Cochrane Colloquium at Melbourne, 2005 - Scientific Presentations, Posters and Workshops

Oral presentations

  • O-01
  • Performance of published search strategies for studies of diagnostic test accuracy (SDTAs) in Medline and Embase
  • O-02
  • Does the STARD-statement improve the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies?
  • O-03
  • Reappraisal of the nested case-control design in diagnostic research: updating the STARD guideline
  • O-04
  • The accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: a diagnostic systematic review carried out according to new Cochrane methods
  • O-05
  • Follow-up or change scores: does it matter which outcome is used in meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials?
  • O-06
  • Individual-patient data meta-analysis (IPD MA) in the presence of competing risks
  • O-07
  • Methodology of subgroup analyses used in individual patient data meta-analyses versus meta-analyses on published data
  • O-08
  • Exploring the effect of patient characteristics on effectiveness using a combination of individual subject and aggregate level data
  • O-09
  • Use of evidence in economic decision models: an appraisal of health technology assessments in the UK since 1997
  • O-10
  • How do you get the biggest bang for your (limited) buck in depression management? Making sense of complex cost effectiveness data using systematic reviews and the permutation matrix
  • O-11
  • Exploring the variability in cost-effectiveness results within multicountry clinical trials
  • O-12
  • Generalising the results of economic evaluations (EE) from high-income to middle-income countries
  • O-13
  • Facilitative role of Fields: case study of topic prioritisation and reviewer support for production of global health promotion and public health review priorities
  • O-14
  • Project SEA-ORCHID: South East Asia - Optimising Reproductive and Child Health in Developing Countries
  • O-15
  • The South Asian Cochrane Network: supporting reviewers in South Asia and contributing to the global Cochrane agenda
  • O-16
  • Identifying trials, or possible trials, conducted in low and middle income countries
  • O-17
  • 'Spring-cleaning' of Cochrane reviews and clinical guidelines in order to co-ordinate Cochrane reviews and clinical practice
  • O-18
  • Overviews of overviews (OoO): how to summarise and grade the evidence?
  • O-19
  • Assessing the body of evidence and grading recommendations in evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
  • O-20
  • Implementing best practice guidelines through computerized decision support: providing meaningful tools for cardiovascular risk and diabetes management
  • O-21
  • Constraints on academic freedom in industry-initiated clinical trials
  • O-22
  • Is it dangerous to publish reviews in paper journals?
  • O-23
  • Disseminating scientifically sound, clinically relevant literature in the web era: the relevance and newsworthiness of Cochrane reviews
  • O-24
  • Can the impact of an erroneous review be corrected?
  • O-25
  • Meta-analysis of studies of diagnostic accuracy: a unified approach
  • O-26
  • An empirical comparison of methods for meta-analysis of studies of diagnostic accuracy
  • O-27
  • Bivariate meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity in diagnostic reviews
  • O-28
  • Statistical methods for investigating heterogeneity related to methodological quality in meta-analyses of studies of diagnostic accuracy
  • O-29
  • Non-randomized study designs in U.S. Evidence Practice Center reports
  • O-30
  • Limiting systematic reviews to RCTs can impose profound bias: the case of cesarean versus vaginal birth
  • O-31
  • Should non-randomised studies be included in reviews of interventions for vulnerable groups: a case study from domestic violence research?
  • O-32
  • Re-assessing and revising 'levels of evidence' in the critical appraisal process
  • O-33
  • Trials reported in abstracts: the need for a mini-CONSORT
  • O-34
  • Publication bias: is it also present in the secondary literature
  • O-35
  • Country development and publication bias: a review of published studies
  • O-36
  • Cumulative meta-analysis to determine key milestones in the Life Cycle of Evidence in Cancer Care (LIFE CYCLE)
  • O-37
  • Stopping early should be a methodologic quality criterion for Cochrane reviews
  • O-38
  • High proportion of high quality randomized clinical trials conducted by the NCI are negative or inconclusive
  • O-39
  • PARIS Collaboration: antiplatelets to prevent pre-eclampsia. A review using individual patient data
  • O-40
  • Terminology of herbal medicine used in systematic reviews: standardizing or confusing?
