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Poster The challenges of establishing and maintaining a multilingual clinical trials register
2013 Québec City
Long, Stern, Pearson
Background: One of the elective functions of a Cochrane Field is to establish and maintain a register of trials specific to the field’s specialty and to submit this register to the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. To ensure the register is comprehensive, non-English language sources…
Poster The challenges of moving evidence to practice
2013 Québec City
Holly, Salmond
Background: Despite overwhelming clinical trial evidence, increasing publication of systematic reviews, expert opinion, national guidelines, and a vast array of educational conferences, evidence-based therapies continue to be underutilized. Such underutilization leads to a gap in care, such that…
Oral The communication assessment checklist in health (CATCH):moving forward with research on the usability of health information resources
2013 Québec City
Giguere, Witteman, Francine, Grimshaw, Genova, Haynes, Légaré, Pons, Bhattacharyya, Grudniewicz, Versloot
Background: There is little guidance for developers of evidence summaries, such as guidelines and systematic reviews, on communication strategies (e.g. terminology, format, length, layout) to increase their usability. In a recent update of a Cochrane systematic review on the impact of printed…
Oral The complex and challenging role of Cochrane fields: moving Cochrane evidence into practice
2013 Québec City
Thomson, Pearson, Mahan, Wieland, Gallagher, McIlwain
Background: As the Cochrane Collaboration celebrates its 20th anniversary, this is an opportunity to reflect on the many innovative parts of its mission. The establishment of Cochrane Fields early in the Collaboration’s history was an acknowledgement of the crucial importance of moving evidence…
Poster The correlation analysis of PRISMA, AMSTAR and GRADE in systematic review
2013 Québec City
Yao, Wei, Wang, Wang, Sun, Liang, Yang, Chen
Background: The PRISMA, AMSTAR and GRADE are used to assess the quality of report, methodology and evidence in systematic reviews (SRs), but up to now there was no literature had ever studied the correlation of the quality of report, methodology and evidence in SRs.
Objectives: To assess the…
Poster The current situation of the publication of Cochrane Systematic Reviews
2013 Québec City
Ma, Sun, Zhao, Tian
Background: Cochrane Systematic Reviews (CSRs) are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Cochrane Reviews are designed to facilitate the choices that practitioners, consumers, policy-makers and others face…
Poster The development of highly sensitive retrieval strategy for cluster randomized controlled trial
2013 Québec City
Chen, Yao, Wang, Wei, Wang, Yang
Background: There has been an increasing interest in cluster randomized controlled trial (CRT) over the past 20 years. If several cluster randomization trials are performed to investigate similar interventions for the same outcome then it may be of interest to combine the results using the…
Poster The effectiveness of interventions for reducing publication bias
2013 Québec City
van Noord, Thaler, Nussbaumer, Kien, Gartlehner
Background: Publication bias occurs when the publication of research depends on the nature and direction of the results–a study’s positive, negative, or null result can influence its chances of publication. The non-publication of clinical trial results might mean that the findings are entirely…
Poster The evolution of technology for Cochrane
2013 Québec City
Thomas, Mavergames, Dooley, Elliott
Background: In celebrating twenty years of The Cochrane Collaboration, we can also celebrate 20 years of advancing technologies in evidence-based health care. Cochrane Reviews have always been electronic and have thus benefited from advances in technology to aid in their creation and dissemination…
Poster The feasibility and reliability of using restricted mean survival time in aggregate data meta-analysis of time-to-event outcomes
2013 Québec City
Wei, Royston, Tierney, Parmar
Background: Meta-analyses of time-to-event trial outcomes commonly use the hazard ratio (HR) as the treatment effect measure. For aggregate data reviews, this relies on extracting or estimating HR from published analyses. Use of the HR implicitly assumes proportional hazards (PH), which may be…
Poster The growing role and impact of Evidence Aid: its 10-year vision
2013 Québec City
Kayabu, Clarke
