Cochrane Colloquium at Ottawa, 2004 - Scientific Presentations, Posters and Workshops

Oral Presentations

  • O-001 -
  • Communication skills training - Canadian breast cancer initiative experience
  • O-002 -
  • Can consumers improve the quality of Cochrane reviews?
  • O-003 -
  • Strategies to build a consumer network for the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group (CHMG)
  • O-004 -
  • Consumer involvement - overcoming the hurdles
  • O-005 -
  • How far away for consumers in developing countries involving in the Collaboration?--- The experience of the consumer work in China
  • O-006 -
  • Bridging the gaps across the income divide: A review of The Collaboration’s efforts to date and recommendations for the future
  • O-007 -
  • Development of Cochrane research synthesis in Thailand
  • O-008 -
  • International research collaboration and funding and the relevance of African randomised controlled trials
  • O-009 -
  • Detecting publication bias in systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy
  • O-010 -
  • By how much does publication bias affect the results of systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy?
  • O-011 -
  • Systematic review of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion scintigraphy for the diagnosis and management of angina and myocardial infarction
  • O-012 -
  • Design related bias and sources of variation in diagnostic accuracy studies
  • O-013 -
  • Survey of diagnostic test meta-analyses
  • O-014 -
  • The Policy Liaison Initiative: increasing usability of The Cochrane Library for policy makers
  • O-015 -
  • The good news: evidence of the dissemination and influence of Cochrane systematic reviews
  • O-016 -
  • Opening up the black box of bureaucracy: disseminating to and through policy networks
  • O-017 -
  • Effective collaboration between researchers and policy makers: examples from the Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group
  • O-018 -
  • Empowering change – experience of a pragmatic study
  • O-019 -
  • How systematic reviews/Cochrane reviews can inform guideline development and change practice
  • O-020 -
  • Synopses: proposal for a new format
  • O-021 -
  • The growing prominence of Cochrane systematic reviews in evidence-based resources
  • O-022 -
  • Bridging the information gap in Saskatchewan: Accessing and using The Cochrane Library province-wide
  • O-023 -
  • Explaining and performing common meta-analytic procedures in Japan: development of bilingual interactive software
  • O-024 -
  • Assessing the impact of information retrieval in postgraduate medical education
  • O-025 -
  • The Cochrane Collaboration’s new Information Management System: making it easier to do more
  • O-026 -
  • To screen or not to screen: the online opinion on prostate cancer screening
  • O-027 -
  • Availability of large-scale evidence on specific harms from systematic reviews of randomised trials
  • O-028 -
  • Reporting of harms in randomized trials of mental health interventions
  • O-029 -
  • Study of therapeutic variation in the ischemic stroke
  • O-030 -
  • Evidence-based practice (EBP) in rheumatology: present gaps, barriers, and facilitators
  • O-031 -
  • Type 1 diabetes in children – touching the void in research evidence
  • O-032 -
  • Identifying and filling the gaps in health promotion and public health research
  • O-033 -
  • Consumer priority survey: bridging the gap between producers and users of systematic reviews
  • O-034 -
  • Describing and quantifying the gap between proof and practice
  • O-035 -
  • Evidence for health policy: bridging the gap between researchers and decision makers (perspective from the who regional office for Europe)
  • O-036 -
  • Bridging gaps between Chinese reviewers and Cochrane review groups
  • O-037 -
  • Making the results of Cochrane reviews more accessible and friendly
  • O-038 -
  • The Ottawa Decision Support Framework as a tool to bridge the gap between evidence-based medicine and patient-centered medicine: preliminary results of an implementation study
  • O-039 -
  • What we don’t know about evidence and medical practice: Issues raised by Project ImpACT and lessons from the impact literature
  • O-040 -
  • Do clinical guidelines reduce the gap between evidence and practice? A before and after study of reported practice on EFM.
