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Workshop Issues in using, interpreting, and presenting patient-reported outcomes in Cochrane Reviews
2019 Santiago
Patrick, Devji, Guyatt
Background: systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized trials that include patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) provide crucial information for patients and clinicians facing challenging healthcare decisions. Based on emerging methods, guidance on combining PROMs in meta-analyses and…
Workshop A practical introduction individual participant data meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Nevitt, Rydzewska
Background: systematic reviews of individual participant data (IPD), where individual-level data from all studies addressing a particular question are collected, checked and analysed, are widely regarded as the ‘gold standard’ approach to evidence-synthesis. The number of published Cochrane and non…
Workshop An introduction to rapid reviews: developing timely evidence summaries for decision makers (a Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group (RRMG) workshop)
2019 Santiago
Stevens, Garritty, Nussbaumer-Streit, Gartlehner, King, Kamel
Background: rapid reviews are increasingly used as a research synthesis tool to support timely evidence-informed decision making. However, the methodology used to develop rapid reviews is still emerging.
Objectives: this introductory workshop aims to:
1) introduce the concept of rapid reviews…
Workshop Assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions (1): introduction to the ROBINS-I tool
2019 Santiago
Sterne, Higgins, Savovic
Background:
Non-randomized studies of interventions (NRSI) can provide information about effects of interventions that is not available from randomized trials, but their results may be affected by confounding, selection and information bias. Assessing the risk of bias in NRSIs included in…
Workshop Assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions 2: an online tool to facilitate risk of bias assessments using the ROBINS-I tool
2019 Santiago
Higgins, Savovic, Sterne, Hutton
Background: non-randomized studies of interventions (NRSI) can provide useful data on the effects of healthcare interventions but are likely to be subject to confounding and other biases. We present a new online implementation of the ROBINS-I (Risk of Bias In Non-randomized Studies - of…
Workshop Assessing risk of bias in randomized trials: RoB 2
2019 Santiago
Savovic, Higgins, Sterne, Page
Background: randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide evidence about the effects of healthcare interventions. However, trial results can be undermined by flaws in design, conduct, analyses and selective reporting. Therefore, review authors should systematically take into account risk of bias in…
Workshop Assessing the certainty of the evidence from network-meta analysis using the GRADE approach
2019 Santiago
Brignardello-Petersen, Sadeghirad, Guyatt
Background: assessing the certainty of evidence is among the Methodological Expectations of Cochrane Intervention Reviews (MECIR) standards, and it is also acknowledged as a key step in non-Cochrane reviews. Appropriate interpretation of the results from network meta-analysis (NMA) requires…
Workshop Building a diverse community: new ways to participate in Cochrane
2019 Santiago
Champion, Ried, Noel-Storr
Background: Cochrane has developed many new ways to get involved over the last five years, which go beyond authoring reviews. These include Cochrane Crowd, TaskExchange and translations. These initiatives are part of Cochrane’s Membership Project that seeks to broaden our community by giving a…
Workshop Cochrane Crowd and Classmate: new ways of working and learning together to produce health evidence
2019 Santiago
Noel-Storr, Dooley
Background: Cochrane Crowd (crowd.cochrane.org) is an online platform that hosts tasks that help identify and describe health research. Anyone can join this collective effort. Since launch, over 12,500 people from 180 countries have joined. People take part for a range of reasons, with learning as…
Workshop Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS): training for information specialists
2019 Santiago
Noel-Storr, Foxlee, Dooley, Anstee
Background: the Cochrane Register of Studies (CRS) is a critical component of Cochrane information systems and is vital for information specialists to reduce duplication of effort and to efficiently curate and manage studies for Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Information Specialist Support and Metaxis…
Workshop Collaboration among Cochrane Fields, Networks and Review Groups to optimize knowledge translation for different stakeholders and audiences
2019 Santiago
Negrini, Kiekens, Lockwood, Mahan, Naude, Thomson, Wieland
Background: Knowledge Translation (KT) has always been one of the core of activities of Cochrane, and has recently been boosted by Strategy to 2020, creating new insights but also challenges for Review Groups (CRGs) and the Cochrane community. One of the challenges is constructive engagement…
Workshop Comparing multiple interventions with network meta-analysis
2019 Santiago
Chaimani, Li, Salanti, Higgins, Caldwell
Background: standard meta-analysis methods for clinical trials focus on comparisons of two interventions, such as a drug versus placebo, or a new intervention versus standard practice. In clinical practice, there are rarely only two interventions under consideration. Extensions of meta-analysis to…
Workshop Core principles for dissemination: a checklist for improving the quality of Cochrane’s dissemination products
2019 Santiago
Rosenbaum, Fønhus, Glenton, Anthony, Head
Background: when developing Cochrane dissemination products (for instance, blogshots, PLS, podcasts, and other products), we want to give a reasonably complete, nuanced, and unbiased representation of the evidence. In addition, we want to present the evidence in a way that people with or without…
Workshop Covidence, a multi-lingual tool that helps to produce systematic reviews (in Spanish)
2019 Santiago
Glujovsky, Ciapponi, Arno
Background: Covidence is Cochrane’s online systematic review production platform, improving the efficiency and experience of producing systematic reviews. The tool supports importation and de-duplication of citations; screening of titles, abstracts and full texts; risk of bias assessment; data…
Workshop Data extraction and analysis of data on adverse effects in systematic reviews
2019 Santiago
Junqueira, Loke, Golder, Vohra, Kwong
Background: more than one-third of systematic reviews do not appropriately address adverse events. When data on adverse events are assessed, they are frequently lumped together and reported as a general composite outcome of total adverse effects, eventually subgrouped in serious and non-serious…
Workshop Determining the credibility of minimal important differences (MIDs) for application in meta-analysis of patient-reported outcomes in systematic reviews and guidelines
2019 Santiago
Patrick, Devji, Guyatt, Carasco Labra
Background: investigators increasingly rely on patient-reported outcomes (PRO) as key end points in clinical trials, meta-analyses, and clinical practice guidelines. The interpretation of the magnitude of treatment effects on PRO measures (PROMs), however, presents challenges. The most common…
Workshop Developing visual social media content and learning new strategies for disseminating #CochraneEvidence - 'Reaching a more diverse audience'
2019 Santiago
Hendon, Uphoff, Robertson, Morley
Background: at the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group we are evolving our dissemination strategy to reach a larger audience that may benefit from our mental health evidence. With initial guidance from a social media expert, we have experimented with different social media platforms, including…
Workshop EPPI-Reviewer: review-production software that adapts to your own needs
2019 Santiago
Graziosi, López-Alcalde, Stallings, Brunton, Thomas
Background: EPPI-Reviewer has been part of the Cochrane ecosystem of tools since 2015 and is available free of charge for Cochrane Reviews. Its role is to facilitate the production of complex reviews. Earlier this year we launched a completely new version that works in any modern web browser.…
Workshop Evidence gap maps (EGMs) and mapping reviews. An introduction to their purpose, methods and constructing an EGM
2019 Santiago
Campbell, Saran, Graziosi
Background: demand for evidence synthesis to inform practice, policy and research agendas has grown exponentially over the last three decades. In response, systematic review methods have evolved to meet the increasingly diverse types of questions that systematic review methods are being used to…
Workshop From artificial intelligence to the wisdom of the crowd. An opportunity to test drive new technologies for your systematic review
2019 Santiago
Thomas, Noel-Storr, Shemilt, Stansfield, McDonald
Background: For many years we have been hearing about new technology that will make systematic reviews more efficient, and these tools are now reaching a state of maturity where they are becoming viable for use in live reviews. These cover the full range of systematic review tasks, from study…