Oral presentations:

• "Admissible Evidence": the nature of evidence in Public Health and Medicine
• Evidence-based medicine: view from the trenches
• The medical management of children who failed the Ewing hearing test: current practice compared to outcomes of RCTs
• When clinical practice does not follow the evidence: physician's recommendation of mammography
• Routine preoperative investigation: results of a survey in Italy
• Current status and future perspectives of health technology assessment in Germany
• Promoting the rigorous development of clinical guidelines through the creation of a common appraisal
• The UK NHS HTA programme
• Disseminating and implementing practice guidelines: findings from the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy & Research
• The state of the art of practice guidelines development, dissemination, and evalution in Canada
• Disseminating research findings to professional and lay audiences: a case study
• Implementation of evidence-based indications for prevention of cardiovascular disease at a community level: an integrated project in the metropolitan area of Naples
• A rough guide to implementation: the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in Scotland
• Demonstrating evidence-based practice
• Effectiveness of cholesterol testing and treatment in primary prevention
• Developing cost effectiveness in guidelines
• Management strategies for peptic ulcer disease and Helicobacter pylori eradication
• Economic evaluation of lung transplantation: results and implementation
• Increasingly effective: a new resource to support effective communication with consumers
• Evidence-based patient choice: patients' and experts' views of patient information materials
• A population based study of patient treatment preferences for prostate cancer: early results from the Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT) Registry
• Prioritisation of varicose vein treatments - incorporating patient preferences
• Outcomes for assessing interventions to promote patient involvement in health care decisions
• Breast cancer screening: effective and efficient as well as efficacious
• Boer A.
• Are criteria to evaluate the appropriateness of performing colonoscopy evidence based?
• Computerized protocols for diagnostic test ordering: reliability, cost and patient satisfaction
• Evaluating diagnostic technologies: a review of strategies
• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
• Clinical practice guidelines in oncology: two guideline development programs in France and Canada
• The organization of health technology assessment in a European perspective
• Development of a quality standards on allergology for German physicians
• Evidence-based recommendations from the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) - past, present and future
• Developing, disseminating and implementing national evidence based guidelines for UK primary care: back pain as an example
• Evaluation of clinical guidelines for the management of end stage renal disease in Europe: the EU BIOMED 1 study
• Impact of an upper respiratory infection (URI) clinical guideline on costs and outcomes of care
• Innovative methods of evaluating implementation of the UK national breast referral guidelines for general practitioners: the BRIDGE study
• Implementing the evidence: developing theory, improving practice
• How are policy-makers using the evidence? Models of research utilisation in theory and practice
• The scientific basis of cancer care: the discrepancy between research priorities and research efforts
• From theory to practice: ethical challenges and limitations of evidence-based policymaking
• Making research make a difference II: disseminating and implementing R&D findings in a health service
• The role of evidence in population based health outcome assessments by health authorities
• Changing practice: encouraging the use of ECV for women with a breech presentation at term
• The implementation of clinically effective stroke services in the UK
• An educational package for the management of menorrhagia in the East Anglian region
• Applying research evidence in real life: using epidemiologists as change agents in hospitals
• What obstacles do general practitioners face in implementing guidelines for the management of depression?
• The progress of evidence-based healthcare in the National Health Service in England and Wales
• Critically appraising guidelines II: the quantity and quality of UK clinical guidelines for the management of asthma, coronary artery disease, breast cancer, lung cancer, and depression
• The implementation of clinical guidelines in an academic medical centre
• Implementing guidelines in an academic hospital
• Systematic review of the effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines for nurses and professions allied to medicine
• The present status of evidence based medicine (E.B.M.): how relevant is it for developing countries?
• Medico-legal issues related to mammographic screening
• From evidence to clinical guidelines in different countries: the case of spinal manipulation for acute low back pain
• ETIC and EMIC approaches to exploring concepts and experiences of psychological disorders
• Genetic discrimination today - the empirical evidence
• Evidence based medicine and economics: a case study of a systematic review of dialysis management
• A meta-analysis that wasn't because of inappropriate trial design and reporting
• Unreported trial amnesty
• Publication bias in statistical overview of trials: example of psychological rehabilitation following myocardial infarction
• Prevention of asthma admissions with steroids
• The effect of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for osteoporosis: a Cochrane systematic review
• Improving pharmaceutical use in primary care in developing countries: a critical review
• Intercessory prayer: a systematic review at the limits of the randomized controlled trial
• Analysing systematic reviews of different types of diagnostic studies
• Diagnostic value of digital rectal examination (DRE) for detection of prostate cancer: the influence of methodological characteristics on outcome
• Do endorphins mediate placebo analgesia in humans? A systematic review
• Methodological aspects of a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials of homeopathic treatment strategies
• Does blinding affect the results of meta-analyses?
• Delphi list: a consensus criteria list to assess trial quality
• Local sealed envelope randomisation in a multicentre trial: a cautionary tale
• Interpreting the outcomes of stroke rehabilitation trials
• Prevention of ankle ligament injuries
• Oxytocin vs Syntometrine in active management of the third stage of labour
• Efficacy of NSAISs for low-back pain: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials
• Systematic review of antifibrinolytic treatment in aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. A Cochrane Collaboration review
• The contribution of a Cochrane Centre towards "ensuring the accessibility" of Cochrane systematic reviews
• More good than harm: how well can Cochrane reviews help people decide?
• Chinese involvement in the Cochrane Collaboration
• Development of the Spanish Cochrane Collaboration (1995-1997)
• Variations between trials of the effect of chemotherapy: an exploratory analysis of the meta-analysis of chemotherapy in head and neck carcinoma data
• Measuring the effectiveness of medical rehabilitation: direct or indirect measurement of change?
• How to make the best use of published summary statistics in systematic reviews of survival data
• Individual patient data or published data meta-analysis: a systematic review
• A systematic review of the treatment of acute bronchitis/upper respiratory tract infection in the community
• A meta-analysis of colorectal cancer screening with fecal occult blood
• Analysis of randomized controlled trials on the effects of exercise training on the bone mass in pre- and post-menopausal women
• A systematic review of trials evaluating the effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems
• AEvaluation of the summary statistics used for meta-analyses using literature survival data oncology
• Issues and problems in rehabilitation reviews, and how these may be addressed
• Systematic reviews in nursing
• Experiences in running a field