  • O-41
  • Translating evidence into patient information: challenges and possible solutions when extracting and presenting the results of Cochrane reviews
  • O-42
  • The effect of alternative graphical displays to present benefits of antibiotics for sore throat on helping people to make treatment choices consistent with their own values
  • O-43
  • Invitations to mammography screening: basis for an informed consent?
  • O-44
  • Converting odds ratio to risk difference to aid decision making
  • O-45
  • A Community of Practice Implementing Evidence
  • O-46
  • STEPP: Supporting Translation of Evidence into Policy and Practice
  • O-47
  • Encouraging and supporting Australian policy makers to use Cochrane reviews: what have we learnt so far?
  • O-48
  • EPOC activities and Australian health policy
  • O-49
  • How to determine the best treatment: a mixed-treatment-comparisons meta-analysis (MTM) of trials of topical fluoride therapies for the prevention of dental caries
  • O-50
  • Mixed treatment comparison analysis of 7 treatments for acute myocardial infarction
  • O-51
  • A modified test for small study effects in meta-analyses of controlled trials with binary endpoints
  • O-52
  • Evidence based sample size calculations for future trials based on meta-analyses
  • O-53
  • A better gold pan: capturing RCTs with more precision
  • O-54
  • Disentangling the data: variations in data submissions from different players and their potential impact on a systematic review
  • O-55
  • Mapping trials: the HIV/AIDS trials register leads the way to GIS Mapping
  • O-56
  • Searching for systematic reviews of adverse effects
  • O-57
  • Unknown knowns: use of Cochrane review results in designing new studies
  • O-58
  • Involving clinical stakeholders in the systematic review process: exercises for low back pain
  • O-59
  • Making connections: knowledge brokering to bring systematic reviews to public health practice
  • O-60
  • Sources of knowledge in clinical practice and knowledge of evidence based medicine in postgraduate medical students and faculty members
  • O-61
  • Evidenced-based medicine (EBM) program for a health plan in Brazil: coverage criteria for new technology-based interventions: an update
  • O-62
  • Role of Cochrane systematic reviews in health technology assessment in Argentina
  • O-63
  • Use of systematic reviews in clinical practice guidelines: case study of development of clinical practice guideline by a professional organization in Indonesia
  • O-64
  • Making the resources of the Cochrane Collaboration 'of, by and for the people': a developing country perspective
  • O-65
  • How can consumer input be integrated into the systematic review process?
  • O-66
  • Informed consumers as drivers of evidence based medicine: a trial
  • O-67
  • Patient mediated interventions to increase adoption of evidence: aids and barriers to an intervention in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • O-68
  • Quality improvement and evidence-based decision making on problems of communication with patients and their families in hospitals
  • O-69
  • Inter-reviewer agreement: an analysis of the degree to which agreement occurs when using tools for the appraisal, extraction and meta-synthesis of qualitative research findings
  • O-70
  • Integrating 'qualitative' studies and trials in reviews: reflections from reviews about teenage pregnancy, parenthood and social exclusion
  • O-71
  • Healthy work environments: the experience of conducting a series of comprehensive systematic reviews, including the review of qualitative research and non-research data
  • O-72
  • A priority-setting mechanism for national evidence-based consumer health information: the criteria and their application to Cochrane reviews

    Poster abstracts

  • P-001
  • International activity within Collaborative Review Groups
  • P-002
  • QUADAS: early experience with a new methodological scoring tool for diagnostic meta-analyses
  • P-003
  • Lacking evidence for patient preference effects in clinical trials with parallel randomized and observational arms
  • P-004
  • Coping with surgeon's doubts on negative meta-analyses: the case of the EU Hernia Trialists
  • P-005
  • Understanding the relationship between risks and odds ratios
  • P-006
  • Methodological quality of randomised controlled trials of Chinese medicinal herbs for treating influenza
  • P-007
  • How Wiley have developed media coverage of Cochrane Library reviews within the international press
  • P-008
  • What do patients and physicians want at the point of care? Preliminary surveys in China
  • P-009
  • The evidence for nursing interventions in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • P-010
  • An examination of the impact of different types of trial materials included in the Cochrane reviews of interventions for treating distal radial fracture in adults
  • P-011
  • Effect of teaching evidence-based medicine in medical postgraduates
  • P-012
  • Issues in analyses of behavioural change in a systematic review
  • P-013
  • Evidence-based medicine developments in Peking University in China
  • P-014
  • Using the Medical Research Council framework for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of complex interventions to identify and develop strategies to promote effective professional practice
  • P-015
  • A bivariate meta-analysis of sensitivity and specificity: accuracy of maternal serum human choriongonadotrophin (MShCG) determination in the prediction of pre-eclampsia
  • P-016
  • Thai Cochrane Network contribution on handsearching
  • P-017
  • Incorporating methodological quality in meta-analyses of diagnostic accuracy studies
  • P-018
  • Working in partnership with people in the developing world
  • P-019
  • Designing and implementing a Latin-American clinical trials registry (LATINREC)
  • P-020
  • Contribution of checking reference lists to systematic reviews
  • P-021
  • African Trials Register: 5 years later, where are we now?
