Introduction to Systematic Reviews
Schedule
Mon Nov 04 2024 at 10:00 am to Tue Nov 12 2024 at 01:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Online | Online, 0
About this Event
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Date: 4th, 5th, 11th & 12th November 2024
Time: 10.00am - 1.00/1:30pm each day
Places: 30 places for individuals who are resident on the island of Ireland
Background
Health care policy and practice decisions should be based on a synthesis of the global body of evidence rather than relying on individual studies. Cochrane Ireland and Evidence Synthesis Ireland promote evidence-based healthcare policy and practice by supporting high quality, relevant systematic reviews and other synthesised research evidence.
Aim
This workshop provides authors, at the beginning of the systematic review process, with an in-depth understanding of how reviews are planned and conducted. It offers an insight to the development of a protocol, introducing participants to methodology, search methods, data extraction, risk of bias assessment and meta-analysis.
Learning outcomes
In this course participants will be enabled to:
- Understand the basic principles of a systematic review
- Identify the scope of their review
- Understand search methods and apply these methods to their search strategy
- Apply the criteria for selecting studies
- Understand the principles of creating a data collection form and of data extraction
- Understand the principles of risk of bias assessment
- Understand principles of heterogeneity and understand the methods for assessing and addressing it
- Attain a basic understanding of principles of meta-analysis
Teaching strategies
The workshop will consist of a mixture of short presentations, led by members of the Cochrane Ireland teaching faculty covering each of the stages of developing a systematic review protocol, small group activities and plenary discussions, providing participants with the opportunity to develop and refine their protocol. This course will include blended learning with two months free access to Cochrane Interactive Learning self-directed learning modules, a number of which will be required study prior to the workshop.
Facilitators
Prof. Anne Matthews
Full Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health, Dublin City University
Ciara Gleeson
Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, R espiratory Assessment Unit, S t James's Hospital, Dublin
Course content
Day 1 – Pre-learning: Have completed modules 1, 2 & 3 from Cochrane Interactive Learning
10:00 Welcome, introduction of presenters
10:15 Defining a review question – defining objectives and creating a PICO (population, interventions, comparators, outcomes)
10:45 Practical exercise with PICO development
11:00 Practical exercise feedback
11:15 Break
11:30 Writing a protocol
12:00 Identifying search terms and searching for relevant studies in a systematic way
12:30 Practical exercise: developing a search strategy
12:45 Practical exercise feedback
13:00 Close
Day 2 – Pre-learning: Have completed modules 4 & 5 from Cochrane Interactive Learning
10:00 Recap and questions on previous workshop
10:30 Selecting studies
11.00 Break
11.15 Practical exercise : assessing eligibility
11:45 Practical exercise feedback
12.15 Assessing risk of bias (2.0)
13.00 Close
Day 3 – Pre-learning: Have completed module 5 from Cochrane Interactive Learning
10:00 Recap and questions on previous workshop
10:30 Practical exercise on Risk of bias
11:00 Break
11:15 Practical exercise feedback
11:45 Data extraction and management; different types and formats of outcome data
12:15 Practical exercise on Data collection/extraction and management
12:35 Practical exercise feedback & open Q&A
13:00 Close
Day 4 – Pre-learning: Have completed module 6 from Cochrane Interactive Learning
10:00 Recap and questions on previous workshop
10:30 Analysis methods for binary data (odds ratio, risk ratio)
11.00 Analysis methods for continuous data (mean difference, standardised mean difference)
11:30 Break
11:45 Introduction to meta-analysis
12:30 Exploring heterogeneity; subgroup analysis and sensitivity analysis
13:00 Discussion and questions
13:30 Close
Where is it happening?
OnlineEUR 80.00 to EUR 150.00