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Poster Restricting abstracts of Cochrane Reviews: a pragmatic solution
2016 Seoul
Posadzki, Car
Background: By definition, an abstract is a brief summary of a review of a particular subject and is often used to help the reader quickly ascertain the paper's purpose. Currently, there are 16 attributes (both essential or desirable) recommended by Methodological Expectations of Cochrane…
Oral Rethinking the assessment of risk of bias due to selective reporting: a cross-sectional study
2016 Seoul
Page, Higgins
Background: Selective reporting is included as a core domain of Cochrane’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials. There has been no evaluation of review authors’ use of this domain.
Objective: We aimed to evaluate assessments of selective reporting in a cross-section of Cochrane…
Poster Rethinking the content of questionnaires when assessing barriers to guideline implementation: a scoping review
2016 Seoul
Willson, Vernooij, Gagliardi
Background: It is important to tailor guideline implementation by first assessing potential barriers. Questionnaires are one tool for assessing barriers. Physicians are often the target of questionnaires and we lack knowledge of the types of questionnaires used for this purpose.
Objectives: To…
Oral Retrospective case study to test performance of machine learning: results from Cochrane Heart
2016 Seoul
Martin, Thomas, Casas, Huffman, Jonnalagadda
Background: Screening search results to identify eligible studies for inclusion in systematic reviews is time consuming. Machine learning aims to reduce the workload of screening, but data evaluating the performance are limited.
Project outline: We are therefore conducting a retrospective case…
Workshop RevMan 5 for new and prospective Cochrane authors: learn how to use the software
2016 Seoul
Oliver, Kredo, Pienaar
Objectives: To explain the Review Manager (RevMan) software and highlight some of the new features in RevMan 5. In addition, to provide an opportunity for participants to get hands-on experience of using the software.
Description: RevMan is Cochrane’s software for preparing and maintaining…
Poster Reviewing the quantity and quality of evidence available to inform NICE diagnostic guidance. Initial results focusing on end-to-end studies and the implications for Cochrane Reviews
2016 Seoul
Hyde, Byron, Nixon, Albrow, Walker, Deakin
Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced guidance on medical diagnostic technologies since 2011. This has resulted in 22 pieces of guidance on wide-ranging topics. As part of the process of reviewing its methods, the pieces of guidance and the…
Poster Risk assessment of isoflavones in food supplements: a graphical approach to qualitative synthesis
2016 Seoul
Smeraldi, Gundert-Remy, Pirow, Aiassa, Barizzone, Roncancio Pena
Background and objectives: In 2015 the Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food (ANS Panel) of the European Safety Authority (EFSA) completed an assessment on the potential harmful effect of isoflavones from soy, red clover and kudzu root contained in food supplements targeted at…
Oral Routine piloting in systematic reviews to improve usability: a case study
2016 Seoul
Long, Abraham
Background: In 2014, Linda Long proposed a method for the routine piloting of a systematic review through to evidence synthesis stage using data from a sample of included papers in order to improve efficiency and validity of the full review.