  • P-022
  • Handsearching for 'buried' randomized trials in Bahrain medical journals
  • P-023
  • Assessing comparative cost-effectiveness for selection of essential drugs in China: an evidence-based approach
  • P-024
  • Preliminary study of citation rates of reviews of interventions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • P-025
  • Evidence for the effectiveness of occupational health interventions
  • P-026
  • Anticipating policy makers' needs: moving toward health intelligence at WHO/Europe
  • P-027
  • Economic impact of an evidence based assessment of bone densitometry in a private health plan in Brazil
  • P-028
  • Responses to a systematic review
  • P-029
  • Distraction from randomisation in diagnostic research
  • P-030
  • Quality analysis of literatures on clinical randomized controlled trial of pre-eclampsia treated with TCM
  • P-031
  • Actual usage of the Cochrane Library in teaching hospitals in Australia
  • P-032
  • Ethics and the evidence in medical school education: melding outpatient medical ethics with training in evidence-based medicine
  • P-033
  • Case-control and two-gate designs in diagnostic accuracy studies
  • P-034
  • Partial and differential verification in diagnostic accuracy studies
  • P-035
  • Mapping the Cochrane evidence for decision-making in health care
  • P-036
  • Comparing a 'lay' systematic review with a Cochrane protocol (submitted, not published) on the subject of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ) and heart failure
  • P-037
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) diagnosis: a systematic review and the effect of publication bias
  • P-038
  • Is it reasonable to pool different estimates of intervention effect calculated from different methods?
  • P-039
  • The role of student scholarships in Cochrane reviews
  • P-040
  • The importance of context: how can evidence-based knowledge best be presented to clinicians in the mental health field?
  • P-041
  • The rising importance of Cochrane systematic reviews in a Latin-American evidence-based journal
  • P-042
  • Investigation for randomisation procedure of Chinese original studies
  • P-043
  • Bibliometric analyses along cumulative meta-analyses: the Life Cycle of Evidence in Cancer Care (LIFE CYCLE)
  • P-044
  • Assessing the quality of randomized controlled trials evaluating nonpharmacological treatments: a CheckList to Evaluate A Report of NonPharmacological Trial (CLEAR NPT)
  • P-045
  • Assessing the success of blinding in randomized controlled trials
  • P-046
  • Reporting of harm in randomized controlled trials evaluating pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments
  • P-047
  • Taxonomy of occupational health interventions could be helpful for reviewers
  • P-048
  • Software for handsearching control and management of randomized and clinical controlled trials
  • P-049
  • Self care interventions: which outcomes are important to consumers?
  • P-050
  • DEC-NET: the European register of clinical trials on medicines for children
  • P-051
  • Quality analysis of randomized controlled trials on Chinese medicinal herbs for unstable angina pectoris
  • P-052
  • Guidelines for systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions: evaluating their use in practice
  • P-053
  • The experience of introducing a new drug into the hospital
  • P-054
  • Most health web sites are inaccessible, unusable and unreliable: a call for action
  • P-055
  • To what extent are conference abstracts reporting randomised controlled trials of skin diseases published subsequently?
  • P-056
  • HIV/AIDS and oral candidiasis: what really works?