Lectures:

• Health services research in a rapidly changing world
• Getting the evidence: what works?
• Evidence can be translated into guidelines without difficulties
• Evidence can be translated into guidelines without difficulties
• Health care practitioners will use these guidelines
• Health care practitiones will use guidelines as a matter of course
• Patient preferences will be naturally be considered and satisfied
• Patient preferences will naturally be considered and satisfied
• All health care problems can be subjected to scientific research
• Speaking against the proposition: all health care problems can be subjected to scientific research
• A perspective from basic science
• Evidence-based medicine and the Cochrane Collaboration in the year 2005
• The Cochrane Collaboration - state of affairs

Poster abstracts:

• Which literature retrieval method is most effective? Teaching the Index Medicus/Medline in post-graduate courses for family physicians
• Methodological aspects of randomized trials (RCTs) and controlled clinical trials (CCTs) concerning the treatment of suicide attempters
• Risperidone for schizophrenia - a systematic review
• Estimating sample size in randomised controlled trials where patients are clustered
• Surgery for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea
• Should a power analysis be included in a systematic review?
• The Systematic Reviews Training Unit: capacity building for the future
• A systematic review of treatment studies of patients who have attempted suicide
• Ultrasound therapy for musculoskeletal disorders: evaluating efficacy, setting priorities for research and for implementing the evidence
• The role of meta-analysis in assessing the scientific basis of lasers in medicine
• Treatments for plantar heel pain
• Dynamic exercise therapy in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Survival analysis used to estimate time to publication of reports of randomised controlled trials
• A systematic review of oral steroids in cystic fibrosis: statistical challenges
• Developing a checklist for assessing quality of clinical trials in psychiatry
• Identification of randomized clinical trials (RCT) in sarcoma
• A systematic review of multidisciplinary team care (MTC) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
• Comparison of holding chambers and nebulisers for beta-agonists in acute asthma, (a systematic review)
• Meta-analysis of ROC curves
• Residual confounding a criterion for assessing quality of randomized trials
• Metaanalysis of the perioperative prophylaxis of ceftriaxon versus other cepalosporins
• Meta-analysis of clinical trials with cyclophosphamide and cyclosporine A in MS patients
• Effectiveness of a diagnostic test: comparison of two methods of pooling data
• Chronic pain: systematic review of cognitive behavioural treatments
• Facing the Evidence-Based Medicine and Guidelines era: what is the role of the academic institutions?
• A comparison of MEDLINE, EMBASE AND CINAHL on searches for systematic reviews in respiratory health
• Systematic reviews of diagnostic tests - a new challenge for laboratory medicine
• A systematic review of RCTs to change the self-concept of children and adolescents
• A systematic review of RCTs of behavioural interventions to prevent children and adolescents smoking
• Combining GP and hospital care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) - a randomised controlled trial
• The chemical basis of pain and its management
• A strategy to maximise data retrieval
• Efficacy of physical exercises and gait training in patients with intermittent claudication
• Conservative treatment of stress incontinence in women: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials
• Drug treatment for scabies
• Epidemiology and critical appraisal of randomized controlled trials publsihed in the South African Medical Journal
• Rehabilitation and cross-over design: an evaluation on Medline and Embase
• Searching bibliographic databases: costs and benefits
• The return of the register: the UKCCCR Register of Cancer Trials
• Sorting the men from the boys? A systematic review of bone marrow and peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation for malignancy
• Looking for the evidence: is there bias in the publication of individual patient data meta-analyses?
• Software for making the best use of published summary statistics in systematic reviews of survival data
• Dependent observations in RCTs regarding carpal tunnel syndrome
• Quantifying heterogeneity in meta-analyses
• Critical review of meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials in hepatogastroenterology
• NSAIDS & osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review
• After MEDLINE? Dividend from other potential sources of randomised controlled trials
• Assessment of dialysis technology:- a Cochrane systematic review comparing bicarbonate with acetate haemodialysis in ESRD
