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Oral Why should we translate Cochrane Reviews into French?

2013 Québec City
Mbuagbaw, Ongolo-Zogo
Background: The efforts of the Cochrane Collaboration to produce up-to-date high quality health evidence are undermined by language barriers. People in many regions of the world where disease and poverty are rife do not speak English and therefore are unable to benefit from many Cochrane products.…

Oral Wikipedia meets Cochrane: working to get better evidence into mass use

2013 Québec City
Bastian, Heilman, Tharyan
There are several million visits to medical-related Wikipedia pages every day. Surveys suggest that most doctors and medical students (over 90% in one study) rely on the Wikipedia for medical information. As Wikipedia expands in more languages, its critical importance as a source of free…

Poster Wikis and collaborative writing applications in healthcare: results of a scoping review

2013 Québec City
Archambault, van de Belt, Grajales, Faber, Kuziemsky, Gagnon, Bilodeau, Rioux, Fournier, Nadeau, Emond, Aubin, Gold, Gagnon, Turgeon, Heldoorn, Poitras, Kremer, Eysenbach, Légaré
Background: The rapid rise in the use of collaborative writing applications (CWAs) (eg, wikis, Google Documents, and Google Knol) has created the need for a systematic synthesis of the evidence of their impact as knowledge translation tools in healthcare. Objectives: To explore the depth and…

Oral Workforce training in evidence-informed decision making

2013 Québec City
Waters, Armstrong, Pettman, Doyle, Burford
Background: Whilst public health practitioners and policymakers ideally should be using evidence to inform their decision-making, a range of barriers exist in practice, including time to access evidence, skills, and organisational culture. The Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) has instigated a…

Poster Working with knowledge users to improve evidence-based medicine prescribing and use: key informant interviews and the process of developing an international training collaboration

2013 Québec City
Helis, Colquhoun, Mayhew, Lowe, Taylor, Hill, Belanger, Worswick, Grimshaw
Background: Health systems globally are interested in promoting appropriate prescribing by health care providers and use of medicines by consumers. Currently, interventions that improve prescribing are underutilized and related evidence is not readily accessible. Rx for Change is a publicly…

Workshop Workshop for Managing Editors and Assistant Managing Editors (restricted)

2013 Québec City
Shah, Dearness, Ruotsalainen
Objectives: The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for CRG MEs and AMEs to informally discuss editorial processes and operational issues. Description: The first part of the workshop will follow the format of a ‘‘Trivial pursuit’’ game and will have participants competing to…

Poster Would a timely analysis of secondary outcomes have led to an earlier identification of effective stroke rehabilitation interventions?

2013 Québec City
Langhorne
Background: Randomised trials often use secondary (or surrogate) outcomes that are believed to anticipate changes in primary outcomes. Many surrogate outcomes are used in rehabilitation research in the belief that recovery patterns are predictable and improved secondary outcomes will herald…

Workshop Writing Complex Search Strategies ***PARTICIPANTS: Please bring your laptops to this session

2013 Québec City
Noel-Storr, Fiander
Objectives: To present and discuss practical approaches to developing and optimising complex search strategies for health care interventions. Description: This session is directed at professional searchers—Information Scientists/Specialists, Trials Search Co-ordinators, Librarians, who…

Poster ‘Discussion sections’: are we ignoring valuable insights into intervention effectiveness?

2013 Québec City
Campbell, Blank, Messina, Day, Buckley-Woods, Nick, Elizabeth
Background: Synthesizing the evidence for the effectiveness of complex interventions requires an understanding of contextual factors that influence; why, when, for whom and in what circumstances interventions may or may not work. Various methodological developments are evolving to enable a greater…

Poster A Description of the high quality evidences for health policy research in China: evidence-based health policy research

2012 Auckland
Li, Xiao, Zhang, Sun, Chen, Yang, Zhang
Background: A great many health policy research evidences have being produced in China, and vary widely in quality. Objectives: To explore the high quality evidences of Chinese health policy research including SR (Systematic Review) and RCT (randomized controlled trial). Methods: Four…