  • O-041 -
  • Promoting trial registration and protocol publication - perspectives from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
  • O-042 -
  • Use of an advisory group to ensure relevance: reflections on participation of stakeholders in a review of sexual health promotion for men who have sex with men (MSM)
  • O-043 -
  • C.H.A.I.N. Canada – Contact, Help, Advice & Information, Network: linking professions, organisations, researchers, practitioners and policy makers
  • O-044 -
  • Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of treatment and diagnosis from MEDLINE: an analytic survey
  • O-045 -
  • Development and implementation of evidenced-based medicine programs for a health insurance company in Brazil
  • O-046 -
  • Aluminium therapy in the prevention and treatment of silicosis: used for over 30 years in Canada but generally rejected elsewhere.
  • O-047 -
  • Random reflections on Archie Cochrane
  • O-048 -
  • Literature searching for systematic reviews and health technology assessments (HTAs): can one rule fit all?
  • O-049 -
  • Should diagnostic search filters be used in systematic reviews?
  • O-050 -
  • New web-enabled methods for article screening and data extraction
  • O-051 -
  • Indexing terms for different types of evidence in databases of relevance to public health
  • O-052 -
  • Developing efficient search strategies to identify papers on adverse events. B: using statistical analysis
  • O-053 -
  • Developing efficient search strategies to identify papers on adverse events. A: testing and precision sensitivity
  • O-054 -
  • Redesigning the Cochrane highly sensitive search strategy for identifying RCTs in MEDLINE using statistical analysis to improve sensitivity and precision
  • O-055 -
  • Trials reported as abstracts and full publications: how do they compare?
  • O-056 -
  • Including non-randomised studies in systematic reviews of vaccines safety: methodological issues
  • O-057 -
  • Totality of evidence: using indirect evidence to bridge the gaps
  • O-058 -
  • Narrative synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence: an analysis of tools and techniques
  • O-059 -
  • Exercise treatment for work-relevant neck pain: does the body-of-literature used for a qualitative synthesis of trial results differ according to methodological quality assessment approach?
  • O-060 -
  • Early extreme contradictory estimates in published research
  • O-061 -
  • Sponsorship, bias and methodology: Cochrane reviews compared with paper-based meta-analyses of the same drugs
  • O-062 -
  • Impact of duplicate publication in a meta-analysis of off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
  • O-063 -
  • Comparison of selection models in meta-analysis
  • O-064 -
  • Bayesian approaches to meta-epidemiology
  • O-065 -
  • Sample size calculations for meta-epidemiological studies
  • O-066 -
  • Dealing with heterogeneity in treatment implementation: an example from music therapy in psychiatry
  • O-067 -
  • Evidence-based sensitivity analyses for systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • O-068 -
  • Guidance for the systematic review of economic evidence
  • O-069 -
  • Should we update Cochrane reviews every two years? A methodological study
  • O-070 -
  • Spreading good ideas for improving health services: a systematic review of the literature across 11 disciplinary traditions
  • O-071 -
  • Genetic risk factors for complex diseases: race is not important
  • O-072 -
  • Methodological quality and treatment effects in randomised trials: a review of six empirical studies
  • O-073 -
  • Use of the USA food and drug administration web site for clinical trial information from approved therapies
  • O-074 -
  • How often does unclear allocation concealment in randomised trials reflect inadequate reporting of adequate methods?
  • O-075 -
  • Multivariate modelling for meta-epidemiological assessment of the association between trial quality and apparent treatment effects in randomised clinical trials
  • O-076 -
  • Methodological quality of randomised controlled trials in paediatric oncology published in 2001 and 2002
  • O-077 -
  • Methodological quality of randomized controlled intervention trials of spinal disorders
  • O-078 -
  • Designing a trial protocol on the basis of the findings of Cochrane reviews – the IMPLEMEG study
  • O-079 -
  • Impact of scoring the quality of clinical trials in result of meta-analysis
  • O-080 -
  • Selective reporting of results in government-funded randomised trials
  • O-081 -
  • Findings of clinical research cannot be predicted in advance: an empirical study of cancer trials
  • O-082 -
  • Early evidence from meta-analyses of genetic risk factors is unreliable
  • O-083 -
  • Quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy studies
  • O-084 -
  • Methodological quality of accepted and rejected papers submitted to three leading biomedical journals
  • O-085 -
  • A look inside the black box: a description of the editorial process at three leading biomedical journals
  • O-086 -
  • A review of tools for assessing the quality of qualitative studies: implications for systematic reviews
  • O-087 -
  • What systematic reviews gain when they include qualitative research: a systematic review of qualitative work on workplace-based return to work practices
  • O-088 -
  • A challenging mixed literature review experience
  • O-089 -
  • HIV health promotion and men who have sex with men (MSM): a systematic review integrating ‘qualitative’ studies and trials.