  • P-057
  • A shortcut for developing evidence based pregnancy guidelines by adapting already existing ones to local constraints in Belgium
  • P-058
  • The use of Cochrane abstracts on PDAs at the point-of-care: effect on clinical behavior
  • P-059
  • The EBM OSCE to assess skills of information mastery and use of best evidence
  • P-060
  • Optimal retrieval of HIV/AIDS conference proceeding abstracts: a comparison of databases
  • P-061
  • Improving our quality by developing the HIV/AIDS Specialized Register: experiences and lessons from the inaugural Cochrane Collaboration Visiting Fellowship
  • P-062
  • The interobserver reliability in the assessment of methodological quality of RCTs and CCTs in the addiction field
  • P-063
  • Comparison of NNT statistics, impact numbers and epidemiological effect measures
  • P-064
  • HIV/AIDS reviewer mentoring programme for South Asia
  • P-065
  • Conducting a broad organisational systematic review (SR): examining the effect of sensory environments on health-related outcomes of hospital patients
  • P-066
  • Most accessed Cochrane reviews in The Cochrane Library and most accessed review abstracts on www.cochrane.org
  • P-067
  • Analysing and presenting results from systematic reviews of complex interventions
  • P-068
  • The Cochrane Dementia Group's Register of trials: a unique resource for dementia specialists
  • P-069
  • RCTs for policy interventions? A review of reviews
  • P-070
  • Graphical presentation of diagnostic information: a methodological review
  • P-071
  • Testing approaches to searching for public health reviews
  • P-072
  • Potential for impact of Cochrane-style systematic reviews in the field of veterinary public health
  • P-073
  • Using systematic review methods to assess the evidence on performance of measurement instruments in wound care
  • P-074
  • Development of a search strategy to identify evaluations of the performance of wound measurement instruments
  • P-075
  • Transformation of summary statistics from a skewed distribution into summary statistics on the log scale
  • P-076
  • Adjustment for covariates in non-randomized studies: propensity score based methods vs classical regression models
  • P-077
  • Why a Cochrane Diet and Nutrition Sub-Field?
  • P-078
  • Mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing: challenges of incorporating interrupted time series analysis
  • P-079
  • Inclusion criteria for systematic reviews: what is the most valid approach?
  • P-080
  • A simplified search strategy for identifying randomised controlled trials for systematic reviews of health care interventions: a comparison with more exhaustive strategies
  • P-081
  • Health Policy Integrating with Systematic Reviews
  • P-082
  • Increasing specificity in searches of PubMed for health promotion and public health studies: a prospective study
  • P-083
  • Are they doing what it says on the packet? Towards an implementation fidelity index for use in systematic reviews
  • P-084
  • Reporting of the role of the expert searcher in Cochrane reviews
  • P-085
  • Evidence review: evaluating Health Technology Assessment searches
  • P-086
  • Analytical validity of molecular techniques for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer: a systematic review
  • P-087
  • Psychosocial implications of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer: a systematic review
  • P-088
  • A systematic review of physical tests used in the diagnosis of shoulder impingement: a Cochrane experience
  • P-089
  • Development of a new prioritization method for health technology assessment
  • P-090
  • How long does it take to publish a high quality trial in oncology?
  • P-091
  • Case study on comprehensive searching in the area of overcrowding in emergency departments
  • P-092
  • Transferability of evidence based information driven by Clinical Evidence (CE) through an Italian continuing education programme on the web: a qualitative study
  • P-093
  • Can we trust the conclusion in peer-review publications? A review of quality improvement intervention studies
  • P-094
  • Exploring language barriers to evidence based medicine: is it different to read a Cochrane review abstract in English or in Spanish for Chilean post graduate medical students?