Poster A comparison of statistical methods for identifying out-ofdate systematic reviews

2012 Auckland
Pattanittum, Laopaiboon, Moher, Lumbiganon, Ngamjarus
Background: Systematic reviews (SRs) can provide accurate and reliable evidence, typically about the effectiveness of health interventions. Evidence is dynamic, and if SRs are out-of-date this information may not be useful; it may even be harmful. Objectives: To compare five statistical methods…

Oral A framework for developing and implementing clinical prediction models across multiple studies

2012 Auckland
Debray, Moons, Ahmed, Koffijberg, Riley
Background: The availability of participant-level data from multiple sources is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in prediction research. However, the corresponding populations typically differ in important aspects, such as baseline risk. This has driven the adoption of meta-analytical…

Poster A framework for evaluating and distinguishing validity and generalization of prediction models

2012 Auckland
Debray, Koffijberg, Vergouwe, Nieboer, Steyerberg, Moons
Background: It is widely acknowledged that newly developed diagnostic or prognostic prediction models should be validated in samples with different (i.e. not included in the sample from which the model was developed) but related (i.e. similar characteristics or case mix) individuals. However,…

Poster A health technology assessment of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)—evaluation the methods of effectiveness and safety

2012 Auckland
Chen, Li, Yan, Zhong, Li
Background: TAVI is usually performed using transvascular approach through transfemoral approach (TFA) or transsubclavian approach (TSA), or through transapical approach (TAA). There are, however, no systematic data concerning the comparison between the methods of TAVI. Objectives: We performed…

Poster A new approach to deal with the absence of clinical trials in systematic reviews: a meta-analysis of case series studies

2012 Auckland
El Dib, Touma, Kapoor
Background: Evidence-based medicine is defined as the link between good scientific research and clinical practice and it uses existing and available scientific evidence, with good internal and external validity, to apply its results in clinical practice. Systematic reviews are criticized for…

Poster A numbers of randomized controlled trials reported in Japanese literature database are not covered in Medline

2012 Auckland
Nango, Naito, Toyoshima, Yuasa, Okada, Yamazaki
Background: Language restriction can be a problem for collecting the relevant research data when we conduct systematic reviews. Some Japanese written journals are covered in Medline or other international Medical literature database, but some are covered by Japanese database only. Data from…

Oral A randomised trial of training student clinicians in how to facilitate shared decision making and communicate evidence: the ignored step in evidence-based practice?

2012 Auckland
Hoffmann, Del Mar, Bennett, Claire
Background: Successful evidence-based practice requires clinicians to practice patient-centred care. Central to this is shared decision making (SDM); of which, a key skill is communicating statistical information clearly to patients. Most clinicians do this poorly, if at all. One reason is lack of…

Poster A rapid review process for evidence aid (to produce a Cochrane systematic review): electric fans for reducing adverse health impacts in heatwaves

2012 Auckland
Allen, Gupta, Murray, Clarke, Carmichael, Simpson, Chan, Gao
Background: This rapid Cochrane review (7 months from inception to publication of review) was undertaken to determine whether the use of electric fans has a harmful or protective effect on the general population in naturally occurring heatwaves. It was done rapidly with the aim to inform the 2012…

Oral A robust statistical modelling framework for random effects meta-analysis

2012 Auckland
Beyene, Liu, Hamid
Background: In meta-analysis, heterogeneity is the norm rather than the exception. The most common modelling approach to dealing with heterogeneity is to adopt random effects models where random effects are typically assumed to have normal distributions. However, outliers often occur that may…

Poster A study of knowledge and attitudes toward evidence based medicine (EBM) among medical students and interns of the AMA International University Bahrain College of Medicine

2012 Auckland
Beleno, Manansala, Fedorowicz, Pandis
Background: The College of Medicine at AMA International University of Bahrain has a key role in training medical professionals to the highest internationally accepted standards. In keeping with these standards its teaching faculty recognises the importance of ensuring that its graduates are…