  • O-090 -
  • Graded grains make finer findings: appraising the quality of a wide range of research methods
  • O-091 -
  • Bridging the gap between research results and decision making in clinical practice: common problems in the development and use of a national Electronic Library of Health Care

    Poster Abstracts

  • P-001 -
  • Promoting and sustaining use of insecticide-treated bednets in a rural community
  • P-002 -
  • International activity within collaborative review groups
  • P-003 -
  • Are trial size and reported methodological quality associated with treatment effects? Observational study of 523 randomised trials
  • P-004 -
  • Effectiveness of opiate maintenance therapies: an overview of systematic reviews
  • P-005 -
  • Survey of plain film radiography protocols taught at chiropractic schools for acute low-back pain
  • P-006 -
  • Trends in use and costs of lumbar and full spine radiography by chiropractors in Ontario: a review of Ontario Health Insurance Plan and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board data from 1994 to 2001
  • P-007 -
  • Initiating and maintaining physical activity for persons with type 2 diabetes
  • P-008 -
  • Home versus centre based physical activity programs in older adults
  • P-009 -
  • Comparative efficacy and safety of long-term oral anticoagulation for vascular events
  • P-010 -
  • Force platform feedback for standing balance training after stroke
  • P-011 -
  • Introducing US family physicians to Cochrane reviews
  • P-012 -
  • Assessing methodological quality in a large research literature: the case of distance education comparison studies
  • P-013 -
  • Bayesian meta-analysis for quantifying treatment benefit of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in neonates
  • P-014 -
  • Searching for trials - bridging the gaps
  • P-015 -
  • The Cochrane Library on Wiley InterScience
  • P-016 -
  • What is the study design?
  • P-017 -
  • The Ottawa panel Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines (EBCPGs) for rehabilitation interventions in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA)
  • P-018 -
  • Turbidimetric d-dimer in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a meta-analysis
  • P-019 -
  • Moving toward a rigorous search filter in health promotion & public health
  • P-020 -
  • Comparison of single versus double data extraction: a pilot study
  • P-021 -
  • Bridging the gap from research to practice: the emergence of a community of practice in EBM at the department of family medicine at Laval university
  • P-022 -
  • The International Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes Database (IQOD). Reference values of the PGWBI on 8536 subjects
  • P-023 -
  • Teaching evidence-based medicine (EBM) in China
  • P-024 -
  • Patching for corneal abrasion: the need for a systematic review to resolve uncertainty about this widely used, simple intervention for a common condition
  • P-025 -
  • Bridging the gaps between prediction and prevention of pre-eclampsia: systematic reviews of accuracy and effectiveness literature with economic modelling
  • P-026 -
  • Is it necessary to perform full text papers selection by two independent reviewers in systematic reviews on diagnostic accuracy?
  • P-027 -
  • Which Review Group does this title belong to?
  • P-028 -
  • Elimination of lymphatic filariasis: systematic review evidence
  • P-029 -
  • Clinician understanding of and attitudes towards evidence-based medicine in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
  • P-030 -
  • Designing and validating an online survey to measure understanding and attitudes toward evidence-based medicine among clinicians
  • P-031 -
  • Methods for assessing the sustained use of research evidence in practice
  • P-032 -
  • A Cochrane Collaboration systematic review of melanoma incidence in randomized controlled trials of lipid-lowering agents
  • P-033 -
  • Bridging the gap between systematic reviews and clinical guidelines
  • P-033 -
  • Bridging the gap between systematic reviews and clinical guidelines
  • P-033 -
  • The gap between Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews: dietary supplements for the treatment of essential hypertension in adults
  • P-033 -
  • The gap between Cochrane and non-Cochrane reviews: dietary supplements for the treatment of essential hypertension in adults
  • P-035 -
  • High Quality Evidence in ENT – Where are the RCTs?
