Oral presentations:

• A Systematic Analysis of Process Evaluations
• Demonstration of DIPEX: A Database of Individual Patient Experiences
• Experiences Of A Consumer
• Consumer Involvement in the Interpretation, Dissemination and Implementation of the Results of Systematic Reviews: 4 Collaborative Review Group Perspectives.
• How Should We Interpret Updated Meta-analyses?
• Factors Affecting the Interpretation of Meta-analysis
• Incorporating number of events as estimated from the Kaplan Meier curves in a literature based meta-analysis: When the going gets tough, should we get going?
• Calculation of Numbers Needed to Treat from Systematic Reviews. Point estimate and Confidence Intervals compared using six different methods.
• Is the Standardised Mean Difference a suitable Measure of Treatment Effect?
• Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Studies
• Travelling to the tropics? How to enrich a systematic review with good observational evidence about adverse effects
• Observational and qualitative research: increasing a review's relevance to practitioners and consumers
• Methodological Quality of Non-Randomized Intervention Studies
• Meta-Analysis of Non-Experimental Studies: A Review of Possible Applications in Environmental Health
• Internal validity of estimates of effectiveness from non-randomised studies
• Use of non-randomised evidence in Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) group's reviews
• Inclusion of observational studies in systematic reviews
• What Happens When the Evidence Is Not There?: The Contribution of Systematic Review Methodology to Future Research
• Research Implications From Cochrane Reviews - what happens to them?
• Ranking Outcome Variables and Comparing the Design of Eligible Studies with Current Standard of Care: Two Steps Towards Assessing Relevance of Existing Research
• Systematic'reviews in the development of evidence based guidelines
• Neonatal Systematic Reviews and their Effect on Clinical Practice in NSW (Australia)
• Bringing Narrative Evidence 'into the Fold': Methods for Generalizing from Individual Narrative Data
• REDUCTION IN USE OF HUMAN ALBUMIN: WHO MEDIATED THE CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO WHAT?
• Detecting and Adjusting for Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: A Systematic Review
• Evaluation of the Impact of Grey Literature on Meta-Analysis.
• The Cochrane Stroke Group's Specialised Register of Trials: A Comprehensive and Unique Resource for Reviewers
• Use Of The World-Wide-Web To Identify Unpublished Evidence For Systematic Reviews - The Future Role Of The Internet To Improve Information Identification
• Bias In Meta-Analysis Due To Within Study Selective Reporting
• Differences between Information Provided in Abstracts of Randomized Controlled Trials in Neonates Submitted to the Annual Meeting of the American Pediatric Society and the Society for Pediatric Research (APS/SPR) and Final Publications - Implications for Meta-analyses.
• Consumers' roles in topics identification In systematic reviews
• How public agencies prioritize for systematic reviews: the UK experience
• How are the topics of Cochrane reviews decided?
• Meta-analysis of qualitative and quantitative study evidence
• How policy makers and researchers disappoint each other: can systematic reviews avoid this history?
• Priority setting for reviews and economic analyses at the World Health Organisation
• How accurate are abstracts and how can we Improve their accuracy?
• Clarifying the abstracts of systematic reviews
• How can we make reporting of systematic reviews more valuable for users?
• How can we Improve the way we do systematic reviews?
• Are systematic reviews In danger of amplifying the unimportant questions? The case of dermatology
• A waste of time? What can or cannot be gained from systematic reviews when the available research is of questionable quality
• The One World Alliance: ensuring relevance to countries with developing economies
• Relevance In action: how can Cochrane reviews meet consumers' needs?
• Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Information in Reviews
• Publicity of data as an ethical obligation to patients and society
• How Glaxo Wellcome contributes to the avoidance of publication bias
• Integrated reviews: an Industry based approach
• The effects of duplicate publication and publication bias on systematic reviews
• Pharmaceutical Industry sponsorship of research: Independence or Interference?
• Bad examples of Interference In the conduct and publication of clinical research
• The public sector and the Cochrane Collaboration: potential and problems In the partnerships, and traps for young players
• Funding support for ensuring that Cochrane Reviews are up to date and correct
• Priority setting for review topics in the Cochrane Review Groups.
• Consumers Setting Priorities for Cochrane Review Groups
• Systematic Reviews: Taking up the Qualitative Challenge.
• Should we Review Single Interventions or All Comparators in a Decision-Making Context?
• Should The Topics Of Cochrane Reviews Be Prioritised?
• How to Involve Consumers in Cochrane Reviews?
• A Systematic Review of Prophylactic Mastectomy
• Consumer Representation in Complementary Medicine

Poster abstracts:

• Use of the Cochrane Library in Medical Libraries in the United Kingdom.
• Training U.K. Librarians to Use the Cochrane Library: Has it Impacted on Usage of the Cochrane Library?
• Cochrane Electronic Library: Is The Giant Lost In Cyberspace?m
• Usefulness of the Cochrane Library to U.S. Primary Care Clinicians.
• Searching For Evidence In Public Health Research: Which Source Is Most Effective?
