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Poster A strategy to increase partnerships between health care professionals and Cochrane Canada: online peer review modules for dietitians
2013 Québec City
Santesso, Thirsk, Vilis, Arratoon, Grimshaw
Background: Cochrane Canada continues to work to create partnerships with health care professional groups to increase the awareness and use of Cochrane Reviews. Recently, Cochrane Canada and the Dietitians of Canada saw the opportunity to involve dietitians more actively in the systematic review…
Poster A study of evidence sources used in midwifery training and practice
2013 Québec City
Alderdice, McNeill, Lasserson, Clarke
Background: Reports across various settings show significant barriers still exist to the use of reliable evidence sources by health professionals in training and in practice.
Objectives: (1) To describe the attitudes of midwifery students to evidence based practice (EBP). (2) To identify the…
Poster A systematic assessment of the quality of systematic reviews/meta-analyses on radiofrequency ablation versus hepatic resection for small hepatocellular carcinoma
2013 Québec City
Wang, Luo, Li, Deng, Li, Wei, Yu
Background: The systematic reviews (SRs) of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) versus hepatic resection (HR) for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are increasing, however, qualities of them varies.
Objectives: This study was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of China to evaluate the…
Oral A systematic review of the use of narrative storytelling and visual arts-based approaches as knowledge translation tools in healthcare
2013 Québec City
Scott, Brett-MacLean, Archibald, Albrecht, Flynn, Hartling
Background: The arts are powerful, accessible forms of communication that have the potential to impart knowledge by attracting interest and developing meaningful connections. Knowledge translation aims to reduce the ‘evidence-practice’ gap by developing, implementing and evaluating strategies…
Poster A user-friendly alert service of high-impact, pre-filtered literature for obstetrics and gynaecology
2013 Québec City
Skidmore, Bell, LeBlanc, Paquette
Background: Medical specialty society members work and reside in geographically disparate and varied surroundings. Access to reliable, up-to-date, and publicly-accessible evidence-based information is variable.
Objectives: To provide a timely and credible resource of current literature…
Poster Accuracy of blood pressure data abstraction from graphs
2013 Québec City
Soufi, Zhang, Musini
Background: Assessing hourly blood pressure (BP) measurements from graphs presents a challenge in making reliable measurements. The Hypertension Review Group has undertaken a series of time-course reviews to assess the temporal BP lowering efficacy of various antihypertensive medications. The…
Oral Addressing missing participant data for continuous outcomes assessed with different instruments: a guide for systematic review authors
2013 Québec City
Ebrahim, Johnston, Akl, Mustafa, Sun, Walter, Heels-Ansdell, Alonso-Coello, Guyatt
Background: We previously developed an approach to address the impact of missing participant data for continuous outcomes in meta-analyses of trials that used the same measurement instrument.
Objectives: To extend our approach to meta-analyses including trials that use different instruments to…
Workshop Addressing missing participant data in systematic reviews: Continuous outcomes—Part 2
2013 Québec City
Ebrahim, Akl, Johnston, Alonso, Mustafa, Sun, Walter, Heels-Ansdell
Objectives:
To describe how to use an innovative approach to addressing missing participant data for continuous outcomes in systematic reviews.
Description:
The workshop will consist of the following: [1] An interactive presentation of the proposed approach: a complete case analysis and…
Workshop Addressing missing participant data in systematic reviews: dichotomous outcomes – Part 1
2013 Québec City
Akl, Ebrahim, Johnston, Alonso, Briel, Cook
Objectives:
To describe how to use an innovative approach to addressing missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes in systematic reviews of randomized trials.