  • P-036 -
  • Bridging the gaps between evidence-based and experience-based medicine in a Swiss Cochrane Symposium
  • P-037 -
  • The effectiveness of peer-based interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality among HIV positive women
  • P-038 -
  • Transformation of meaning perspectives in clients with rheumatoid arthritis
  • P-039 -
  • Do we need to consider ‘in process citations’ for search strategies?
  • P-040 -
  • The quality of Cochrane synopses – a quality assessment pilot project
  • P-041 -
  • Searching for intervention studies in gastroenterology: surprisingly low incremental benefit of Embase
  • P-042 -
  • HIV and progressive resistive exercise: a Cochrane Collaboration systematic review
  • P-043 -
  • Comparison of the Cochrane Neonatal Group systematic reviews and Danish guidelines for newborns
  • P-044 -
  • The size of the gap between research evidence and clinical practise: questionnaire survey on treatment of patients with liver disease
  • P-045 -
  • Supporting advanced contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration in Australasia: bridging the gaps in training and support
  • P-046 -
  • Cluster randomized trial of an active, multifaceted information dissemination intervention based on The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) to change obstetric practices
  • P-047 -
  • Conservative management of mechanical neck disorders: a series of systematic reviews
  • P-048 -
  • Consumer training – is it valuable and worthwhile?
  • P-049 -
  • What(ch) evidence! Drawing on the actor-network theory for an exploration of the dynamic struggle of the Cochrane Collaboration to build bridges between research results and clinical practice
  • P-050 -
  • Elaboration and sharing of generic search strategy modules in the development of oncology evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
  • P-051 -
  • Keeping data up-to-date during the development of clinical practice guidelines – example of first-line palliative chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
  • P-052 -
  • Non-antiepileptic drugs for trigeminal neuralgia
  • P-053 -
  • Considered jugdement in evidence-based guidelines development
  • P-054 -
  • Testing the equivalence of anti-fibrinolytic drugs to reduce bleeding in cardiac surgery - contrasting frequentist and Bayesian approaches
  • P-055 -
  • Risk of serious upper gastrointestinal complications with NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors
  • P-056 -
  • ‘Best practice’ in editorial and organisational processes of Collaborative Review Groups (on behalf of QAG)
  • P-057 -
  • How different are conference abstracts of surgical RCTs from the subsequent full publication?
  • P-058 -
  • What do you mean? Collated consumer feedback on Cochrane reviews and protocols on topics in pregnancy
  • P-059 -
  • Testing the success of blinding in randomised clinical trials
  • P-060 -
  • Global estimates of brain drain and deficit
  • P-061 -
  • Does it matter which version of Medline you search?
  • P-062 -
  • Guidelines for systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions
  • P-063 -
  • Rationale for the preparation of a vaccines library
  • P-064 -
  • Traditional Chinese interventions for stable angina
  • P-065 -
  • Chinese herb medicine for the pregnancy-induced hypertension
  • P-066 -
  • Developing methodology for validation and comparison of surrogate markers in randomized clinical trials
  • P-067 -
  • Validity of Health Technology Assessements(HTA)
  • P-068 -
  • Structural analysis of health technology assessements (HTA) demonstrates the need for standardized assessment of transparency, applicability and consistency (TAC criteria)
  • P-069 -
  • Screening and the utility of textual analysis software: a retrospective study of RefVizTM
  • P-070 -
  • Application of GRADE in hematological malignancy: watchful waiting vs. immediate systemic treatment in indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
  • P-071 -
  • Using Cochrane reviews for patient-centred information on the management of low-back pain
  • P-072 -
  • Classification of FEE studies in NHS EED according to ICD-10 category
  • P-073 -
  • Constrains of conducting a Cochrane review in a resource limited setting
  • P-074 -
  • Quality of reporting of systematic reviews and its affect on estimates of intervention effectiveness
  • P-075 -
  • Screening programmes for the early detection and prevention of oral cancer
  • P-076 -
  • Do evidence-based guidelines bridge the gaps in research?
