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Poster @EvidenceAid: exploring the social network of a humanitarian knowledge translation programme
2014 Hyderabad
Mellon, Clarke, Allen
Background:
Evidence Aid can be characterised as a knowledge translation project that uses a range of technologies, including social media, to improve the use of systematic reviews evidence before, during and after humanitarian emergencies. Evidence Aid has been using the Twitter platform to…
Poster A new candidate TB vaccine: systematic review of animal studies
2014 Hyderabad
Kashangura, Sena, Young, Garner
Background:
Tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.4 million people every year, so an effective vaccine could have a major impact on global health. A new vaccine is currently being tested in South Africa.
Objectives:
As part of an evaluation of what evidence of benefit we currently have in published…
Poster A survey of use of Cochrane author resources by Malaysian authors
2014 Hyderabad
Sasongko, Ho
Background:
Malaysia has been carrying out author training for the past 10 years using materials initially from the Australasian Cochrane Centre and more recently the Standard training materials which include information on resources available to authors.
Objective:
To assess the awareness…
Poster A tool to measure complexity in public health interventions
2014 Hyderabad
Shankar, Mujja, Lewis, Nair
Background:
Public health interventions target a diverse population, composed of multiple components, mostly context-dependent and, therefore, they are often regarded as complex. The complex nature of public health interventions discourages the use of conventional meta-analytic techniques and…
Poster A typology of questions for systematic reviews on complex interventions
2014 Hyderabad
Hannes
Background:
Several authors have pleaded for the careful planning of mixed method reviews. However, the focus on the procedural or design related aspects of conducting a mixed method review leaves potential review authors with the impression that differences between quantitative and qualitative…
Poster Adherence to IMMPACT outcome reporting recommendations among trials assessing the effect of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain
2014 Hyderabad
Busse, Maqbool, Sivananthan, Lopes, Schandelmaier, Kamaleldin, Hsu, Riva, Vandvik, Tsoi, Lam, Ebrahim, Johnston, Oliveri, Montoya, Kunz, Mulla, Scheidecker, Buckley, Sessler, Guyatt
Background:
Chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) is common, but clinical trials exploring treatment options do not always report all outcomes of importance to patients. To address this issue, the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) consensus has…
Poster Adherence to reporting guidelines in biomedical journals of Latin America
2014 Hyderabad
Glujovsky, Villanueva, Reveiz, Toshiyuki Murasaki
Background:
Several studies have shown important deficiencies in reporting research studies. EQUATOR (Enhancing QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) is a network that promotes the use of free reporting guidelines.
Objectives:
To evaluate the knowledge of the editors of journals…
Poster An approach to disinvestment: an Italian experience
2014 Hyderabad
D'Amico, Balduzzi, Clivio, Grilli
Background:
Disinvestment is the partial/complete withdrawal of resources from existing health care interventions that have questionable benefit. Different processes have been developed to identify these interventions, however there is not consensus on which one to use. In 2013, the Italian…
Poster An empirical investigation of clinical trialists' views regarding methods to conceal allocation
2014 Hyderabad
Mulla, Zhou, Hussain, You, Thabane, Guyatt
Background:
Despite evidence that study personnel can and sometimes do tamper with envelopes, thus jeopardizing randomization, some clinical trials authorities, including the Cochrane Collaboration, maintain that envelopes adequately conceal allocation. Given the apparently conflicting evidence…
Poster An evaluation of harvest plots to display results of meta-analyses in overviews of reviews
2014 Hyderabad
Hartling, Wingert, Crick, Fernandes, Thomson, Williams
Background:
Harvest plots are used to display evidence from complex and diverse studies or results graphically. They group studies based on whether they demonstrate a positive, negative or no effect, and can display additional information, such as quality of evidence.
