In this web clinic, Carl Moons and Anneke Damen from the Prognosis Methods Group will introduce the new Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Research and Prediction Models. This Handbook will be the very first of its kind.
Understanding, summarising and predicting outcomes in populations and individuals is essential to modern healthcare planning and decision making, especially with the advent of personalised or stratified care. As such, there are thousands of new prognosis studies published each year in the health literature, many of which now use approaches attributed to artificial intelligence including machine learning. However, the quality of primary prognosis studies is known to be highly variable, and there are often conflicting reports about the usefulness of particular prognosis findings or specific prediction models.
This Cochrane Handbook will provide a formal, transparent and rigorous framework to identify, appraise and summarise existing prognosis research evidence to inform healthcare and health policy. We hope that you can join us to learn about the key features of the Handbook and gain insights into the field of prognosis research.
Presenters
Prof. Dr. Carl Moons is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and the former Director of Research at the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht. He is Figure Head/Director Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the UMC Utrecht and developed the AI strategy of the UMC Utrecht, establishing 5 dedicated AI-Health labs (AI Living Technologies and Regenerative Medicine; AI Molecular Medicine; AI Imaging and Imaging guided interventions; AI Methods and Fundamentals; AI Healthy Living and Prevention). He is also Director of Health Innovations Netherlands, an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University in the US, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies, Editor-in-Chief of BMC Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, and a convenor of the Prognosis Methods Group.
Dr. Anneke Damen is an Assistant Professor at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. She obtained her PhD in clinical epidemiology in 2018 at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Thesis ‘Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of prediction model studies: methods and applications’). Her research focuses on methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of prediction models. She works for Cochrane Netherlands, is the coordinator of the Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group, and is associate editor for the journal Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods.