  • P-077 -
  • Closing the gap - identifying reports of randomized trials in EMBASE for inclusion in CENTRAL
  • P-078 -
  • Quantifying the evidence gap in stroke rehabilitation
  • P-079 -
  • Occupational therapy for problems in activities of daily living after stroke
  • P-080 -
  • Lay health workers in primary care and community health: a systematic review
  • P-081 -
  • Methodological issues from peer reviewed Chinese systematic reviews
  • P-082 -
  • “Do the conclusions look as good as they seem?” A review of quality improvement intervention studies
  • P-083 -
  • Initiation of medical specialist training and admittance system in China
  • P-084 -
  • End-stage health service in China: current situation, problems and strategies
  • P-085 -
  • Dan Shen agents for acute ischaemic stroke
  • P-086 -
  • Gaps between Chinese stroke trials and the principle of the Cochrane review in outcome assessment
  • P-087 -
  • Striving for relevance: helping ensure that Cochrane systematic reviews meet the information needs of researchers, clinical practitioners and patients in cancer
  • P-088 -
  • Design and validation of a questionnaire for the detection of major depression in older patients
  • P-089 -
  • Synthesizing evidence about emerging diagnostic technologies for practice and policy – mind the gap!
  • P-090 -
  • Cochrane Style Guide
  • P-091 -
  • Systematic review of monoamine oxidase B inhibitors versus control in early parkinson’s disease
  • P-092 -
  • Physiotherapeutic interventions in cerebral palsy: effectiveness and current practice
  • P-093 -
  • Treatment of heterogeneity in systematic reviews of diagnostic tests in cancer
  • P-094 -
  • Cochrane reviews of complementary and alternative therapies: evaluating the strength of the evidence
  • P-095 -
  • Effectiveness of fluoride toothpastes in reducing dental caries and inequalities in dental caries levels
  • P-096 -
  • Data maturity and systematic reviews of new health technologies
  • P-097 -
  • The diabetogenic potential of thiazide diuretics and beta-blocker combinations in the management of hypertension
  • P-098 -
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of perinatal outcomes of in vitro fertilization singletons
  • P-099 -
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of perinatal outcomes of in vitro fertilization twins
  • P-100 -
  • A Cochrane registry has multiple functions
  • P-101 -
  • Copy Edit Support
  • P-102 -
  • Barriers to participating in an HIV vaccine trial: a systematic review of qualitative studies
  • P-103 -
  • Assessing methodological quality of primary studies and applying results in the cochrane reviews. An evaluation of the drugs and alcohol group’s reviews.
  • P-104 -
  • Japanese Brazilian psychiatric out-patients in Japan and in Brazil: profile of those remaining and those returning
  • P-105 -
  • Cumulative meta-analysis to determine key milestones in the Life Cycle of Evidence in Cancer Care (LIFE CYCLE-ECC)
  • P-106 -
  • Partecipasalute (www.partecipasalute.it) : a pilot project aimed at empowering consumers and patients’ associations to participate in health care decisions
  • P-107 -
  • Interactive health communication applications for patients with chronic disease
  • P-108 -
  • The clinical efficacy of psychological interventions in breast cancer patients: a report of three meta-analyses
  • P-109 -
  • The public, the internet, and the media are the bridge between producers and users
  • P-110 -
  • Chinese traditional medicine “Dan Shen” compound for acute myocardial infarction
  • P-111 -
  • Health related quality of life measured by SF-36 for adults with diabetes: a meta-analysis
  • P-112 -
  • The output of a Masters of Science course in systematic Cochrane reviews
  • P-113 -
  • The effectiveness and safety of late erythropoietin in reducing exposure to donor blood in preterm infants: a meta-analysis
  • P-114 -
  • First line malaria treatment in Africa: evidence, policy and practice
  • P-115 -
  • Effectiveness of primary care nurses using guidelines in middle and low–income countries
  • P-116 -
  • Addressing the information needs of the lay reader: how much is enough?
  • P-117 -
  • How often do positive conclusions drawn from meta-analyses remain substantiated if only data from randomised trials with adequate allocation concealment are considered?
