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Workshop An introduction to literature searching for systematic reviews
2005 Melbourne
Friesen, Bickley
Objectives: The aim of this workshop is to introduce clear and logical methods of literature searching to those with little or no experience. At the end of the session participants should understand (1) how to develop an answerable question, (2) have a general understanding of the logical way to…
Poster Analysing and presenting results from systematic reviews of complex interventions
2005 Melbourne
Jamtvedt, Young, Tove Kristoffersen, Oxman
Background: Audit and feedback is commonly used to improve professional practice and in quality improvement programs. A systematic review included 85 studies involving audit and feedback, and an ongoing update of this review will include at least 25 more studies. As with many Effective Practice and…
Poster Analytical validity of molecular techniques for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer: a systematic review
2005 Melbourne
Kakuma, McGahan, Joyce
Background: Spectrums of mutations in the BReast CAncer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been linked to the development of both breast and ovarian cancers. The analytical validity of molecular technologies and issues associated with BRCA1/2 genetic testing were examined in an effort to…
Poster Analyzing the quality of clinical randomized control trial of Traditional Chinese Medicine for coronary heart disease (CHD)
2005 Melbourne
Duan, Zhou, Wu
Objective: To assess the quality of clinical randomized control trials (RCT) of Traditional Chinese medicine for CHD.
Method: Handsearched 83 Journals of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1977-2002.6). Include criteria: clinical randomized controlled trial of Traditional Chinese medicine for CHD.…
Poster Anticipating policy makers' needs: moving toward health intelligence at WHO/Europe
2005 Melbourne
Watson, Wallace
Background: WHO/Europe uses a broad and operational definition of evidence which is 'findings from research and other knowledge that may be useful in decision making in public health and health care'. Time and experience has shown that bridging the gap between 'producers' of…
Workshop Applying house style to Cochrane reviews using the Cochrane Style Guide and Review Manager
2005 Melbourne
Gillespie, MacLehose
Objectives: The purpose of this workshop is to:
1. familiarize participants with the new Cochrane Style Basics;
2. demonstrate features in Review Manager (RevMan) that can be used to check reviews before submission;
3. provide an opportunity for participants to discuss ways of implementing…
Poster Are they doing what it says on the packet? Towards an implementation fidelity index for use in systematic reviews
2005 Melbourne
Montgomery, Gardner, Mayo Wilson, Tamayo
Background: Like medical interventions, psychosocial interventions are not always implemented as intended. Previous authors have noted five domains of 'implementation fidelity': 1-Adherence to protocol; 2-Programme differentiation; 3-Take-up; 4-Quality of delivery; and 5-Participant…
Poster Ask the author? Does it make a difference to quality assessment?
2005 Melbourne
Wilson, Bohlius, Langensiepen, Brunskill, Hyde
Background: A unique collaboration has enabled us to observe that published trial reports give little data to allow reviewers to make adequate assessments of trial quality. A systematic review on erythropoietin in cancer patients was produced by the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group (…
Oral Assessing the body of evidence and grading recommendations in evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
2005 Melbourne
Middleton, Tooher, Salisbury, Coleman, Norris, Grimmer, Hillier
Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are documents to support decision-making in actual clinical situations. At present in Australia guideline recommendations in nationally endorsed CPGs are usually accompanied by an indication of the level of evidence (based on study design) supporting…
Poster Assessing the quality of information recorded on trial registries
2005 Melbourne
Nurbhai, Grimshaw, Lorenzo Moja, Liberati, Chan, Dickersin, Krezla-Jeric, Moher
Background: In 2004 all ICMJE member journals agreed to adopt a trial registrations policy as one solution to publication bias. The value of trial registries (TRs) has been well established and is supported by funding and government agencies. Yet there is little focus on the type and completeness…
Poster Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials evaluating nonpharmacological treatments: a CheckList to Evaluate A Report of NonPharmacological Trial (CLEAR NPT)
2005 Melbourne
Boutron, Moher, Tugwell, Giraudeau, Poiraudeau,, Nizard, Ravaud
Background: Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) is necessary as study characteristics can influence treatment estimates. Existing validated tools used to assess quality do not take into account specific methodological issues in assessing nonpharmacological…
Poster Assessing the success of blinding in randomized controlled trials
2005 Melbourne
Boutron, Estellat
Background: The methods to assess the success of blinding in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has been widely debated. However, no rigorous study of assessing the success of blinding has been published.
Objective: To determine methods to assess the success of blinding in randomised controlled…
Workshop Authoring and editing reviews through the new Cochrane Information Management System: an introductory workshop for review authors and editors
2005 Melbourne
Riis, Dooley, Ebrahim, Gray, Henderson
Objectives: To demonstrate how authors and editors can benefit from the new Cochrane Information Management System (IMS) when authoring and editing Cochrane reviews.
Description: Between June 2005 and May 2006, the new IMS will gradually be rolled out to the editorial bases of Cochrane Review…
Workshop Basics of meta-analysis
2005 Melbourne
Lewis, McKenzie
Objectives:To provide review authors with the knowledge to do a basic meta-analysis.
Description: This workshop will cover the basic methods of meta-analysis available to reviewers using RevMan software. The differences between methods will be discussed, and advice given on which should be used…
Poster Behavioral medicine: providing another perspective of trial methodologies
2005 Melbourne
Davidson, Trudeau, Falzon, Whitlock
Background: The Probable Cochrane Behavioral Medicine (BM) Field has been involved in preliminary activities to adapt evidence-based methods to fully consider behavioral medicine topics and to consider ways that these behavioral intervention-specific methodologies may be useful to others. For…
Poster Bibliometric analyses along cumulative meta-analyses: the Life Cycle of Evidence in Cancer Care (LIFE CYCLE)
2005 Melbourne
McGowan, Nurbhai, Reaume, Lorenzo Moja, Graham
Background: The LIFE CYCLE study aims to identify the key milestones in the life cycle of evidence of 9 novel chemotherapy agents, approved in Canada between 1992 and 2002 for metastatic breast and non small cell lung (NSCLC) cancers, using cumulative meta-analyses and bibliometric analyses.…
Oral Bivariate meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity in diagnostic reviews
2005 Melbourne
Reitsma, Leeflang, Rutjes, Scholten, Bossuyt, Zwinderman
Background: The majority of diagnostic accuracy studies report pairs of sensitivity and specificity. The summary Receiver Operating Characteristic (sROC) approach is the method of choice for meta-analysing these studies. This method uses the diagnostic odds ratio as the main outcome measure.…
Poster Building a specialized register of behavioral medicine interventions
2005 Melbourne
Falzon
Background: The Probable Cochrane Behavioral Medicine Field has a mandate to map and disseminate studies which make up the evidence base in this discipline and make the information available in a user-friendly format. To meet this aim we are building a website featuring a database of behavioral…
Poster Calculating standardised mean differences from cluster randomised trials using published sources
2005 Melbourne
White, Thomas
Background: Standardised mean differences (SMD) are often used in statistical meta-analyses to combine outcomes measured using different scales. They are calculated by dividing the difference in post-intervention means between two groups by the pooled standard deviation of the outcome. Methods for…
Poster Can summarising trials of public health strategies by camparator design improve interpretation?
2005 Melbourne
Baker, Thomas, Lorenzetti
Background: Head-to-head comparisons of two active strategies, intervention vs. control / usual care and incremental interventions (the strategy as an add-on to another strategy) are often encountered by reviewers. The assessment against a control/usual practice is the classical approach to assess…