Search
Displaying 21 - 40 of 209 Index
Poster An evaluation Of a teacher vision awareness programme (TVAP),implemented by preschool teachers to detect vision problems in pre-school children in Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa
2000 Cape Town
Seethal, Karim
Objective: The aim of the study was to develop, implement and evaluate a Teacher Vision Awareness Programme, for the detection of vision problems in preschool children.
Method: A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted. Each of 32 preschool teachers together with his or her class of…
Poster An evaluation of the RHL by new users in a low income setting.
2000 Cape Town
Brown, Smith, Garner, Hofmeyr, Nikodem
Background: The Effective Care Research Unit (ECRU), of the University of the Witwatersrand, is conducting a research project consisting of the provision of access to evidence based maternity care in the form of the Reproductive Health Library (RHL) and the effects that this has on the provision of…
Oral An individual patient data collaboration for malaria treatment
2000 Cape Town
Adjuik, Taylor, Babiker, Garner
Background: We require new antimalarial drugs against drug resistant strains, and ways to prevent resistance developing. Drugs derived from the Chinese Qinghaosu (artemisinin) are powerful new antimalarials, and researchers suggest they are administered with other antimalarial drugs to improve…
Poster Aspirin Chemoprophylaxis: Weighing the benefits and harms for patients at different levels Of risk for cardiovascular disease.
2000 Cape Town
Hayden, Pignone, Phillips, Mulrow
Background: We conducted a systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force to estimate the benefits and harms of aspirin chemoprophylaxis in patients with different levels of risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Methods: We searched MEDLINE from 1966 to January 2000 and the Cochrane…
Oral Australian Physicians and EBM: Where are we now and Where to from here?
2000 Cape Town
Toulkidis, Ward
Background: The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) promotes continuing professional development and standards of practice in adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand. Our survey was designed to assess the views of physicians about evidence-based medicine (EBM) and related issues,…
Poster Automated translation of abstracts using a free internet software package
2000 Cape Town
Haugh, Adams, Leucht
Background: To facilitate the dissemination of Cochrane Reviews it will be necessary to translate some, if not all, of the review text. As an initial step in this process we looked at the use of automated translation of the abstracts of completed reviews, which could be considered as an attractive…
Poster Bed rest after subarachnoidal puncture to prevent headache: a systematic review
2000 Cape Town
Müllner, Thoennissen, Herkner, Lang, Laggner
Abstract: To performe a systematic literature review of randomised controlled trials to assess if bed rest can prevent postpunctural headache. Study selection We searched EMBASE (89-9/99), MEDLINE (r) (66-9/99), PASCAL BioMed (96-9/99), CC Search (r) CSI (97-9/99), PsychLIT (70-9/99), the Cochrane…
Poster Blood pressure variability; lessons learned from a systematic review
2000 Cape Town
Wright, Musini
Background: When doing systematic reviews with continuous variables we commonly focus on the mean effect size. A positive additional outcome of the work of a systematic review can be achieved by carefully looking at the variability of the data. In our case this was the standard deviation (SD) of…
Poster Broad versus narrow questions: empirical evidence of lumping and splitting of topics in Cochrane Perinatal Reviews
2000 Cape Town
Askie, Irwig, Henderson-Smart
Background: The issue of focusing a systematic review, and thereby choosing the right question, can be problematic from both the reviewer's and consumer's point of view. Variation exists in whether different types of outcomes, patients (e.g. age category, risk level), and interventions…
Poster But is it relevant? Applying the results of Cochrane Reviews to high-risk and disadvantaged populations.
2000 Cape Town
Morris
Background: The Cochrane Library is regarded as "the best single source of reliable evidence on the effects of health care". However, the majority of the reviews are conducted in developed countries and only the abstracts are freely available.
Objectives: To describe the relevance of…
Oral Can Cinderalla's sisters make it to the ball? Summary reviews/overviews within revMan 4.1.
2000 Cape Town
Adams, Fenton, Anthony
Background:During 1999 Cochrane Review Groups (CRGs) invested effort re-constructing Topic lists for quarterly submission with their Modules. These lists place Cochrane reviews and protocols in a logical context of the work of relevant CRGs. Current lists, however, do not link to relevant non-…
Poster Can Indirect comparisons be improved using individual patient data?
2000 Cape Town
Tudur, Williamson, Marson, Chadwick
Abstract: Seven pairwise comparisons of 5 different anti-epileptic drugs (AED) have been examined separately. Individual patient data (IPD) are available for a total of 14 randomised controlled trials (RCT) of these AED's in 3472 patients with epilepsy. As the number of trials included in any…
Oral Can exercise prevent osteoporosis in postmenopausal women? Meta-analysis of (R) CT's on the effects of endurance and strength training on bone mass
2000 Cape Town
Kemper, Wolff, Croonenborg
Abstract:The purpose of this meta-analysis is calculating the summary effects of (randomized) controlled trials examining the effects of endurance (with weight bearing and aerobic activities) and strength training programs (with high impact and resistance activities) on the bone mineral density (…
Poster Challenge and strategy of developing country participating in Cochrane collaboration - experience of Chinese Cochrane center
2000 Cape Town
Li, Li, Zhang, Wang, Liu, He, Deng, Wei, Yuan
Background: Cochrane Collaboration (CC) is quite new in China. How to raise the awareness and facilitate Chinese involvement and make the Cochrane activities relevant to health policy-making and clinical practice are the core task of Chinese Cochrane Center (ChiCC) after its registration in CC in…
Poster Challenges and strategies of increasing production of Cochrane reviews in China
2000 Cape Town
Liu, Li, He, Li
Background: Currently Cochrane reviewers and reviews produced in China are much fewer compared with that of many other countries in the Cochrane Collaboration. Objective: To identify difficulties and develop strategies for increasing production of Cochrane reviews in China.
Methods: During 1999…
Poster Chemotherapy in high-grade glioma: A systematic review and meta-analysis using individual patient data from randomised clinical trials (RCTS).
2000 Cape Town
Stewart, Burdett, Souhami
Background: Randomised trials of chemotherapy in high-grade glioma frequently have small numbers of patients and have shown inconclusive or conflicting results. There is no real consensus on whether chemotherapy improves survival, an international collaborative meta-analysis was therefore initiated…
Poster Chinese medicinal herbs for Chronic Hepatitis B: A systematic review
2000 Cape Town
Liu
Background: Hepatitis B is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV). There are 350 million people chronically infected with the virus who are at risk of cirrhosis and cancer of liver, and 12 million with chronic hepatitis B are in China. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM…
Poster Choice of summary statistics in Cochrane reviews
2000 Cape Town
Amsallem, Haugh, Boissel
Background: The results of Cochrane systematic reviews are being used increasingly, both in clinical practice and by deciders. Many users of these reviews will interpret results expressed as odds ratios as being relative risks. This was recently observed in a project (involving health policy…
Poster Clinical checklist: sensitivity and specificity
2000 Cape Town
Celani, Cantisani, Cusi, Filippini, Munari, Taus, Candelise
Abstract: A number of "checklists" have been published to assess the validity of the methodological quality of a review (Oxam, Jadad). Conversely, few "checklists" have been published to assess the validity of its clinical interest. The primary aim of this study is to compare…
Poster Clinicians need evidence that is based upon research conducted with relevant patient groups: The example of antidepressant prescribing in primary care.
2000 Cape Town
MacGillivray, Arroll, Oakley-Browne, Khin
Abstract: With the increased emphasis on practising evidence based medicine, clinicians need to be able to select the best evidence available on which to base their practice. A problem exists in the ways in which primary care clinicians use antidepressants in the treatment of depression. General…