  • P-118 -
  • Bispectral index for improving anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery
  • P-119 -
  • Promoting access to Cochrane Collaboration outputs in developing countries: the possible role of post-graduate distance education
  • P-120 -
  • Using e-mail for identifying unpublished and ongoing clinical trials and those published in non-indexed journals
  • P-121 -
  • Out of sight - out of mind? How to let consumers participate from all over the world.
  • P-122 -
  • Using the adjusted indirect comparison in a Health Technology Assessment (HTA): clopidogrel versus modified-release dipyridamole
  • P-123 -
  • How to design clinical trials to assess health equity effectiveness?
  • P-124 -
  • Comparison of acute and chronic airway diseases in the Cochrane Library: implications for clinicians and researchers
  • P-125 -
  • Inhaled anticholinergics in the treatment of adult acute asthma
  • P-126 -
  • Metformin for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analyses
  • P-127 -
  • Creating an optimal search strategy for occupational health intervention studies
  • P-128 -
  • Optimizing search strategies to identify randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE
  • P-129 -
  • Cochrane web template project - what is needed?
  • P-130 -
  • Work conditioning, work hardening and functional restoration for workers with back and neck pain (Cochrane Review)
  • P-131 -
  • Author self-classification of conference proceeding abstracts
  • P-132 -
  • Effects of a training program on the efficiency of the use of online information retrieval technology: a cohort study
  • P-133 -
  • Determining the causes of apparent life threatening events (ALTEs)
  • P-134 -
  • Blood pressure increasing effect of sibutramine in obese patients
  • P-135 -
  • Systematic review of depression in developing countries
  • P-136 -
  • Does the use of policies and procedures promote evidence-based nursing practice?
  • P-137 -
  • The effect of sucrose as an analgesic for newborn infants undergoing painful procedures
  • P-138 -
  • Current situation, problem and countermeasures of municipal public health system: a view of evidence-based medicine
  • P-139 -
  • Vinca alkaloid containing regimen for advanced breast cancer
  • P-140 -
  • Application of evidence-based medicine to drug policy making in China
  • P-141 -
  • Drug treatment on 680 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): a view of evidence-based medicine
  • P-142 -
  • Methods to involve medical students from developing countries in Cochrane systematic reviews (CSRs): preliminary experiences from China
  • P-143 -
  • A huge challenge: traditional Chinese medicine vs Cochrane systematic review
  • P-144 -
  • Training reviewers in China
  • P-145 -
  • Contribution of EMBASE search in meta-analyses of diagnostic studies
  • P-146 -
  • Randomized trials of neurosurgical interventions: a systematic appraisal
  • P-147 -
  • To sum or not to sum: assessing the methodological quality of primary studies in public health
  • P-148 -
  • Imputing summary statistics for meta-analysis of continuous data
  • P-149 -
  • Building up a disease-specific trials register in hemato-oncology: experiences from a project of the Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group (CHMG)
  • P-150 -
  • Comparison of large versus smaller randomized trials for mental health related interventions
  • P-151 -
  • Diagnostic studies and Cochrane systematic reviews: incompatible entities? What we can learn from a diagnostic RCT in vascular surgery
  • P-152 -
  • Psychological management of procedure-related pain and distress in children
  • P-153 -
  • Adverse events and adverse effects in systematic reviews: some methodological issues
  • P-154 -
  • Filling the gap in “the body of knowledge” as to the local treatment of poorly healing wounds
  • P-155 -
  • Further research is needed?
