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Oral A new machine-learning powered tool to aid citation screening for evidence synthesis: PICOPortal
2020 Abstracts
Agai
Background:
Identifying all evidence relevant to a systematic review remains a critical yet time-consuming step in the evidence synthesis process. Machine learning methods and collaborative screening software constitute potential means of reducing the workload necessary to perform citation…
Poster A new tool to assess the trustworthiness of evidence-based point-of-care information for health care professionals
2020 Abstracts
Lenaerts, Bekkering, Goossens, Deconinck, Delvaux, Cordyn, Adriaenssens, Vankrunkelsven
Background: User-friendly information at the point-of-care (POC) should be well structured, rapidly accessible and comprehensive. The reliability of information and the associated methodological process must be clear. There is no standard tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of such POC information…
Oral A pilot to translate Cochrane Incontinence blogshots: does it sustainably help reach a more global audience?
2020 Abstracts
Johnson, Ried
Background: In 2017, Cochrane Incontinence adopted a new dissemination policy that included the production and circulation of visual products to disseminate the key evidence of its reviews, such as blogshots (a short summary of key points from a review with a picture that can be shared on social…
Oral A protocol for the practical application of human rights in World Health Organization guideline development
2020 Abstracts
Thomas, Thomas Bosco, Takawira, Peretz , Garner
Background:
Equity, rights, gender and societal (ERGS) considerations are central to achieving global health and well being as well as more equitable distribution of good health. The World Health Organization (WHO) is mandated to ensure incorporation of ERGS into its guidelines. However,…
Oral A readability assessment of Plain Language Summaries and abstracts of Cochrane Systematic Reviews published during 2019
2020 Abstracts
Meza, Perez-Bracchiglione, Franco, Garnham, Tapia-Benavente, Olguín-Sepúlveda, Urrútia, Madrid
Background:
Plain Language Summaries (PLS) of Cochrane Systematic Reviews (CSR) must be written in clear and simple language to serve a relevant aim of knowledge translation, and must be accurately summarised in a succinct and readable style, as a way to deliver the results to a broad audience.…
Poster A review on systems perspectives in systematic reviews
2020 Abstracts
Hong, Bangpan, Stansfield, Kneale, O'Mara-Eves, van Grootel, Thomas
Background: Reviewing complex interventions is challenging because they include a large number of elements that can interact dynamically in a non-linear manner. Also, complex interventions are often nested within a wider system that cannot be fully understood by only using linear causal models and…
Poster A scoping review of prospective meta-analyses in health research
2020 Abstracts
Cheyne, Seidler, Hunter, Ghersi, Berlin, Askie
Background: Prospective meta-analyses (PMA) may reduce many of the issues that can occur in traditional (retrospective) meta-analyses by reducing biases in publication and selective reporting. A summary of PMA literature is needed to gain greater clarity and inform future reporting of PMA.…
Oral A snapshot of the review prioritisation work conducted by the Gynaecological, Neuro-oncology and Orphan Cancers Group since 2007.
2020 Abstracts
Quinn, Jess, Grant, Tomlinson, Harrison, Platt
Background:
Setting systematic review topic priorities is vital for Cochrane Review Groups. It helps to ensure Cochrane review evidence is relevant to end-users such as clinicians, consumers, healthcare professionals and policy makers. Since 2007, the Gynaecological, Neuro-oncology and Orphan…
Poster A survey of Cochrane editors revealed several problem areas related to time-to-event (meta-)analyses
2020 Abstracts
Goldkuhle, van Dalen, Macbeth, Skoetz
Background: Previous work demonstrated flaws in the analysis and interpretation of time-to-event outcomes by authors of recent Cochrane reviews. As part of a Cochrane Networks Innovation Fund project, we conducted a survey of Cochrane editors.