Objectives: This paper describes and evaluates the…
Oral Russian translations of Cochrane Plain language summaries: quality assurance with continued feedback from an online survey
2016 Seoul
Ziganshina, Yudina, Gabdrakhmanov
Background: The Russian translation project started in May 2014 with a team of volunteers from Kazan Federal University, initially affiliated to the Nordic Cochrane Centre, and now part of Cochrane Russia (since August 2015). In March 2015 we conducted a survey to assess translation quality, and…
Workshop SHARE-IT: rapid production of online decision aids linked to guidelines for point-of-care shared-decision making
2016 Seoul
Vandvik, Fog-Heen, Agoritsas
Objectives: To:
1. identify determinants of weak recommendations and learn how they often require collaborative deliberation between patients and clinicians;
2. understand ingredients of GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) evidence summaries and how they…
Poster STARD for registration: establishing guidance on where and how to register diagnostic accuracy studies prospectively
2016 Seoul
Korevaar, Cohen, Askie, Faure, Gatsonis, Hunter, Kressel, McInnes, Moher, Rifai, Hooft, Bossuyt
Background: The advantages of prospective registration are multiple, and include the identification of unpublished studies. Many diagnostic accuracy studies remain unpublished, but so far these studies are rarely registered. This could be caused by the existing guidance for registering trials,…
Oral SWIFT-Active Screener: reducing literature screening effort through machine learning for systematic reviews
2016 Seoul
Miller, Howard, Phillips, Shah, Mav, Thayer, Shah
Background: Researchers within government, industry and non-profit research organizations increasingly employ systematic reviews to analyze and integrate the evidence available in peer-reviewed publications. A critical and time-consuming step in this process is screening the available literature to…
Poster Safety of Chinese herbal medicine for stroke: a proposal for developing the framework of an evidence-based education program for clinicians
2016 Seoul
Ni, Zhou, Guo, Cai
Background: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is widely used to assist conventional medication and rehabilitation for patients with stroke, particularly in hospitals for Chinese medicine, in China. Literature review suggests overuse and inappropriate use of herbal products for stroke. However, the risk…
Poster Searching KoreaMed: increasing the discoverability of trials conducted and published in Korea
2016 Seoul
Kim, McDonald
Background: KoreaMed provides access to over 235,000 articles published in around 230 Korean journals. It is estimated that fewer than 10% of these journals are indexed in MEDLINE. Although KoreaMed is an open access database, it is only recently that digital object identifiers (DOIs) and links to…
Workshop Searching for studies for inclusion in Cochrane reviews: an introduction
2016 Seoul
Lefebvre, Coles
Objectives: To provide Cochrane review authors with guidance on searching for studies for inclusion in a Cochrane Review.
Description: Questions to be considered will include: where to search for studies; how to search efficiently and what to do with the search results. This session is…
Oral Searching trials registries first: a fast method for finding published studies
2016 Seoul
Clark, Glasziou
Background: For systematic reviews (SR) searching clinical trials registries is now recommended and becoming commonplace. Although this is a step in the right direction for ensuring as many sources of information are found for the conclusions drawn by the SR, there still seems to be little done…
Oral Semi-automating citation screening: a retrospective assessment of a hybrid machine learning/crowdsourced approach using one year’s worth of human-generated data from the Embase crowdsourcing project
2016 Seoul
Wallace, Thomas, Cohen, Smalheiser, Dooley, Foxlee, Noel-Storr
Background: Previous work has already shown feasibility with regard to machine learning applications successfully classifying citations into prespecified categories, and has demonstrated reductions in human citation screening by 40% to 50%.
Objectives: We assessed the potential role of a machine…
Poster Sensitivity and precision of ‘practice guideline[pt]’ in PubMed
2016 Seoul
Chang, Luo, Wan, Wang, Wang, Li, Wei, Chen
Background: Practice guidelines are increasing year by year and those published in journals are indexed as the MeSH term ‘practice guideline’ by PubMed. Then people can search the guidelines using MeSH term ‘practice guideline[pt]’. Theoretically, the sensitivity and precision of ‘practice…
Workshop Shaping systematic reviews to meet users' interests: getting started
2016 Seoul
Oliver, Bangpan, Ryan, Dickson
Objectives: To explore ways of shaping systematic review questions and conceptual frameworks to address interests in complex issues
Description: When questions for systematic reviews are posed by potential users, they raise three challenges for getting started:
1. scoping important gaps and…
Poster Shared decision making and decision aids in MEDLINE
2016 Seoul
Ciapponi, Glujovsky, Bardach, Comande
Background: Shared decision-making (SDM) is an approach in which clinicians and patients communicate together using the best available evidence to make decisions. Decision aids (DA) are tools designed to facilitate SDM in healthcare decisions.
Objectives: To evaluate the frequency and categories…