  • P-156 -
  • Combined psychotherapy plus benzodiazepines for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia
  • P-157 -
  • Chinese medicinal herbs for acute bronchitis
  • P-158 -
  • An investigation on the quality of randomized controlled trials in 11 non–key medical journals of traditional Chinese medicine from 1995 to 2000
  • P-159 -
  • Scoring the quality of diagnostic accuracy studies: an example using QUADAS
  • P-160 -
  • What to do with non 2x2 data from a diagnostic systematic review? An example from a review on identifying the seizure focus in patients with epilepsy
  • P-161 -
  • The Cochrane Collaboration in the English-language news
  • P-162 -
  • The development in attitudes towards thromboprophylaxis in Danish surgical departments during a twenty year period
  • P-163 -
  • Specialist digital libraries - helping to facilitate the use of Cochrane Reviews
  • P-164 -
  • Asthma self-management educational interventions versus usual care for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 controlled trials with 3304 patients
  • P-165 -
  • A half day interactive workshop in systematic review and the Cochrane Collaboration: a University of Toronto site group initiative
  • P-166 -
  • A combined database for meta-epidemiological research: characteristics of included trials
  • P-167 -
  • Trends in reported allocation concealment in RCTs included in systematic reviews
  • P-168 -
  • Chinese medicinal herbs for influenza
  • P-169 -
  • Collagenase for intervertebral-disk-herniation
  • P-170 -
  • Dissemination evidence by journals: making the medical journals as readable, reliable and accessible information resource for consumers
  • P-171 -
  • The effect of Chinese herbs combined western medicine for SARS treatment: a systematic review
  • P-172 -
  • A survey on medical students’ perception, attitude toward evidence-based medicine in a medical school in Taiwan
  • P-173 -
  • Measuring the gaps between Cochrane reviews and practice recommendations: the example of cost B13 European guidelines for low-back pain
  • P-174 -
  • A preliminary investigation on the psychological health status of SARS patients in the Chinese medical journals
  • P-175 -
  • Applicability and clinical relevance of results in randomised controlled trials. The Cochrane review on exercise therapy for low back pain as an example
  • P-176 -
  • Reporting quality of randomized controlled trials of botanical medicines
  • P-177 -
  • Nutritional interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV infected individuals
  • P-178 -
  • Using Cochrane reviews to develop consumer information - choosing and presenting outcomes
  • P-179 -
  • Cochrane Neurological Network--Bridging the Gaps

    Workshop Abstracts

  • W-001 -
  • Discover research and The Cochrane Collaboration: A consumer event
  • W-002 -
  • IMS training workshop for administrative staff at centres, the Consumer Network, fields and methods groups I
  • W-003 -
  • IMS training workshop for administrative staff at centres, the Consumer Network, fields and methods groups II
  • W-004 -
  • Making sense of scientific evidence: a workshop for consumers and individuals collaborating with consumers
  • W-005 -
  • An international campaign to promote academic medicine
  • W-006 -
  • An introduction to evaluating systematic reviews
  • W-007 -
  • An introduction to meta-regression
  • W-008 -
  • Basics of meta-analysis
  • W-009 -
  • Bibliographic software: Reference Manager (introductory)
  • W-010 -
  • Bridging the gaps of the editorial process
  • W-011 -
  • Childhood obesity: bridging the gap between evidence and action
  • W-012 -
  • Consumers in research: understanding the results of Cochrane reviews from a consumer perspective
  • W-013 -
  • Developing dissemination strategies for systematic reviews
  • W-014 -
  • Evidence-based surgery and The Cochrane Collaboration
  • W-015 -
  • Exploiting discordant reviews to learn about proper methodology for systematic reviews
  • W-016 -
  • How to make Cochrane consumer synopses more informative and ensure consistent quality
  • W-017 -
  • Improving your chances of getting a paper published in an indexed journal
  • W-018 -
  • IMS Demonstration Workshop
  • W-019 -
  • Introduction to qualitative research
  • W-020 -
  • Introduction to systematic reviews of diagnostic and screening tests
  • W-021 -
  • Investigating and dealing with bias in systematic reviews
  • W-022 -
  • Judging the scientific quality or accuracy of medical, nursing and consumer web sites
  • W-023 -
  • Meta-analysis of continuous data
  • W-024 -
  • Prospective meta-analysis
  • W-025 -
  • Quality of allocation concealment (advanced)
  • W-026 -
  • Systematic reviewing complex interventions
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  • Tackling the challenges of preparing systematic reviews of complementary and alternative medicine interventions: acupuncture as an example
  • W-028 -
  • The Cochrane Library: using the new interface (introductory)
  • W-029 -
  • Training the trainers: sharing training needs and experiences in qualitative research methods
  • W-030 -
  • Workshop for Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators (intermediate)
  • W-031 -
  • Writing to impart knowledge through the use of Clear Writing principles
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  • Your entity`s web site: New resources you can use
  • W-033 -
  • A framework for involving clinical stakeholders in the systematic review process
  • W-034 -
  • An out-reach workshop
  • W-035 -
  • Challenging barriers to evidence-based health care: bridging the language and cultural gap
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  • Composite endpoints
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  • Consumers in research: enhancing confidence in commenting on reviews for consumers
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  • Development of consumer synopses/summaries: a workshop for consumers and people collaborating with consumers
  • W-039 -
  • Economic evaluation, systematic reviews and introduction to NHS Economic evaluation database.