• So, where is the evidence for neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia?
• Presenting meta-analysis as a typical 2 X 2 table
• Prevention of steroid-induced osteoporosis with bisphosphonates - a meta-analysis
• Identification of trials using electronic databases. Performance of MEDLINE and EMBASE for selected rheumatologic topics
• Diagnostic methods for maxillary sinusitis: a systematic review
• Meta-analyses of early postnatal dexamethsone (dx) for prevention of chronic lung disease (CLD)
• Placebo effect in the treatment of duodenal ulcer: the more placebos per day, the better the healing?
• What could be expected from systematic reviews on individual patient data? Examples from hypertension treatment
• Inter-reader variation
• Experiences from a prospective individual patient meta-analysis project: TAs-PP
• Differences between messages and recommendations
• The WHO Reproductive Health Library: disseminating effectiveness information in developing countries
• Pooling diagnostic publications: watch for outliers!
• How effective is teaching critical appraisal skills to healthcare professionals? A systematic review of the literature
• A meta-regression analysis of insulin and cardiovascular disease
• The importance of a systematic search strategy
• Blinded assessment of the methodological quality
• Proposal for a standard protocol for systematic reviews of treatment for back pain
• Physiotherapy for shoulder pain: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials
• Active management of the third stage of labour
• Use of the Comments and Criticisms Facility: Pilot experience with new systematic reviews
• Data extraction problems associated with RCTS of cross-over design assessing the effects of medical treatment for menorrhagia
• Clinical studies in German health care journals: publication quality and assessment
• Quality assessment of trials found within the scope of Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety & Neurosis Group
• The placebo effect dependent on time? - A meta-analysis
• How do we assess the impact of the CDSR: a protocol for discussion
• Statistical aspects of quality control of handsearching medical literature for identification of clinical trials
• Collaboration to identify controlled trials in general health care journals in Europe
• Prophylaxis using heparin, low molecular weight heparin and phsyical methods against venous thrombosis in hip fracture surgery
• The effectiveness of healthy community initiatives: a systematic overview of community based projects
• Transferring Public Health Nursing research to health system planning: assessing the relevance and accessibility of systematic reviews
• Quality improvement in parent-child reviews
• Searching for the evidence: source, time and yield
• Manipulating the type, timing and amount of input from reviewers with different expertise to reduce bias in systematic review: a case report
• A systematic overview of individual data from 100,000 patients in randomised trials: data management aspects
• Use of individual patient data vs. published reports in a meta-analysis: the case of ACE-inhibitors in myocardial infarction
• Univariate and multivariate prognostic indexes to evaluate treatment efficacy in a systematic overview
• ?N=1 ? RCT
• Antilibidinal managements of disorders of sexual preference and those who have been convicted of sexual offences
• Identification of clinical trials (CTs) conducted in Spain (1971-1995)
• Identification of health science publications in Spain (1971-1995)
• A report of handsearching Chinese neurological journals
• Prevention of asthma relapse with steroids
• Do antidepressants work in depression in physical illness?
• Should we continue to handsearch MEDLINE-indexed journals prospectively? Some up-to-date empirical evidence
• Interventions to reduce the incidence of falling in the elderly
• An overview of randomized controlled trials in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
• Hand searching of Finnish medical journals
• Using electronic searching to retrieve additional randomized controlled trials missed by full text searching
• Training and support; one region's views and needs
• Searching MEDLINE: publication type as prima facie evidence of study design
• Quick on the draw: producing a sound evidence base to a tight time scale
• Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia: using the evidence in a developing country
• Natural history of cervical dysplasia: a meta-analysis

"S" abstracts:

• Assessing assessment: the program "Ontwikkelingsgeneeskunde", 1989-1997
• Example 1: Elegant diagnosis: dementia syndrome
• Example 2: Elegant cooperation: bone marrow transplantation
• Excimer laser angioplasty versus balloon angioplasty for treatment of obstructive coronary artery disease
• Consensus conference in Europe
• Participatory research & research on participation