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Cochrane Interactive Learning: Conducting an Intervention Review

What systematic reviews are, why they are useful, framing a review question, process for reviews.

Why protocols are a crucial step, components of a protocol, framing eligibility criteria.

Why systematic and rigorous searches are important, planning and designing search strategies, sources of studies, managing and reporting the process.

How to select studies for inclusion, systematically collecting different data types that meet criteria.

What bias is, how to assess the risk of bias in randomized trials in different sources.

How to analyse different types of data, effect measures, undertaking meta-analysis, recognizing heterogeneity.

How to interpret results of statistical analysis, reporting bias, using GRADE method to report on certainty of evidence.

The reporting process, creating ‘Summary of findings’ tables, writing up results, discussing evidence, drawing conclusions, summary formats.

Introducing health economics and considerations for this in a systematic review.

Introduction to  network meta-analysis (NMA) in the context of a systematic review of randomized trials.

Putting the equity lens on your systematic review.

Getting started with qualitative evidence synthesis, taking stock of evidence, synthesising and developing findings and writing up a report.

How to conduct a rapid review, including key differences from systematic reviews and practical approaches to streamline the process.

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Nikolina Z - 1 July 2021
It is very helpfull and abstract but in a positive way... It is useful for anybody who want doing sistematic review. It is also vey interesting
Edwin A - 1 July 2021
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Lucy F - 29 June 2021
Excellent course, very useful. Very thorough and all topics were well explained.
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Marc V - 28 June 2021
I have done most of the modules last year, so it has been some time since then. The content of the courses is really good. The modules really have a lot to offer. There is plenty of material, both video and text, explaining all the aspects of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. There are links to external resources, there is background material in abundance.

However there is room for improvement.
- The external resources and background material could be laid out more clearly, perhaps in a section of its own for easier access after finishing the modules.
- Within the modules, there is a lot of clicking and scrolling of different website elements involved which can be distracting and tedious.
- I am not sure whether a general glossary exists, but it would make a lot of sense to link important technical terms (sensitivity, precision, specificity, bias, search strategy, median, ...) to a glossary which can be accessed at all times, so that terms which are explained in detail only in one module, but which are used throughout other modules without additional explanation, can always be looked up.
- Another thing which could use improvement is the assessments. You have to be 100% right in order to pass, and after two attempts the whole test needs to be started over again in order to proceed. This is very tedious. Particularly if answers to a question cannot be found in the course material and if they feature several multiple-choice answers, it is really hard to get the correct set of answers, even when consulting the course material.

Overall I would still recommend doing the courses. As I've said, they have a lot to offer if you are engaged in evidence-based medicine, systematic literature search or in a review project.
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