Oral presenttions:

• D.I.C.E. therapy: an overview of the randomised trials
• Database searching in manual medicine
• Selecting the language of the publications included in a meta-analysis: is there a Tower of Babel bias?
• Failure to conceal treatment allocation schedules in controlled trials influences estimates of treatment effects
• No magic bullets: a systematic overview of 102 trials of interventions to help health care professionals deliver services more effectively or efficiently
• An evaluation of large studies and meta-analyses of smaller studies
• A critical appraisal of meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials - a cardiovascular perspective
• Accuracy of case-finding instruments for depression: a meta-analysis
• How to access RCTs in Japan through network access from abroad
• RTMAS: a computerized system for the "real-time" construction of meta-analyses using pre-extracted data from randomized control trial databases
• Manipulating the evidence? - A critical review of review articles on the effectiveness of spinal manipulation
• A systematic overview of the effectiveness of audit and feedback to improve health care provider performance
• Implementing the findings from systematic overviews: has information on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of SSRIs changed practice?
• You can't save lives unless there are people dying: implications of heterogeneity of control rates in clinical trials and meta-analyses
• A strategy to promote research-based nursing care: effects on childbirth outcomes
• Conservative management of mechanical neck disorders
• The evaluation of treatment effectiveness in sub-fertility - an international collaboration
• Purchasers and cost-effectiveness of interventions: are secondary economic evaluations possible?

Poster abstracts:

• Do benzodiazepines work? A meta-analysis ordeal
• The administration of intravenous immunoglobulin for prophylaxis or treatment in preterm infants: meta-analyses
• A proposed methodology for assessing the effectiveness of geriatric services
• Therapy by physicians to stop tobacco smoking: assessment of the quality of trials
• Qualitative meta-analyses: improvement of markers for validity and precision
• Methodological quality of randomized clinical trials on treatment efficacy in low back pain
• On the accuracy of history, physical examination and erythrocyte sedimentation rate in diagnosing low-back pain in general practice. A criteria-based review of the literature
• The efficacy of back schools: a review of randomized clinical trials
• The efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for shoulder complaints. A blinded review
• Evolving methodological guidelines for systematic reviews of randomized control trials in health care
• The efficacy of aldose reductase inhibitors in the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy: a meta-analysis
• Diagnostic validity of clinical tests in temporomandibular disorders: a meta-analysis
• How can systematic reviews of randomised trials be used for assessment of cost-effectiveness of surfactant treatment for neonatal respiratory distress?
• Can brief interventions reduce alcohol consumption in drinkers at risk of alcohol related harm? A meta-analysis of clinical trials
• Community health interventions: are they effective?
• Cost-effectiveness in health care: results of a systematic review
• A method to aggregate results of trials with heterogeneous treatment modalities: a rheumatology example
• An experience of retrieving clinical trials on the drug therapy in acute ischemic stroke using the Japanese medical database
• A method for allocating evidence in meta-analyses
• Interventions to enhance patient adherence to medication prescriptions
• When should an effective treatment be recommended for use? Quantitative derivation of the threshold NNT
• Generalising the results of clinical trials
• The International Collaborative Group on Clinical Trial Registries: aims and achievements
• Clinical trial registries and ethics review boards: the results of a survey by the Fichtre Project
• Trial summary report software and database specifications and preliminary results
• Development of a database of studies examining methodologies used in controlled trials and systematic reviews
• Systematic review of the effectiveness of injury control interventions in children
• Economic evaluations in the intensive care literature: do they help us solve our financial problems?