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  • Effective collaboration between Collaborative Review Groups and policy makers
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  • Exploring new web-enabled methods for article screening and data extraction
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  • Guidelines for systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions
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  • Identifying controlled trial reports (introductory)
  • W-044 -
  • Identifying gaps in prehospital care
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  • Improving the reporting of randomized trials - perspectives from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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  • IMS training workshop for Collaborative Review Groups I
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  • IMS training workshop for Collaborative Review Groups II
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  • Incorporating data on adverse effects in systematic reviews
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  • Introduction to meta-analysis using Stata
  • W-050 -
  • Looking inside the black box of knowledge transfer and exchange
  • W-051 -
  • Mediation skills
  • W-052 -
  • Meta-narrative mapping - a new approach to the synthesis of complex evidence
  • W-053 -
  • Minimising your own biases: a workshop for EBM enthusiasts
  • W-054 -
  • Statistical methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic tests
  • W-055 -
  • Systematic reviews of studies of prognosis - an exploratory discussion
  • W-056 -
  • The Cochrane Library: training the trainers
  • W-057 -
  • The role of non-randomised studies in the world of systematic reviews
  • W-058 -
  • To IPD or not IPD: what are the advantages and disadvantages of systematic reviews that use individual patient data
  • W-059 -
  • Training the trainers: Techniques for running Cochrane training workshops
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  • Transforming systematic review evidence into patient decision aids: new international standards
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  • Using the media to disseminate the findings of systematic reviews
  • W-063 -
  • Workshop for Cochrane Trials Search Co-ordinators (advanced)
  • W-064 -
  • Another gap, another bridge? Should The Cochrane Collaboration do systematic reviews of evidence for pretest probability?
  • W-065 -
  • Bayesian statistics in meta-analysis and meta-regression
  • W-066 -
  • Bibliographic software: Reference Manager (advanced)
  • W-067 -
  • Challenges for Co-ordinating Editors
  • W-068 -
  • Effective use of bibliographic software in systematic reviews
  • W-069 -
  • Grading evidence and recommendations
  • W-070 -
  • Hitting the Headlines: how to assess the evidence behind newspaper reports about health care
  • W-071 -
  • How to summarize and link Cochrane reviews to electronic guidelines
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  • How to use Health-Related Quality of Life outcomes in Cochrane reviews
  • W-073 -
  • How useful are Cochrane reviews to primary care physicians?
  • W-074 -
  • Identifying controlled trial reports (advanced)
  • W-075 -
  • MS training workshop for Collaborative Review Groups III
  • W-076 -
  • Indirect comparisons and subgroup analyses in systematic reviews
  • W-077 -
  • Making The Cochrane Library available to all
  • W-078 -
  • Metagraphiti: statistical graphics for user-friendly interpretation and presentation of meta-analysis data
  • W-079 -
  • Peer reviewing systematic reviews
  • W-080 -
  • Practical methods for incorporating time-to-event data into Cochrane reviews: a hands-on workshop
  • W-081 -
  • Quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews
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  • Strategies for handling missing data in meta-analysis
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  • Systematic reviews of qualitative studies: Heresy or necessity
  • W-084 -
  • The Cochrane Library: using the new interface (advanced)
  • W-085 -
  • Using multidisciplinary advisory groups in reviews: how might it work in practice?
  • W-086 -
  • When untested therapies become accepted practice: evidence-based medicine and consumers
  • W-087 -
  • You say tomato: raising awareness of differences in English around the world
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  • Fundraising - What you need to know to get started