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Oral A patient and public involvement panel to explore complex evidence synthesis: a case study on hazardous and harmful alcohol drinking
2018 Edinburgh
Beyer, Angus, Brown, Caldwell, Craig, Edmondson-Jones, Harvey, Henn, Hickman, Lavoie, Michie, Neal, Rice, Kaner
Background:
Patient and public involvement (PPI) is common in primary research, but less widespread in systematic reviews (SRs). We invited consumer partners to contribute to a SR and network meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions for hazardous and…
Oral A patient perspective of using evidence for shared decision-making in a medical consultation
2018 Edinburgh
Brown
Background:
I am a survivor of childhood leukaemia. I had a bone marrow transplant and have experienced multiple complications as result of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments. Recently I have had three episodes of spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed lung) in 14 months. Healthcare…
Poster A pilot study on the efficacy of shared decision making in nutritional consultant clinics for patients with diabetes mellitus
2018 Edinburgh
Pan, Pan, Fan, Wang
Background:
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the fifth greatest cause of death in Taiwan, impacting 2.3 million Taiwanese. Current treatment guidelines recommend lifestyle modification and healthy eating. Nutritional counseling is an important component of diabetes care. Shared decision making (SDM) has…
Poster A practical toolkit for clinicians to locate best evidence to improve patient outcomes
2018 Edinburgh
Kendall, Ryu, Walsh
Background:
Sinai Health System (SHS) is an internationally recognized academic health sciences centre affiliated with the University of Toronto. With more than 28,809 admissions a year, clinicians at SHS are often challenged with locating the best available published evidence at the time of need…
Oral A randomised trial of integrated machine-learning for systematic review 'Risk of bias' assessments
2018 Edinburgh
Arno, Wallace, McKenzie, Marshall, Thomas, Elliott
Background:
Assessment of study risk of bias (RoB) is a key step in a systematic review but is very time-consuming. RobotReviewer is an open-access platform which partially automates RoB assessment using machine-learning (ML) and natural language processing. Covidence is a cloud-based systematic…
Poster A review of methods used for hazard identification and risk assessment of environmental hazards
2018 Edinburgh
Chartres, Norris
Background: Use of divergent methods to identify health risks posed by environmental hazards may hinder the goal of transparency and reduce the level of confidence the public may have in the recommendations made. There is no international standard for best practice in conducting hazard…
Poster A scale for measuring evidence-searching capability: a development and validation study
2018 Edinburgh
Chi, Tsai, Fang
Background: The ability to acquire the best evidence efficiently is important for busy healthcare professionals who have to make decisions within a limited time. However, the current available assessment tools in evidence-based medicine (EBM), e.g. Berlin questionnaire and Fresno test, were not…
Poster A scoping review of tools used to assess the quality of reporting of case report and case series studies
2018 Edinburgh
Wiyeh, Ochodo , Dube , Wiysonge
Background:
Case reports and case series are important in the individualisation of clinical practice recommendations, for the reporting of adverse and beneficial effects of various treatments and in the description of new and unusual diseases. However, despite the availability of several tools…
Poster A search strategy for retrieving articles from the LILACS database in a systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies: an experimental study
2018 Edinburgh
Pereira, Tersi, Puga, Atallah, Ribeiro, Macedo
Background:
LILACS (Latin American Caribbean Health Sciences Literature) is described in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews as one of the resources for systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy. Although many studies have already recognized the importance of LILACS in systematic…
Oral A statistical methodology to integrate the findings from studies of complex public health interventions
2018 Edinburgh
Shankar, Guddattu, Nair
Background:
Public health interventions are often addressed as 'complex interventions'. Application of routine meta-analysis techniques to synthesise the results public health intervention studies provides a pooled estimate, which is diluted by the effect of complexity.
Objective:
To…
Poster A survey of patient-centered outcome for coronary heart disease
2018 Edinburgh
Kong, Yang, Liu, Wang, Liu
Background:
Lack of patient-centered outcomes limits the usefulness of clinical trial evidence to inform healthcare decisions.
Objectives:
1) To investigate outcomes about which patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) are most concerned.
2) To make recommendations for selecting outcome…
Poster A survey on the methodology of nursing clinical practice guidelines in the National Guideline Clearinghouse
2018 Edinburgh
Sun, Chen, Bu, Yu, Wang , Tian
Objectives:
To analyze the current status of the methodology used in nursing clinical practice guidelines in the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC), in order to provide suggestions for researchers to develop and apply.
Methods:
We searched the NGC website for nursing clinical practice…
Oral A systematic and transparent process to support informed decisions for diagnostic tests in laboratory settings
2018 Edinburgh
Pecoraro
Background:
Decision-makers sometimes neglect important criteria regarding the adoption of diagnostic tests that could benefit patients. A transparent and explicit approach based on evidence criteria is an efficient tool to guide decision-making processes.
Objectives:
We applied a…
Poster A systematic review of how studies describe digital health educational interventions: stage one of the development of the STEDI guideline
2018 Edinburgh
Posadzki, Tudor-Car, Semwal , Car
Background:
Digital health education (DHE) is an umbrella term encompassing a broad spectrum of educational interventions that are commonly evaluated in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). To the best of our knowledge, there are no guidelines outlining the key reporting items for studies on DHE…
Poster A tool to measure complexity in public health interventions and classification of studies based on their complexity status
2018 Edinburgh
Shankar, Guddattu, Nair
Background:
Public health interventions include organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Public health interventions are usually prefixed with the word 'complex'. The innate characteristics of these interventions to cater…
Poster AHRQ EPC pilot projects: improving health systems' access to high quality evidence
2018 Edinburgh
Evidence-based Practice Center Program 2018 Methods Workingroup, Gerrity, Fiordalisi, Summer, Guise, Borsky, Chang
Background:
Health systems want access to the best evidence to provide high-quality care to patients. However, they have limited time and resources to identify and incorporate evidence into practice.
Objectives:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funds 12 Evidence-based…
Poster AMSTAR 2 and ROBIS tools: our first-hand experience
2018 Edinburgh
Chakranon, Lee, Tang, Lai
Background:
Systematic reviews are widely used by researchers and decision-makers to guide recommendations. The quality of evidence, and hence the strength of recommendations, is influenced by the quality of the systematic review as well as the included studies. Several tools are now available to…
Poster Academic detailing as a strategy to implement a HIV guideline in primary health care
2018 Edinburgh
Bones, Cazella, Stein
Background: There are several HIV guidelines, based on the age group and clinical condition of the patient. After the START study, the primary health care approach to HIV care is a new challenge, especially for those patients who are asymptomatic and have a CD4 count higher than 350, and in…
Oral Academic detailing: a knowledge translation strategy to implement HIV Clinical Management Guideline
2018 Edinburgh
Bones, Cazella, Stein
Background: The 90-90-90 treatment targets intend to resolve the HIV epidemic by 2030 through treatment to suppress the viral charge. HIV infection has been regarded as a chronic disease, and there is a need to recommend antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible, regardless of the CD4 count (a…
Poster Accessing and using information for choosing over-the-counter (OTC) medicines by consumers
2018 Edinburgh
Mullanurova, Sharafutdinova, Korableva, Ziganshina
Background: The large number of medicines available on the shelves of pharmacies and the aggressive marketing strategies used by pharmaceutical companies make it difficult to choose over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. This is why the provision and dissemination of reliable, objective information is…