Description:
The workshop will consist of the following: (1) A didactic presentation of methods being used by SRs for…
Workshop Advanced meta-analysis—dealing with heterogeneity and test comparisons
2013 Québec City
Macaskill, Takwoingi
Objectives:
The Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Working Group has developed a series of workshops addressing guidelines as formulated in the Handbook for Diagnostic Test Accuracy reviews. This workshop aims to: (1) Explain the recommended statistical models used for diagnostic test accuracy…
Poster Advancing quality in health policy decision-making in the face of uncertainty: an integrated review to characterize and address uncertainty
2013 Québec City
Brouwers, Driedger, Makarski, Craigie, Annable
Background: Evidence-based decision-making has become a cornerstone of effective health care in both clinical and policy contexts. Specific to the health policy setting, decision-makers must make decisions within the context of uncertainty, a phenomenon that has been poorly understood. Specifically…
Poster An analysis of randomized controlled trials of tuberculosis prophylaxis and treatment in Africa
2013 Québec City
Abrams, Kredo
Background: Africa is severely affected by tuberculosis (TB). In 2011 sub-Saharan Africa carried the greatest proportion of new cases with over 260 cases per 100 000 population. Completed, ongoing and planned trial information is needed by health workers, researchers, policy makers, consumers and…
Oral An analysis of theory building in realist synthesis: perspectives from the literature
2013 Québec City
Hunt, Hardwick
This presentation will be made jointly by Rebecca Hardwick and Harriet Hunt from the University of Exeter Medical School, UK.
Background: Realist reviews offer an approach to evidence synthesis which moves beyond describing whether something works, to explaining who it works for, in what…
Poster An approach to deal with the absence of cohort studies in prognosis systematic reviews: a meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
2013 Québec City
El Dib, Branco, Kapoor
Background: Systematic reviews aim to provide an exhaustive summary of literature relevant to a certain topic through the organization of similar primary studies and, when possible, summarize them in a meta-analysis. This means that systematic reviews should offer clinicians, health professionals…
Oral An empirical comparison of univariate and multivariate meta-analysis for categorical outcomes
2013 Québec City
Trikalinos, Hoaglin, Schmid
Background: Treatment effects for multiple outcomes can be meta-analyzed separately or jointly, but no systematic empirical comparison of the two approaches exists.
Objectives: To compare separate (univariate) and joint (multivariate) meta-analysis of categorical outcomes that have known within…
Oral An environmental scan for training programs in medical writing and publishing and a systematic review of their effectiveness
2013 Québec City
Galipeau, Moher, Cameron, Campbell, Hébert, Hendry, Palepu, Skidmore
Background: Approximately $100 billion is lost to ‘waste’ in biomedical research globally, annually, mainly due to the poor quality of published research. In response, there has been an upsurge in interest regarding the scientific process of writing, editing, peer reviewing, and publishing (i.e.,…
Oral An equity focused approach for systematic reviews: using community dialogue to interpret the implications of findings for safety and security of immigrant children and youth
2013 Québec City
Pottie, Dahal, Georgiades, Rader, Hassan
Background: When languages and cultures clash there may be implications for safety and security of immigrant children and youth.
Objectives: This systematic review synthesizes literature examining the impact of cultural discordance on bullying and violence (physical and sexual) of immigrant…
Poster An innovative tool for incorporating risk of bias ratings into the GRADE assessment
2013 Québec City
Marin, Furlan
Background: Assessing the risk of bias (RoB) of included studies and then incorporating this information into the GRADE assessment is one of the most complicated aspects of conducting a review. This is especially true for reviews of non-randomized studies (NRS).
Objectives: To develop a useful…
Workshop An introduction to systematic reviews of prognostic studies
2013 Québec City
Hayden, Moons, Riley, Altman, Woolfenden, Williams
Objectives:
This workshop will introduce participants to systematic reviews of prognostic studies. We will discuss challenges and will help participants formulate a prognostic review question. Using published examples and exercises, we will introduce methods and resources for conducting a…
Workshop An introduction to systematic reviews of prognostic studies
2013 Québec City
Hayden, Moons, Riley, Altman, Woolfenden, Williams
Objectives:
This workshop will introduce participants to systematic reviews of prognostic studies. We will discuss challenges and will help participants formulate a prognostic review question. Using published examples and exercises, we will introduce methods and resources for conducting a…