  • P-095
  • Clinical teachers' attitudes towards the efficacy of evidence-based medicine workshop and self-reported ability in evidence-based practice in Iran
  • P-096
  • An holistic research design for Integrative Medicine (IM)
  • P-097
  • Study settings of Cochrane HIV/AIDS systematic reviews
  • P-098
  • Reducing duplication: an example of collaboration between Guideline developers and Cochrane Collaborative Review Groups
  • P-099
  • Evidence in social welfare: challenges and some possible solutions
  • P-100
  • Cochrane Review Initiative Project (CRIP)
  • P-101
  • Analyzing the quality of clinical randomized control trial of Traditional Chinese Medicine for coronary heart disease (CHD)
  • P-102
  • Should sensitivities derived from 2x1 tables be included in diagnostic systematic reviews: a review of systematic reviews
  • P-103
  • Level of evidence in evidence-based guidelines in colorectal surgery
  • P-104
  • Efficacy of short courses of critical appraisal on the skills and attitude of postgraduate medical students
  • P-105
  • Accuracy of the Spanish translated conclusions of Cochrane systematic reviews
  • P-106
  • Meta-analyses and systematic reviews of quality of life outcomes: preliminary results and work in progress
  • P-107
  • Staff and consumer perceptions of research in mental health settings
  • P-108
  • Handsearching for health promotion and public health trials and systematic reviews
  • P-109
  • Calculating standardised mean differences from cluster randomised trials using published sources
  • P-110
  • What are the barriers preventing authors from reading written instructions?
  • P-111
  • Endometrial ablation for heavy menstrual bleeding: the relationship between funding sources and trial outcome
  • P-112
  • Is timing important in systematic reviews of interventions for breast cancer?
  • P-113
  • Developing an overview of systematic reviews: a framework for synthesising the evidence on interventions to improve communication with, and ensure the participation of, consumers in health care
  • P-114
  • Prospective collaborative meta-analysis of trials of weight management interventions in childhood overweight and obesity
  • P-115
  • Evidence-based change: a 'how-to' guide from the Health for Kids team
  • P-116
  • Use of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews by Chilean residents: impact and barriers
  • P-117
  • How do Cochrane reviewers handle sparse data in their systematic reviews?
  • P-118
  • Can summarising trials of public health strategies by camparator design improve interpretation?
  • P-119
  • Ten years of handsearching in Germany: results and future prospects
  • P-120
  • Occupational health Cochrane systematic reviews: an overview
  • P-121
  • Peer review and editorial decision-making at major biomedical journals
  • P-122
  • Priorities, publication and progress in reviewing treatment for peripheral nerve disorders
  • P-123
  • Putting Africa first: supporting novice authors of HIV/AIDS reviews in Africa
  • P-124
  • What can The Cochrane Collaboration do to support people living in developing countries? A survey
  • P-125
  • Changes in knowledge and utilisation of the Cochrane Collaboration by primary health care workers in Argentina from 2002 to 2005
  • P-126
  • From complex systematic reviews to clear effective clinical pathways: interpreting the evidence for primary and secondary prevention of osteoporotic fracture into a clinical guideline algorithm
  • P-127
  • From many to one: converting different databases into an XML database
  • P-128
  • Guideline development and Cochrane reviews part 1
  • P-129
  • Guideline development and Cochrane reviews part 2
  • P-130
  • Does a training in evidence based clinical psychology improve skills in evidence based clinical psychology?
  • P-131
  • Mapping the terrain: searching for cancer systematic reviews for the Cancer Specialist Library
  • P-132
  • Finding the gold: identifying good quality systematic reviews for the Cancer Specialist Library
  • P-133
  • Agreeing to disagree: an analysis of the responses to critical appraisal questions in postgraduate students
  • P-134
  • Cochrane and nursing: are needs being met?
  • P-135
  • Comparison of test performance of liquid-based versus conventional Pap smears to detect cervical cancer precursors
  • P-136
  • Trial sequential analyses of six Cochrane neonatal group meta-analyses considering adequacy of allocation concealment
  • P-137
  • Trends in methodological quality of randomised clinical trials in low back pain: comparing drug trials with non-drug trials
  • P-138
  • Overview and reanalysis of systematic reviews on invasive strategies for acute coronary syndromes
  • P-139
  • The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)
  • P-140
  • Trial sequential analyses of six meta-analyses considering heterogeneity and trial weight
  • P-141
  • Heterogeneity sample size correction factor for meta-analyses
  • P-142
  • Guideline development and Cochrane reviews: criteria and principles for selecting systematic reviews to answer guideline clinical questions
  • P-143
  • How relevant is the choice of the outcome in meta-analyses using relative risk as summary statistic?