Background: Evidence Aid, an independent international organisation, promotes the use of systematic reviews in disasters, humanitarian crises and other health care emergencies. Since its creation by The Cochrane Collaboration after the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004, it has as grown and has…
Poster The growing trend of network meta-analyses topic appearance in medical literature
2013 Québec City
Ciapponi, Glujovsky, García Martí, Bardach, Comande
Background: Frequently, interventions for a given health problem have never been compared in head-to-head randomized controlled trials. In this context, adjusted indirect comparisons based on network meta-analyses (NMAs) could answer the question posed by most healthcare professionals: what is the…
Oral The impact of modified intention-to-treat reporting randomised trials in meta-analyses
2013 Québec City
Montedori, Schünemann, Cozzolino, Orso, Luchetta, Germani, Amici, Folletti, Menculini, De Florio, Abraha
Background: A modified intention-to-treat (mITT) analysis with multiple and inconsistent descriptions is increasingly being used in randomized clinical trials (RCTs). However, little is known about the impact of mITT reporting trials included in meta-analyses. In addition, mITT reporting RCTs are…
Oral The importance of implementation evaluation. Case study of a review on preschool feeding programmes to improve the health of disadvantaged young children
2013 Québec City
Francis, Liberato, Benkhalti Jandu, Welch, Batel, Greenhalgh, Rader, Noonan, Shea, Janzen, Wells, Petticrew
Background: 35% of deaths and another 35% of the disease burden in children under 5 years old are attributable to under nutrition. Throughout the life cycle, under nutrition contributes to increased risk of infection, lowered cognitive performance, chronic disease, and mortality. It is vital for…
Oral The influence of pharmaceutical companies on guidelines—two examples from Germany
2013 Québec City
Schott, Dünnweber, Mühlbauer, Niebling, Pachl, Ludwig
Background: Recommendations in clinical guidelines are based on study results and the opinion of experts.
Objectives: The influence of pharmaceutical companies on these two factors will be examined using two examples from Germany.
Methods: Court records have shown that the marketing…
Poster The limitation of word count in Chinese journals: a potential impediment for implementing the CONSORT statement
2013 Québec City
Zhang, Wang, Zhang, Tian
Background: Though improvement in recent years, the reporting quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is still poor in China according to the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement. Poor reporting quality may make RCTs less credible in clinical application and lower…
Oral The mixed methods appraisal tool for assessing studies with diverse designs: example from a systematic mixed studies review on the key processes and outcomes of participatory research with health organizations
2013 Québec City
Pluye, Bush, Macaulay, Loignon, Haggerty, Granikov, Repchinsky, Parry, Brown, Bartlett, Wright, Pelletier
Background: Participatory Research with Health Organizations (PRO) is conducted with organization members, blending research and action to improve organizational practice. No systematic review of the PRO literature exists. There is a need to identify evidence about benefits and pitfalls of PRO.…
Poster The potential of text mining to reduce screening workload in systematic reviews: a retrospective evaluation
2013 Québec City
Thomas, O’Mara-Eves, McNaught, Ananiadou
Background: The task of identifying relevant studies for systematic reviews in an unbiased way is increasingly time consuming. Text mining may be able to assist in the screening process in two ways: (1) by prioritising the list of items for manual screening so that the studies at the top of the…
Poster The publishing characteristics of Cochrane Reviews for health policy research
2013 Québec City
Xiu-xia, Jia-hua, Yao-long, Zong-jiu, Ke-hu
Background: With the propagation of the evidence-based health policy-making, the systematic reviews of health policy research have become increasingly popular. However, due to the complexity of the Health Policy Research, they are facing challenges.
Objectives: To describe the publishing…
Poster The publishing characteristics of Cochrane Reviews for nursing research
2013 Québec City
Zhang, Zhou, Li, Zhang, Yang
Background: Accompanied booming of the Nursing science and Evidence-Based Medicine, Concepts and methods of evidence-based nursing were given great attention by clinical practitioners and managers. However, due to the scientific and artistic characters of nursing discipline, they are facing…