• Identification of Clinical Trials Published in Iberoamerica (1948-1998)
• Collaboration In The Establishment Of A International Register Of Behavioral, Social, And Policy; Intervention Studies I HIV/AIDS Prevention
• The Development of a Database System for the Ongoing, Cumulative Reviews of Evidence-Based Research: The Studies Tracking, Acquisition, Review, and Synthesis (STARS) System
• Identifying HIV Prevention Trials for Systematic Review: Comparing Manual and Automated Methods of Retrieval
• Using the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register (CENTRAL) to Identify Clinical Trials in Selected Medical Fields
• The Use of "Grey Literature" in a Sub-set of Neurological Cochrane Reviews
• Trial Registers: What Do Users Really Really Want?
• RefTraK - The Cochrane Stroke Group's Specialised Register Management System: A Powerful Tool for Supporting Reviewers
• Randomized Controlled Trials in "Chinese Journal of Digestion " - A Handsearching of 1981-1998
• Dealing With Publication Bias: Different Mechanisms For Different Types Of Studies?
• Improving the Quality of Cochrane Reviews - a pilot project
• Assessing the Quality of Primary Studies: Empirical Study of Meta-Analyses Published in Leading Journals
• How Valuable is Effort to Contact Authors to Obtain Missing Data in Systematic Reviews
• Conventional Search Strategies Cannot Easily Identify Those Trials Of Drug Therapy Which Provide Quantitative Adverse Effects Data
• Editing abstracts of Cochrane systematic reviews
• POSSIBLE BIAS PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS: AN EXAMPLE AND A SUGGESTED SOLUTION.
• Gender bias within the Cochrane Collaboration. Are we guilty of discrimination against women?
• Possible Bias in Selecting Interventions for Consumers Based on Effect Estimates
• The Possible Cochrane Neurological Network Newletter: an Information Channel to Diffuse the Cochrane Collaboration in the Neurological Field.
• Increasing Criticisms and Reviewer's Responses to Them
• Influence Of "Blinding" On Selection Of Articles For Relevance
• A database of Informatics Evaluation in Primary Care
• Should Referees of Systematic Reviews Have Access to Original Papers?
• Comparison of the Results of Randomized Controlled Trials and Observational Studies in the Assessment of Hormone Replacement Therapy
• Reliability of a Scale for Measuring the Methodological Quality of Clinical Trials
• Should systematic reviews include non-randomized trials? Quality and results of various study types investigating the effect of acupuncture on idiopathic headaches
• Randomized Trials Versus Observational Studies in Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
• Aggregate Data Meta-Analysis With Time-To Event Outcomes: A Tutorial
• Collecting Unpublished Data for Systematic Reviews: a Proposal for a Randomised Trial
• Detection Of Outlying And Influential Trials: A Graphical Method To Explore Heterogeneity In Meta-Analysis
• Unpublished data from United States Food and Drug Administration New Drug Application Reviews: How Do They Compare to Published Data when Assessing Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug (NSAID) Associated Dyspepsia?
• Inadequate reporting of outcomes measured on ordinal and interval scales in relation to meta-analysis
• Dealing with Drop-outs in Clinical Trials and Meta-analyses
• Assessing the Quality of Reporting Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Assessing the Quality of Reports of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses: A Systematic Review of Checklists and Scales
• Completing A Systematic Review in Diabetes: The Fish Oil Supplementation in Type 2 Diabetes Story
• The Effectiveness of Interventions Directed at Improvement of the Management of Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Care, Outpatient and Community Settings
• Calcium Antagonists Risk-Benefit and Blood Pressure Control in Diabetes: Review of Literature and Drug Utilization Profile
• Strategies for Partner Notification for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Cervical Cancer And Sexual Lifestyle : A Systematic Review of Health Education Interventions
• DESCRIBING COMPLEX INTERVENTIONS: AN EXAMPLE FROM STROKE REHABILITATION
• Assessing and Addressing the Perceived Barriers to Evidence-Based Stroke Rehabilitation
• Antibiotics versus Placebo in the Common Cold
• Behavioural therapy for chronic low back pain: how to interpret meta-analyses combining studies with multiple effect sizes?
• Critical Literature Review of Systematic Reviews on Chronic Low Back Pain
• Manual Therapy For Neck Disorders
• Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation for Subacute Low Back Pain, Neck and Shoulder Pain, Repetitive Strain Injuries, Fibromyalgia and Multilocational Musculoskeletal Pains among Working Age Adults. A systematic review
• Meta-analysis of Calcitonin for Corticosteroid-Induced Osteoporosis
• Exercise Therapy for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women
• Individual Patient and Literature Based Meta-Analyses of Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer: Reasons for Differing Results
• Questionable Beauty Of Prevention - Case Of Overweight Prevention
• Economic Modelling Alongside a Systematic Review: Using Discrete Event Simulation to Model Dyspepsia Management Strategies.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Nasal Calcitonin in Postmenopausal Women. Using Cochrane Collaboration Methods in Economic Evaluation
• Should Economic Appraisal Be Combined Within Systematic Reviews In The Cochrane Library?
• Evidence on the Economics of Population-based Interventions: Methods Used in the Guide to Community Preventive Services
• Quantity and Quality of Health Economics Literature in Health Technology Assessment.
