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Poster Attitudes towards evidence based medicine among medical students of Universidad Nacional del Sur Medical School of Argentina

2013 Québec City
Garcia Dieguez, del Valle, Jouglard, Gazzoni, Camila, Sosa Ridolfi, Lauronce, Durante
Background: It was proved that devolvement of competence in critical appraisal is more effective if it stars during undergraduate education. Most of developed instruments to assess knowledge are oriented to graduate professionals. Knowing students attitudes is important to plan strategies to…

Poster Awareness and use of the Cochrane Library in internal medicine

2013 Québec City
Letelier, Rivera, Díaz, Ewolt, Acuña
Background: Systematic Reviews (SR) are a fundamental tool for practicing Evidence Based Medicine. Since 1993 the Cochrane Collaboration’s mission is to produce SRs. However, awareness and use of Cochrane SR, varies in different countries and specialties. Objectives: To describe the level of…

Poster Barriers and facilitators in the implementation of interventions to prevent publication bias

2013 Québec City
Nussbaumer, Kien, van Noord, Thaler, Griebler, Gartlehner
Background: Non-publication of clinical trial results may decisively reduce the benefit of systematic reviews. Because the results from the research that is available differ from the results of all the research that has been completed in an area, this may lead to wrong conclusions about benefits…

Oral Barriers and facilitators to completing a Cochrane Review: a survey of authors in the African region

2013 Québec City
Oliver, Kredo, Zani
Background: Cochrane Centres provide support and training to authors to complete and update their Reviews. Despite this, many authors face challenges, resulting in stalled reviews. In order for the South African Cochrane Centre (SACC) to respond appropriately, an assessment of support activities…

Poster Barriers to knowledge translation in Chinese doctors: a cross-sectional survey

2013 Québec City
Huang, Li, Chen, Wang
Background: Knowledge translation is very important for evidence-based practice. Little is known about the factors influencing knowledge translation in China. Objectives: To explore barriers that influence knowledge translation in China. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey using…

Poster Better values clarification methods for better decisions

2013 Québec City
Scherer, Angott, Ubel, Dickson, Holtzman, Exe
Background: Shared decision making requires that decisions be grounded in patients’ values and preferences. However, people frequently express preferences and make choices that are at odds with their stated values. This suggests that, for shared decision making to reach its full potential, better…

Poster Brain metastasis management: difficulties with integrating Cochrane Review evidence into guidelines

2013 Québec City
Grant, Quinn, Jess
Background: Treatment options for brain metastasis include surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) orwhole brain radiation therapy (WBRT). Multiple randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have been performed comparing various combinations of these therapies. Objectives: To determine if advances in…

Poster Brazilian Cochrane Center strategies for disseminating the Cochrane methodology for systematic reviews

2013 Québec City
Martimbianco, Costa, Porfírio, Silva, Grande, Torres, Carvalho, Fioretti, Torloni, Riera, Atallah
Background: The systematic review (SR) is an essential study for taking clinical decision and has attracted a great deal of people interested in having a better knowledge of it. Cochrane Collaboration makes available extensive support material for conducting such study, but in English only. In…

Poster Brazil’s growing production of scientific review articles

2013 Québec City
Guimaraes, Almeida
Background: Publications are vital for the advancement of science because they disseminate new findings and stimulate interaction between researchers. In the last decades, the Brazilian government has financed initiatives to promote the country’s scientific production and its international…

Oral Bridging the gap between science and policy at the agri-food and public health interface through a knowledge synthesis, transfer and exchange handbook

2013 Québec City
Young, Rajic
Background: Several knowledge synthesis, transfer and exchange (KSTE) resources, guidelines and toolkits have been developed, primarily in the context of the healthcare, health services, and broader public health sectors. However, there is currently no guidance about how to conduct these methods in…

Poster Building Capacity of Indian Scientists in Conduct of Systematic Reviews: an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Initiative

2013 Québec City
Sinha, Thavraj, Shah, Sazawal, David, Tharyan, Roy
Background: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, initiated a program to facilitate the practice of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) at the national level. Objectives: To harness the…

Poster Building a database of validated pediatric outcomes: an investigation of compliance with established reporting standards

2013 Québec City
Adams, Bhaloo, Hartling, Vohra
Background: Pediatric populations have increasingly been included in clinical research, which relies on the availability and use of appropriate outcome measurement tools. Objectives: (i) To develop an inventory of valid and reliable pediatric outcome measurement tools and (ii) to identify gaps…

Poster CRISP: online summaries of Cochrane Reviews for policy

2013 Québec City
Turner, Brennan, Cossens, McDonald
Background: Systematic reviews are a key source of research to guide health policy, however, relevant reviews can be difficult for policy-makers to identify and are often challenging to apply in practice. CRISP (Cochrane Reviews Identified and Summarised for Policy) provides web-based summaries of…

Poster Café Scientifique—public outreach

2013 Québec City
Tarbett
Background: The ‘Café Scientifique’ funding program is an innovative initiative funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The goal of a Café Scientific is to bring together researchers with members of the public to spark a discussion about some of the most interesting research…

Poster Calculating confidence intervals for the absolute risk reduction taking uncertainties of relative risk and baseline risk estimates into account

2013 Québec City
Bender, Newcombe
Background: In Cochrane Reviews as well as in the GRADE system absolute estimates of treatment effect are frequently calculated by using relative risk (RR) estimates based on a meta-analysis in combination with an independent baseline risk (BR) estimate. Spencer et al. (BMJ 2012;345:e7401) pointed…

Workshop Calculation and interpretation of the number needed to treat (NNT)

2013 Québec City
Bender
Objectives: To provide review authors with the knowledge and skills needed to calculate NNTs from trial reports and Summary of Findings (SoF) tables of Cochrane Reviews; to verify whether reported NNTs are adequate and to interpret the results. Description: The number needed to treat (…

Oral Canadian Cochrane Centre Partners Forum: strengthening partnerships to increase evidence-based decision-making

2013 Québec City
Vilis, McGovern, McNair, Schaafsma, Tarbett, Ueffing, Grimshaw
Background: Cochrane Centres promote The Cochrane Collaboration and act as a central contact point. Centres develop and maintain relationships with partner organizations to promote awareness, access and use of Cochrane Reviews. The Canadian Cochrane Centre (CCC) hosted a 1-day Partners Forum with…

Oral Categorising continuous risk factors: issues and implications

2013 Québec City
Abdallah
Background: Grouping continuous variables into two or more categories for the purposes of simplicity and ease of analysis and interpretation is a widely used approach in medical and epidemiologic research. Categorisation, however, has been found to lead to loss of power and efficiency, to affect…

Poster Challenges in SDM education: the heterogeneity of SDM training programs and the search for consensus on core competencies

2013 Québec City
Légaré, Drolet, Stacey, Moumjid-Ferdjaoui, Härter
Background: One obstacle to integrating shared decision making (SDM) into routine clinical practice is the lack of standardized training for healthcare professionals. No international consensus exists about core competencies required to involve patients in medical decision making. We present an…

Poster Challenges in conducting a systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy of genetic test: an example of the genetic diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia

2013 Québec City
Sharma, Mowatt, Boachie, Stewart, Miedzybrodzka, Simpson, Boyers, Kilonzo, McNamee
Background: The availability and uptake of genetic tests is increasing. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence commissioned a review on rapid genetic tests for the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Objectives: To explore methodological challenges of undertaking…