Objectives: To identify which training and…
Poster A survey on the registration of COVID-19 clinical trials
2020 Abstracts
Ma, Zhang, Wang, Yang, Zhang, Chen
Background:
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the COVID-19 outbreak can be characterized as a "pandemic" as the "SARS-COV-2" virus spreads increasingly worldwide. Following the outbreak of COVID-19, China and even the world have started a number…
Poster A systematic literature review on implementation of cervical cancer screening and associated factors in Nepal: study protocol
2020 Abstracts
Shrestha, Greibe Andersen, Neupane, Ghimire, Campbell, Kallestrup
Background:
Cervical cancer is a major cause of cancer death among women in Nepal. The high burden of this disease necessitates identifying relevant evidence to inform policy development and guidelines. This protocol describes a planned systematic review that will collate and report the…
Poster A systematic review of quality improvement education for medical students: Kirkpatrick’s learning model
2020 Abstracts
Brannan, Rao, Brooks, Mills, Harnden, Alderson, McQuiston
Background:
The 2001 Institute of Medicine’s report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, revealed a fractured American Healthcare System and a critical need for quality improvement (QI) training. Since that time, medical education accrediting bodies such as AAMC and ACGME have incorporated the findings…
Oral A tool to assess Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies - of Exposures (ROBINS-E)
2020 Abstracts
Morgan, Taylor, Higgins, Rooney, Thayer, Schunemann, Sterne
Background: Systematic reviews should include rigorous risk-of-bias assessments of eligible studies. Although a large majority of Cochrane reviews address the effects of interventions, there is increasing interest in systematic reviews of other types of problem. One important category is systematic…
Oral AMSTAR2 or ROBIS to teach evidence synthesis?
2020 Abstracts
Lee
Background:
Systematic reviews (SRs) are an important source of evidence that are used to inform decision making. As such, it is important that healthcare students are taught these on how to interpret, and judge the methodological quality of systematic reviews. Several tools currently exist to…
Poster ASSESSMENT OF PUBLICATION BIAS IN BREAST CANCER SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
2020 Abstracts
Pompeu, Porfírio
Background: Publication bias is related to aspects other than quality that can influence the viability of a publication. In general there is a greater probability of publishing studies with positive results not showing the totality of the avaliable data. Considering the number of reviews published…
Oral Accelerating integration of emerging evidence into health care delivery: rapid reviews for learning health systems
2020 Abstracts
Hager, Jungbauer
Background: Ideally, clinical care is based on real-time, best available evidence. In reality, research findings take on average 17 years to translate into policy and practice. Developing and implementing health system guidelines using a rapid review process can reduce the time it takes to…
Poster Accuracy of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale – Depression subscale (HADS-D) for detecting major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis
2020 Abstracts
Wu, Levis, Benedetti, Thombs
Background: The Depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D) is recommended for depression screening in people with physical health problems. A score of ≥ 11 is considered a clinically significant depressive disorder, whereas a score between 8 and 10 suggests a mild…
Poster Accuracy of the PHQ-9 for screening to detect major depression: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
2020 Abstracts
Negeri, Levis, Benedetti, Thombs, DEPRESSD PHQ Collaboration
Background: Depression accounts for more years of “healthy” life lost than any other medical condition. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is present in 5-10% of primary care patients and 10-20% of patients with chronic medical conditions. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is the most…
Oral Achieving evidence interoperability in the computer age: setting evidence on the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
2020 Abstracts
Alper, Munn , Salas, Tristan, Brand, Lorio, Schilling
Evidence standard practice requires the use of research results to inform the computers that can add capacity for evidence-based practice by making the information from research results, standard the summarisations searchable and re-usable without labour-intensive manual screening and repetition of…
Poster Active placebo versus standard placebo control interventions in pharmacological randomised trials: a systematic review
2020 Abstracts
Laursen, Hansen, Paludan-Müller, Hróbjartsson
Background:
Placebos are used as control interventions in randomized trials to enable blinding of participants and personnel. This can help reduce the risk of bias due to, for example, observer bias, reporting bias and bias related to placebo effects. Standard placebos in pharmacological trials…