• Beyond Clinical Effectiveness - the Role of the UK NHS Economic Evaluation Database in Providing Best Evidence for Health Care
• Mapi Research Institute Health-related Quality of Life Database (IQOD) Project.
• CLINICAL TRIALS IN PERINATAL-NEONATAL MEDICINE Outcome of Abstracts Submitted for Annual Conference of The American Pediatric Society and The Society for Pediatric Research - Limited to Randomized Control Trials in Neonatology
• Making systematic reviews relevant to health care professionals
• Quality of Randomised Clinical Trials Affects Estimates of Intervention Efficacy
• Quality Predictors of Randomised Clinical Trials Published in the 'Hepatology' Journal
• Systematic Reviews Are Not Just Passive Reflections Of Available Research Evidence
• Dissemination Model Emphasizes Multi-faceted Approach
• Checklist for Neurological Review Article
• Empirical Assessment of Publication Bias: Lessons From Two Meta-Analyses
• Promises and Pitfalls in Systematic Reviews on Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Pain
• Methodological Evaluation on Randomized Controlled Trials for Viral Hepatitis in Chinese Medical Literature
• Ursodeoxycholic Acid for Primary Biliary Cirrhosis - a Systematic Review
• Selection Bias in Preterm Cohort Studies Overestimates Survival: A Systematic Review
• Outcome Measures Used in Chinese Acute Stroke Trials
• Oral vasoactive medication in intermittent claudication: utile or futile?
• A Systematic Review of Psychotherapies in Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Related EDNOS Syndromes.
• May exogenous gangliosides cause Guillain-Barre syndrome? An opportunity for reviewing Cochrane reviews
• Systematic Review of Newborn Hearing Screening Guidelines. The Starting Point for a Provincial and National Research Agenda?
• Investigating Heterogeneity Across Studies - A Review of the Systematic Reviews in the Infectious Diseases Module of the Cochrane Library
• Safety And Effectiveness Of Adding Long-Acting p2-Agonists To Inhaled Corticosteroidds In The Management Of Chronic Asthma.
• Meta-analysis of Sequential Therapy with Amoxicillin plus Clavulanic Acid in the Treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
• Is Amitriptyline the Reference Antidepressant?
• Does Vitamin A Supplementation Decrease Mortality in Patients With Measles?
• Traffic engineering and educational interventions to reduce pedestrian injuries: Identifying controlled studies
• Interventions for Treating Hallux Valgus (Bunion)
• An Explicit Approach to Applying the Results of Cochrane Reviews to High-Risk Populations
• A Randomized Trial Of The Preference Of Gastroenterologists For A Cochrane Review Versus A Traditional Review
• The Validity of the McMurray Test and Joint Line Tenderness for Diagnosing Meniscal Lesions of the Knee: a Systematic Review
• Should we treat? Should we not treat? A meta-analysis as a powerful tool in conducting systematic reviews, and our evidence-based observations for the treatment of Nephrotic Syndrome (NS) in adult patients with Idiopatic Glomerulonephritides (GN).
• Quality Improvement Kit for Hospitals: Promoting Structural Change to Support Guideline Implementation
• Evidence-Based Wound Care: Effectiveness of Dissemination to Health Professionals
• The Stroke Therapy Evaluation Progrannne(STEP): An Attempt To Introduce A Culture Of Evidence-Based Practice Into Stroke Rehabilitation.
• Epidemiology, Methods and Quality of Systematic Reviews of Interventions to Change Provider Behaviour
• The use of the Cochrane database in teaching evidence-ased nedicine (EBM): Experiences in a developing country.
• 'Hit, Miss or Maybe". An Analysis of the Usefulness ofCochrane Reviews to Commissioners of Health Care in one Health Region in the UK.
• Promoting Evidence-Based Health Care in Canada: The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre
• Evidence Based Practice: Is Nursing Research Ready for Partnership?
• Getting research into practice: women-centred obstetric care
• Involving Public Health Professionals In Reviewing The Evidence And Developing Recommendations For Public Health Policy, Practice And Research.
• Factors that Predict the Influence of Systematic Overviews on Policy Decisions among Public Health Decision-Makers in Ontario: Multiple Logistic and Linear Regression Analyses
• Empirical Verification Of The Uncertainty Principle In Conducting Randomized Trials
• Different Sampling Strategies For Identifying Eligible Studies: The Effect On Outcome Of A Meta-analysis Of Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drug-associated Dyspepsia
• How Comprehensive Is The MeSH Term "Breast Neoplasms"?
• A Comparison of Cochrane Reviews with Meta-Analyses Published in High Impact Journals
• Elaboration of Clinical Practice-Oriented Search Strategies in the Field of Oncology for a guidelines project.
• Updating a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: First Annual Update of Sexual Risk reduction Effects Following HIV Intervention
• Effectiveness Of Decision Aids For People Facing Health Treatment Or Screening Decisions
• Locating Reports of Serious Adverse Drug Reactions.
• Assessing Leg Ulcer Prevalence Studies: Conceptual, Methodological and Practical Issues
• Evidence Into Practice