Objectives:
To: 1)…
Poster Analysis of randomized controlled trials published from India by Indian physiotherapists in PubMed and PEDro database
2014 Hyderabad
Hariohm, Prakash, Saravan Kumar
Background:
Increased scope of physiotherapy (PT) practice also has contributed to research in the field of PT. It is essential to determine the production and quality of the clinical trials from India, since it may reflect the scientific growth of the profession. These trends can be taken as a…
Poster Analysis of treatment description in RCTs in physiotherapy
2014 Hyderabad
Sivaprakash, Hariohm, Saravan Kumar
Introduction:
One analysis found that 67% of drug treatment descriptions were adequate compared with only 29% of non-drug treatments. Physiotherapy is a non-drug health specialty that includes exercise, electrotherapy, thermal treatments etc. Such treatment procedures require clear descriptions…
Poster Are 'Risk of bias' summary graphs in Cochrane Reviews overestimating bias?
2014 Hyderabad
von Elm, Meerpohl
Background:
Cochrane Reviews often include two graphs to summarize overall risk of bias (RoB) of included studies: a horizontal bar chart for RoB of all included studies per domain assessed (RoB graph) and a figure with review authors’ judgement for each domain and study (RoB summary). Both use…
Poster Are Cochrane Review Protocols available and post-protocol changes to methods documented? A study in HIV/AIDS and ophthalmology
2014 Hyderabad
Saldanha, Li, Heyward, Dickersin
Background: There is widespread acknowledgement that clinical trial protocols & amendments should be made public. It is unclear if comparable access to systematic review (SR) protocols & amendments is available. Objectives: To evaluate the availability of Cochrane SR Protocols, extent to…
Poster Are public health strategies relevant to non-communicable disease in China covered in the Cochrane Library?
2014 Hyderabad
Zhang, Garner
Background:
Non-communicable diseases are becoming more common in China, and relevant, evidence-based public health strategies are important for prevention.
Objectives:
We sought to appraise the adequacy of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in relation to coverage of priority…
Poster Assessing adverse effects of interventions in Cochrane reviews: what types of study designs are used?
2014 Hyderabad
Parra, Porfírio, Silva, Martimbianco, Freitas, Torres, Reiter, Pesavento, Riera, Torloni, Atallah
Background:
According to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions (Loke 2011), every healthcare intervention comes with the risk, great or small, of harmful or adverse effects. To minimize bias in reviews, it is important to assess not only favourable outcomes but also the…
Poster Assessing bias in osteoarthritis trials included in Cochrane reviews
2014 Hyderabad
Bolvig Hansen, Juhl, Boutron, Tugwell, Ghogomu, Pardo Pardo, Rader, A. Wells, Mayhew, Lund, Christensen
Introduction:
The validity of reviews and meta-analysis depends upon the methodological quality and unbiased dissemination of trials. Our objective is to evaluate the association of estimates of treatment effects with different bias-related study characteristics in meta-analyses of interventions…
Poster Assessing the quality of surveillance studies
2014 Hyderabad
Jaiswal, Thumburu, Agarwal, Singh, Bharti, Mathew
Background:
Surveillance studies are ranked low in the hierarchy of evidence, but there are conditions where randomized controlled trials cannot be performed and the available evidence is from surveillance. Surveillance for vaccine-preventable diseases is a form of evidence used by resource-poor…
Poster Assessment of attitudes towards participation, willingness to participate, and competence to participate in Randomized Controlled Trials: a cross-sectional qualitative and quantitative survey of psychiatric patients and key family members
2014 Hyderabad
George, Dholakia, Tharyan
Objectives:
To understand the perspectives of Indian patients undergoing treatment for major psychiatric disorders, and of their relatives, regarding participation in randomised clinical trials (RCTs), and to assess their competence to consent.
Methods:
A cross-sectional quantitative and…
Poster Assessment of knowledge, skills and attitude of undergraduate students on evidence-based medicine
2014 Hyderabad
Karanth, Adinegara
Background:
Practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) by physicians and residents has helped to improve patient outcomes in the clinical setting. Recently EBM has been increasingly integrated into the curricula of many medical schools which has shown an increase in knowledge of EBM and also…