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Oral Scaling up/boosting the production of scientific evidence in low and middle income countries
2013 Québec City
Coren, Cuervo, Ciapponi, Nair, Kredo, Waters
The challenges facing all countries are significant; however the challenges facing LMICs in terms of the economic, social and political contexts, funding drivers for evidence production and decision making, access to less than optimal evidence information systems, and the chasm between available…
Poster Scoping reviews: a valuable first step in knowledge synthesis
2013 Québec City
Hartling, Hamm, Milne
Background: Scoping reviews identify, collect and summarize knowledge in broad topics. We conducted a scoping review on the use of social media in healthcare to identify the extent and nature of available evidence.
Objectives: To present the information we gained from the review and discuss its…
Poster Screening for decisional conflict in clinical practice: validation of SURE
2013 Québec City
Ferron Parayre, Labrecque, Rousseau, Turcotte, Légaré
Background: Assessing decisional conflict in patients is a shared decision making competency.
Objectives: We sought to determine the psychometric properties of SURE, a four-item checklist designed to detect for clinically significant decisional conflict (CSDC) in clinical practice.
Methods…
Poster Search filter accuracy to LILACS (via iAHx 2.6-5 interface) for retrieving Randomized Controlled Trials by Brazilian Cochrane Centre
2013 Québec City
Puga, Silva, Soares, Atallah
Background: The translation and validation of a clinical trial filter for identifying studies scientifically correct and clinically relevant in the bibliographic index LILACS is critical to use in the systematic reviews.
Objective: To assess the accuracy of the new translation of the search…
Poster Search filter for retrieving overviews of systematic reviews in The Cochrane Library
2013 Québec City
Silva, Puga, Grande, Porfírio, Martimbianco, Torres, Costa, Carvalho, Fioretti, Costa, Peccin, Riera, Torloni, Atallah
Background: Overviews of systematic reviews (OoRs), a new type of study, are considered as the ‘friendly front end’ to The Cochrane Library for healthcare decision-making. The Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases, one of which is the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) that…
Poster Search methods for diagnostic test accuracy reviews in dementia: an overview of a programme grant
2013 Québec City
Noel-Storr
Background: In 2010 the Cochrane dementia and cognitive improvement group began work on a series of diagnostic test accuracy systematic reviews as part of a programme grant.
Objectives: Three years on, and 200 000 citations screened later, this poster aims to consider the effectiveness of the…
Workshop Search strategies and data sources for adverse effects reviews
2013 Québec City
Golder, Zorzela
Objective:
To give guidance for review authors on the available data sources on adverse effects, and how to retrieve data for incorporation into a systematic review. This will include the development of optimal search techniques and discussion of the diverse formats of adverse effects data…
Oral Searching a database of knowledge translation resources for public health: The Registry of Methods and Tools
2013 Québec City
Dobbins
Background: Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT), the Registry of Methods and Tools is a searchable, online database of knowledge translation (KT) resources for public health. The Registry of Methods and Tools contains summary statements of KT resources, in…
Oral Searching a database of knowledge translation resources for public health: The Registry of Methods and Tools
2013 Québec City
Dobbins
Background: Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT), the Registry of Methods and Tools is a searchable, online database of knowledge translation (KT) resources for public health. The Registry of Methods and Tools contains summary statements of KT resources, in…
Workshop Searching and tracking in the Cochrane Register of Studies (restricted) ***In computer lab; no need for personal laptops
2013 Québec City
Foxlee, Dooley, Littlewood, Noel-Storr, Salzwedel
Objectives:
To give participants practical experience of the searching and tracking features in the Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS).
Description:
The Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS) is the mandatory mechanism for submitting records to the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled…
Oral Searching for black swans: critically assessing surrogate markers in Cochrane Reviews
2013 Québec City
Tejani, Wright, Musini, Bassett, Perry, Mintzes, Jauca, Hinch
Background: The US Food and Drug Administration defines a surrogate as ‘a laboratory measurement or physical sign that is used in therapeutic trials as a substitute for a clinically meaningful end point that is a direct measure of how a patient feels, functions, or survives. Surrogate markers are…
Poster Searching for indirect evidence: advantages and challenges of extending the network of studies
2013 Québec City
Sutton, Abrams
Background: Methodological guidelines for conducting network meta-analysis (NMA) suggest that an iterative search of the literature, progressively including additional comparator treatments, may improve the identification of indirect evidence to be included for analysis (Hoaglin 2011).…
Workshop Searching for studies for inclusion in Cochrane Reviews
2013 Québec City
Lefebvre, Glanville, Cumpston
Objectives:
The aim of this workshop is to provide Cochrane Review authors with guidance on searching for studies for inclusion in a Cochrane Review. Questions to be considered will include: where to search for studies; how to search efficiently and what to do with the search results.…
Poster Searching for unpublished data for Cochrane Reviews: cross-sectional study
2013 Québec City
Schroll, Bero, Gøtzsche
Background: Failure to include unpublished data in meta-analyses will generally lead to too positive results. New sources of unpublished data have become available in recent years but it is unknown to what extent such data are being used.
Objectives: To describe the experiences that Cochrane…
Workshop Searching trials registers to identify studies for Cochrane Reviews (restricted) ***in computer lab; no need for personal laptops
2013 Québec City
Glanville, Lefebvre
Objectives:
Searching trials registers to identify studies for Cochrane Reviews is advocated in the Cochrane Handbook (Chapter 6—Searching for Studies). With the introduction of the ‘Methodological standards for the conduct of new Cochrane Intervention Reviews’ (MECIR) under the Methodological…
Poster Selective reporting: a proxy or a more direct indicator of our confidence in the summary estimates?
2013 Québec City
Rutjes
Background: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions advises to judge the risk of bias potentially introduced by selective reporting of outcome data on the trial level. From a ‘Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation’ (GRADE) perspective, a judgment on…
Poster Shaping HTA to meet new regulatory and pricing evidence requirements in the UK
2013 Québec City
Sutton, Abrams
Background: As regulators are turning to early and conditional licensing of new pharmaceuticals to mitigate market access delays; payers such as the Department of Health in the UK are simultaneously considering value-based pricing (VBP) as a new scheme to efficiently allocate scare funds to…
Oral Shared decision making does not influence physicians against clinical practice guidelines
2013 Québec City
Guerrier, Légaré, Labrecque, Rivest
Background: While shared decision making (SDM) and adherence to clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are important, some believe they are incompatible.
Objectives: This study explored the mutual influence between physicians’ intention to engage in SDM and their intention to follow CPGs.…
Workshop Sharing evidence through Twitter
2013 Québec City
Chapman, Millward
Objectives:
To enable participants to share evidence, engaging with different audiences, for maximum effect and impact, through Twitter.
Description:
We are now engaging with consumers, health professionals and voluntary organisations every day, disseminating and discussing Cochrane…
Oral Sharing evidence with clinicians in ethically sound environment
2013 Québec City
Tejani, Adlparvar, Jauca
Background: Continuing education activities for clinicians are often not based on best evidence and rely heavily on pharmaceutical industry support which is problematic. The Therapeutics Initiative (TI) and the Hypertension Review Group (HRG) have developed a strategy to overcome these issues.…