Oral presentations:

• Characteristics of meta-analyses submitted to a general medical journal
• Quality assurance of Cochrane systematic review abstracts; a comparison with abstracts published in evidence-based medicine
• Quality of Cochrane systematic review abstracts; readability and comparison with handbook guidelines
• Ovarian ablation in breast cancer: 1948-1998, the 50 year journey from randomised trial to Cochrane Review
• Task analysis of systematic reviewing: implications for electronic trial reporting
• Consumer needs for medicines information: a role for Cochrane?
• Realities of practice: engaging parents and general practitioners in developing clinical practice guidelines
• Qualitative/quantitative descriptors of risk and benefit of hormone replacement therapy
• Consumer representation on the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group
• Cochrane Airways reviews: can they make a difference?
• Gender-specific information in published reports of clinical trials of drug therapy for myocardial infarction: a call for structured reporting of gender
• Grading articles and grading evidence: issues for evidence-based practice activities
• Collecting systematic review data
• Impact of quality items on study outcome: treatments in acute lateral ankle sprains
• 50 Years of randomised controlled trials relevant to the care of schizophrenia: 2000 studies, 18 outcomes, 670 rating scales
• Are health authority policy and commissioning decisions evidence-based?
• A randomized trial of the preference of gastroenterologists for a Cochrane review versus traditional reviews
• Dissemination and use of research evidence for policy and practice: a framework for developing, implementing and evaluating strategies
• Methodological quality of practice guidelines produced by scientific society: a need for improvement?
• Using systematically synthesised evidence to inform the funding of new clinical trials - the UK Medical Research Council approach
• Approaches to applicability in the recent literature
• Meta-analysis of case-series: graphical methods for selecting functional forms of exposed factors and model
• Much ado about nothing: statistical methods for meta-analysis with rare events
• Effect of length of follow-up on meta-analysis
• Maximizing retrieval of relevant studies: the Potential Source Study Classification System
• Identifying randomized controlled trials in conference proceedings abstracts
• 50 Years of reporting of randomised controlled trials in general health care journals worldwide: how things have changed
• Searching LILACS database improves systematic reviews

Poster abstracts:

• Effect sizes for continuous data: original metric versus standardized differences
• Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses are misleading
• Nedocromil sodium as treatment of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction: a comparison of results from a meta-analysis with individual patient data
• Individual patient data meta-analysis with time-to-event outcomes
• Guidelines for reporting adverse effects in clinical trials should be improved - lessons from acute pain
• Another decision to evaluate: choice of standardized mean difference effect size estimator
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• A comparison of checked versus unchecked individual patient data (IPD)
• Comparison of four methods for meta-analysis of survival data
• Repeated measures meta-analysis of clinical trials
• Including interrupted time series (ITS) designs in systematic reviews
• Pseudo-trials: a method to explore the effect model
• Supporting carers of people with Alzheimer's disease: the qualitative challenge
• Design characteristics and performance of diagnostic tests. A systematic review on the value of tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA) in the diagnosis of lung cancer
• Survival curve and hazard ratio program (SCHARP) for meta-anaysis of individual patient data
• Graphical plots for investigating heterogeneity in meta-analysis
• Concordance of data between conference abstracts and full reports
• Do certain countries produce only positive results?
• Systematic reviews in heart diseases: blind spots and duplication
• The effect of information framing on the practices of physicians: a systematic review of the literature
• Evaluation of literature on the toxicity of Chinese herbal medicines
• Randomized controlled trials in the leading Chinese internal medical journals
• Finding evidence for alternative medicine in cancer: a systematic review
• Computed vs. effective intercoder reliability for systematic reviews
• Reviewing the reviews: the evidence base of contemporary medicine is weak
• Does the language of publication of reports of randomized trials influence the estimates of intervention effectiveness reported in meta-analyses?
• Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
• Use of Cochrane Library in consensus conference on childhood asthma
• Evaluating population-based interventions and translating evidence into action: overview of methods for the development of the guide to community preventive services
• Evidence For evidence-based policy
• Survey of knowledge of evidence-based medicine among clinicians in China
• Spreading the word about public health research: the Public Health Effectiveness Project
• Beyond the systematic review: an example of a pilot decision analysis
• The Editorial Subgroup of the Cochrane Collaboration's Steering Group
• An quality assurance program evaluating prescription for tardive dyskinesia in French psychiatric hospitals: integration of Cochrane systematic reviews as an evidence-based reference
• Production, local adaptation and implementation of practice guidelines using evidence-based approaches: the collaboration between Emilia Romagna Regional Agency and the Italian Cochrane Centre
• A systematic review on the impact of mass media on health services utilisation
• Disseminating results of systematic reviews through a TV show in Brazil
• A pilot project to create partnerships between academic and professional organizations to produce and disseminate systematic reviews
• Translating the Cochrane Library into Spanish
• Development of a centralized trials registry for research on HIV/AIDS prevention, intervention, and treatment: issues and considerations
• Critical appraisal criteria for clinical guidelines in Germany. - A project of the German Medical Association (GMA) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (NASH3P)
• Which coding system for therapeutic information
• Assessing the quality of economic studies of health care-searching for an ideal instrument
• Quality assessment of trials found within the scope of Cochrane Collaboration Depression, Anxiety & Neurosis (CCDAN)
• Randomized controlled trials relevant to viral hepatitis in the Chinese literature
• A systematic review of the quality of homeopathic clinical trials
• Can systematic reviews provide the evidence needed for making regulatory decisions? An FDA's statistician's perspective
• Randomized controlled trials in "Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases" - a handsearching of 1983~1997
• A multifile search of five bibliographic databases for stroke trials
• A World Wide Web interface for the UKCCCR Register Of Cancer Trials
• Descriptive analysis of current levels of Cochrane Collaboration hand search activities
• Development of an optimal search strategy for the retrieval of controlled trials using PubMed
• Reports of controlled trials from EMBASE: an important contribution to The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register
• Are you searching the right database? An example from mental health
• An interactive hypertext database of synoptic summaries of cardiovascular clinical trials
• Developing the specialised register for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group (EPOC)
• Identifying non-randomised studies in Medline
• Collecting the trials in depression, anxiety & neurosis - what's the point?
• Improving retrieval of clinical trials in the LILACS database
• Identification and description of the clinical trials published in Spanish journals of general and internal medicine during the period 1971-1995
• Identifying RCTs in MEDLINE by publication type and through the Cochrane Strategy: the case in hypertension
• An electronic data repository of randomized controlled trials for the treatment of depressive disorders
• Antidepressants for the treatment of bulimia nervosa (BN)
• A systematic review of magnesium sulfate in the treatment of acute exacerbations of asthma
• A systematic review of nedocromil sodium in the prophylactic treatment of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
• Does psychiatric depression worsen cardiovascular outcome after myocardial infarction? A systematic review
• Antidepressants versus psychtherapy for the treatment of bulimia nervosa (BN)
• An evaluation of interventions to reduce the use of tobacco products
• A challenge to accepted wisdom: systematic review of 35 Years of cholera vaccine trials
• Comparing preventive strategies in hypertension: risk prediction or blood pressure level? Insight from a meta-analysis based on individual patient data
• Fluoride therapy to prevent postmenopausal osteoporosis
• Moderate-term, low dose corticosteroids for rheumatoid arthritis
• Alendronate for prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
• Associated factors with abdominal aortic aneurysm: a systematic review of literature
• Meta-analyses of placebo controlled trials of disease-modifying antirrheumatic drugs (DMARDS) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
• The straight leg raising test: meta-analysis of the diagnostic accuracy in radiculopathy
• Cochrane systematic reviews: data representation beyond RevMan
• Comprehensive Meta Analysis - a computer program
• Beta-test of a software program designed to facilitate systematic research reviews
• The Dyspepsia Trials Collaborators' Group