical research. It is highly necessary to teach undergraduates, postgraduates, and nursing and medical students 'how to build' a correct medical question starting from patients, and also how to elaborate research questions…
Poster Analysis of the graphic report of results of randomized clinical trials in manual therapy: a methodological review
2019 Santiago
Núñez-Cortés, Pérez-Bracchiglione, Álvarez, Urrútia
Background: the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in manual therapy (MT) has increased exponentially, and graphs are a usual way of summarizing the results. However, the quality of this kind of report has not been assessed yet.
Objectives: to assess the quantity and quality of graphs…
Poster Analysis of the report of the information necessary for the interpretation of the results in randomized clinical trials in manual therapy
2019 Santiago
Núñez-Cortés, Álvarez, Pérez-Bracchiglione, Urrútia
Background: the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in manual therapy (MT) has increased exponentially. However, the quality of the reports remains heterogeneous.
Objectives: to describe the reports of the information necessary for the interpretation of the results in RCTs in MT and to…
Oral Answering the call: responsive evidence generation for guideline developers
2019 Santiago
Hine, Murray, Johnson, Walshe, Wilson, Jullien, Garner
Background: Cochrane promotes evidence-based decision making, and as such aims to support guideline development internationally. Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group (CIDG) aims to impact policy in tropical diseases in a diverse range of resource-limited settings. Our funding is contingent on…
Poster Application of Case Report (CARE) guidelines in nursing Science Citation Index (SCI-index) journals
2019 Santiago
Yang, Gao, Cai, Wang, Shang, Tian
Background: as a significantly important part of clinical practice, nursing should be advanced in the professionalization process in many ways. Case reports are regarded as lower grade in the hierarchy of evidence, but one of the principles of evidence-based medicine is that decision making should…
Oral Applying the Evidence Ecosystem concept as a tool to demonstrate the successful implementation of evidence-based practice in international aid: the example of ‘Water, Sanitation and Hygiene’ (WASH)
2019 Santiago
Van Remoortel, De Buck, Schelstraete, Lievens, Vandekerckhove
Background: the Belgian Red Cross (BRC) is an aid organization with a wide range of activities, from blood collection and banking, to first-aid education, to international disaster and development aid. Evidence-based decision-making is embedded in the long-term strategic vision of BRC for all its…
Poster Are awaiting classification studies properly managed by Cochrane Reviews?
2019 Santiago
Martimbianco, Pacheco, Latorraca, Ferreira, Riera
Background: studies 'awaiting classification' are potentially eligible studies that cannot be assessed for inclusion or exclusion in a systematic review (SR) due to insufficient information. However, these studies may have an impact on the review’s conclusion, and Cochrane authors should…
Oral Are conference abstracts of systematic reviews reliable and well-reported? A case study of five consecutive World Congresses of Pain
2019 Santiago
Saric, Dosenovic, Saldanha, Jelicic Kadic, Puljak
Background: results of systematic reviews (SRs) are often presented at conferences. Examinations of conference abstracts of primary studies have repeatedly shown that information presented in abstracts is often not well reported and/or not dependable. These issues have not been examined as much in…