  • P-144
  • Knowledge transfer at the Public Health Agency of Canada
  • P-145
  • Should there be Cochrane reviews of disease aetiology? A discussion poster
  • P-146
  • Checking important journals for important trials: does this make sense?
  • P-147
  • The use of non-randomized studies in the Cochrane reviews on drugs and alcohol
  • P-148
  • How is the networking around the world?
  • P-149
  • How much published data is usable for meta-analysis in aetiological research?
  • P-150
  • The global reach of The Cochrane Library: six months of usage statistics on Wiley InterScience
  • P-151
  • Impact of Cochrane systematic reviews of public health interventions for physical activity
  • P-152
  • The 'MIX' program: free software for learning, teaching and exploring meta-analysis with Excel
  • P-153
  • Quality assessment in systematic reviews of prognosis: descriptive analysis, development and testing of new recommendations
  • P-154
  • The Cochrane Library used in education: www.peditop.com
  • P-155
  • The multiplicity problem in systematic reviews
  • P-156
  • Editorial strategy for revising Cochrane reviews: does it help?
  • P-157
  • Frequency and characteristics of new evidence found in Clinical Evidence updates
  • P-158
  • Country of affiliation for the authors of an international evidence-based healthcare publication: an evaluation of Clinical Evidence
  • P-159
  • Survey of the use of Cochrane Style Guide guidance in published Cochrane reviews
  • P-160
  • Quality of systematic reviews used to build guidelines on prevention and treatment of breast and colorectal cancers
  • P-161
  • The value of Cochrane reviews in the clinical practice of university-based surgeons in a developing country
  • P-162
  • The need to collaborate for updating systematic reviews
  • P-163
  • How accessible is the Cochrane Library for health professionals with little or no previous knowledge of the site?
  • P-164
  • Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE)
  • P-165
  • Economic evaluations of prenatal screening for trisomy 21: a systematic review of the methodogology
  • P-166
  • How do authors respond to written requests for additional information?
  • P-167
  • Ask the author? Does it make a difference to quality assessment?
  • P-168
  • Systematic reviews of knowledge translation interventions: contributions of process evaluations and contact with authors
  • P-169
  • What happens when you take the Cochrane methodology and apply it to non-clinical literature?
  • P-170
  • Case report of a satellite effort: The Denver Satellite of the Cochrane Skin Group
  • P-171
  • Use of Evidence-based nursing (EBN) by nurses in Belgium
  • P-172
  • The equivalence or non-inferiority problem in systematic reviews
  • P-173
  • A tale of four review groups
  • P-174
  • Finding full text copies of randomised trials, or possible randomised trials, from low and middle income countries
  • P-175
  • Evidence based audit in oncology: analyses of three health plans in Brazil
  • P-176
  • Economic impact of an evidence based approach to tumor marker requests in a health plan in Brazil
  • P-177
  • Distal pancreatectomy: a randomized controlled trial to compare two different surgical techniques
  • P-178
  • Building a specialized register of behavioral medicine interventions
  • P-179
  • Behavioral medicine: providing another perspective of trial methodologies
  • P-180
  • Assessing the quality of information recorded on trial registries (TR)
  • P-181
  • Do province-wide access to The cochrane Library and training sessions make a difference?
