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Poster 40 Years of randomised trials in the New Zealand Medical Journal
1996 Adelaide
Neal, Rodgers, Mackie, MacMahon
Introduction: It is well recognised that a register of randomised trials would be incomplete if it relied solely on trials identified by current electronic searching methods.
Objective: To identify all randomised trials published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, to document the basic…
Poster A domain independent structured trial register
1996 Adelaide
Strang, Boissel
Introduction: The Cochrane collaborative review groups (CRG's) build local specialised registers. The Cochrane collaboration also maintains a global bibliographic register that feeds into Medline. Since the early 80's clinical trialists have lobbied for prospective clinical trial…
Poster A systematic review and meta-analysis of psychological and pharmacological treatments for depression
1996 Adelaide
Churchill, Wessely, Lewis
Introduction: Depression affects about 20-30% of the population in the UK. About 90% of cases are managed in primary care using both physical and psychological treatments. Although the first line treatment for depression is still primarily the prescription of tricyclic antidepressants,…
Poster A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening
1996 Adelaide
Moss, Weller, Shipp
Introduction: Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem in Australia, being second only to lung cancer as a cause of death. For most of this century there has been a consistently upward trend in age-standardized mortality rates for colorectal cancer in Australian men and women. Mass…
Poster A trend analysis and search strategies for the identification of meta-analyses in MEDLINE
1996 Adelaide
Wolf, Lefebvre, McGaghie
Objective: TO estimate
1) the growth of meta-analysis as an analytic tool for reviewing health care research findings
2) the unique and combined contributions of key word and free-text retrieval to identify a sensitive strategy for retrieving meta-analyses in the medical literature.
Methods: Meta…
Poster Adding value to hand searching
1996 Adelaide
Lodge, Gill
Introduction: Electronic databases provide unreliable access to identifying randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Hand searching journals remains a costly necessity. We can add to the value of hand searching by conducting epidemiological studies of the trials we find. We report a study, assessing…
Poster Calcium antagonists in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH): a meta-analysis
1996 Adelaide
Feigin, Rinkel, Algra, Vermeulen, van Gijn
Introduction: It has been reported that calcium antagonist drugs reduce the frequency of delayed cerebral ischaemia (DCI) and improve outcome after aneurysmal SAH, but definitive evidence is lacking.
Objective: To determine whether calcium antagonists improve outcome and reduce the incidence of…
Poster Can systematic reviewing be adapted for hypothesis testing in medicine and biology?
1996 Adelaide
Miller
Introduction: Reviewing procedures inspired by Cochrane improve evaluation of treatment procedures by accessing all relevant RCTs, specifying search procedures and data used, with subjective judgements minimized by crosschecking between reviewers. The weaknesses of conventional approaches to…
Poster Collaboration to identify controlled trials in general health care journals in Europe
1996 Adelaide
McDonald, Lefebvre
Introduction: As part of the European Union BIOMED Programme, six partners (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and UK) are collaborating in a Project, co-ordinated by the UK Cochrane Centre, to identify reports of controlled trials, by handsearching European general health care journals.…
Poster Consumer information on prostate cancer screening
1996 Adelaide
Reading, Borland, Clarke, Hill, Giles
Introduction: The rate of screening for prostate cancer has been rising significantly in recent years. There is a great deal of ignorance. misunderstanding, confusion and conflicting claims In relation to prostate cancer, but the magnitude of problems in the community arising from this confusion…
Poster Consumer participation in resource allocation decisions: a systematic review
1996 Adelaide
Newby, Henry, O'Connell, Hill, O'Connell, Cockburn, Higginbotham
Introduction: It is argued that by virtue of their financial contributions, the public has a right to be involved in decisions regarding resource allocation in health. As the allocation of resources with fiscal constraints becomes more difficult, decision makers are increasingly faced with…
Poster Delphi's twin: a method to improve the quality of standards in medicine
1996 Adelaide
Porzsolt, Gauz
Introduction: Despite of general availability of the scientific information, the treatment standards differ sometimes considerably among major centers. These differences in standards can be explained either by differences in the selection of published results or in the interpretation of published…
Poster Development of a cardiac outcomes register in the West Moreton region of Queensland
1996 Adelaide
Scott, Huxley, Eyeson-Annan, Richards, Le Goode
Introduction: The West Moreton region of Queensland covers an area of 7,970 km' west of Brisbane, with a population of approximately 160,000. The standardised mortality ratios in West Moreton region are significantly increased for ischaemic heart disease (IHD), accounting for 30.4% of all…
Poster Development of a consensus criteria list to assess trial quality in systematic reviews
1996 Adelaide
Verhagen, de Vet, de Bie, Kessels, Boers, Knipschild
Introduction: Assessing the quality of RCTs included in a review is important. Firstly, because variation in quality can explain differences in the results. Secondly, because when the methodology of the RCTs included in the review is weak, the conclusions of the review cannot be very strong. It is…
Poster EPIDAS: a randomised controlled clinical trial to assess the efficacy of the transmission of therapeutic information
1996 Adelaide
Boissel, Haugh, Cucherat, Brun, Gauthier
Introduction: Several trials have shown that there is a discrepancy between prescribers behaviour and results from clinical trials. The reasons for this gap are probably manifold, but access to pertinent information is almost certainly one important reason.
Objective: To assess the efficacy of the…
Poster From bush tracks to the Super Highway: can Cochrane make the connection?
1996 Adelaide
Mayer
Introduction: 75% of Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory live in rural and remote areas. While their needs are considerable, access to even basic health care is limited. New initiatives have been introduced to encourage general practitioners to move to these areas. Developments in…
Poster How blind are we?
1996 Adelaide
García, Mateos, Gil, Barcina, Bonfill
Introduction: At times the specific assignment of a patient in a "double blind" trial can be disclosed, which may influence the final results of the study.
Objective: To evaluate the level of knowledge that investigators have about the treatment that each patient receives.
Methods: In…
Poster How can we spread the gospel if we cannot write it down? - more room for qualitative reviews
1996 Adelaide
Assendelft, Koes, Bouter
Introduction: The Cochrane Collaboration aims at the writing and dissemination of systematic reviews for all clinical areas. The methodology for conducting systematic reviews, as described in the Toolkit and required for entering into the Review Manager (RevMan), has mainly been developed in…
Poster How to make the medical standard information database to use for all
1996 Adelaide
Piasecki, Roszkowski, Olakowski
Introduction: Now there is a possibility of exchanging information concerning RCT (Randomized Controlled Trials) both the previous ones and present carring out. That can be done due to fruitful works of Cochrane Collaboration Center and its director Dr Iain Chalmers. it seems to be obvious that…
Poster Identifying reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the Lancet: the contribution of the Cochrane Collaboration
1996 Adelaide
Clarke, McDonald, Lefebvre
Introduction: Since 1993, the Cochrane Collaboration has contributed towards improving the retrieval of RCTs from MEDLINE in two important ways; by devising a highly sensitive search strategy, and by identifying reports of RCTs for retagging by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). In 1994,…