  • P-182
  • Pre-specifying sample size calculations and statistical analyses in randomised trials: comparison of protocols to publications
  • P-183
  • How should clinicians and policy makers implement case management for depression? Using meta-regression to open up the black box of a complex intervention
  • P-184
  • The impact of including CBA and ITS designs in Cochrane reviews
  • P-185
  • Canadian Cochrane Centre Education and Training Project 2004-05
  • P-186
  • Training handsearchers: going from a paper to a web-based course
  • P-187
  • Systematic reviews of economic data: preliminary steps in an emerging methodology
  • P-188
  • The use of evidence based medicine in promoting the social acceptance of family planning in the Philippines
  • P-189
  • Evidence based medicine in the curriculum in medical schools in South East Asia
  • P-190
  • Reporting on the quality of randomised controlled trials in prehospital care
  • P-191
  • Four systematic reviews per day: the epidemiology of research synthesis

    Workshop abstracts

  • W-01
  • Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies 1: An introduction to formulating the study question and identifying eligible studies
  • W-02
  • Selecting the best treatment: the role of multiple treatments meta-analysis in Cochrane reviews
  • W-03
  • Methods for synthesising qualitative data
  • W-04
  • Systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions
  • W-05
  • An introduction to literature searching for systematic reviews
  • W-06
  • Using ProCite for creating and submitting trials databases to CENTRAL
  • W-07
  • The Cochrane Library hands-on introduction
  • W-08
  • Synthesising economic evaluations from different countries: challenges for Cochrane reviewers
  • W-09
  • The language of evidence
  • W-10
  • Educational strategies to build capacity in the generation and implementation of evidence in developing countries: the SEA-ORCHID Project
  • W-11
  • A systematic approach to involving consumers in the review process
  • W-12
  • Technical editing part II
  • W-13
  • Investigating and dealing with bias in systematic reviews
  • W-14
  • Narratives of evidence-based health care
  • W-15
  • Entity web sites: a hands-on workshop to lighten your site maintenance work
  • W-16
  • Utilising Cochrane reviews in clinical guideline development
  • W-17
  • Train the trainers: techniques for training systematic reviewers
  • W-18
  • Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies 2: Assessment of methodological quality
  • W-19
  • Software for computing treatment effects, performing meta-analyses, and creating forest plots
  • W-20
  • Introduction to meta-analysis using Stata
  • W-21
  • Individual patient data meta-analyses
  • W-22
  • Issues in preparing systematic reviews of complementary and alternative medicine therapies
  • W-23
  • Using the findings of 'views' studies to explore the findings of effectiveness studies in systematic reviews
  • W-24
  • Systematic reviews of studies of prognosis: activation of a Prognosis Review Network
  • W-25
  • The Cochrane Library: hands-on advanced searching
  • W-26
  • Authoring and editing reviews through the new Cochrane Information Management System: an introductory workshop for review authors and editors
  • W-27
  • Grading Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE): an international working group
  • W-28
  • Critical appraisal skills for consumers: understanding the evidence using an online course
  • W-29
  • Workshop for Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators (intermediate)
  • W-30
  • Peer reviewing systematic reviews
  • W-31
  • Evidence overviews: prioritising areas for overviews of systematic reviews
  • W-32
  • Lessons on integrating economic evidence into Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • W-33
  • Meta-analysis of continuous data
  • W-34
  • Cochrane EPOC methods: complex interventions and non randomised studies
  • W-35
  • Incorporating data on adverse effects in systematic reviews
  • W-36
  • Workshop for Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators (advanced)
  • W-37
  • Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies 3: A practical introduction to meta-analysis
  • W-38
  • Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies 4: Advanced meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance: investigating heterogeneity and comparing tests
  • W-39
  • Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy studies 5: Applying the results in clinical practice
  • W-40
  • Basics of meta-analysis
  • W-41
  • An introduction to meta-regression
  • W-42
  • Extracting data for a systematic review of non-randomised studies
  • W-43
  • How to interpret patient-reported outcomes in Cochrane reviews
  • W-44
  • MeerKat - getting the most out of your study-based Specialized Register
  • W-45
  • Determining study design classification of potential trial reports using MEDLINE abstracts as examples
  • W-46
  • Applying house style to Cochrane reviews using the Cochrane Style Guide and Review Manager&&Applying house style to Cochrane reviews using the Cochrane Style Guide and Review Manager (for review authors)
  • W-47
  • Addressing dilemmas and conflicting interests faced by Cochrane reviewers
  • W-48
  • Engaging health promotion and public health practitioners and policy makers through summary tables of the findings of Cochrane reviews
  • W-49
  • Hone your skills as consumer referees for Cochrane reviews
  • W-50
  • Managing the editorial process: an advanced workshop for Cochrane Review Group Super Users in Phase 2 of the Cochrane Information Management System
  • W-51
  • Promoting uptake: using the web to disseminate reviews to parents and public health decision makers
  • W-52
  • Ways to ensure evidence-based clinical practice guidelines are of high quality
  • W-53
  • Minding the qualitative and feeling the width: identifying qualitative research for inclusion in systematic reviews
  • W-54
  • Practical methods for incorporating time-to-event data into Cochrane reviews: a hands-on workshop