Cochrane workshop

Systematic Reviews in Health: an introductory training day

8th Decemeber 2015

Cochrane working group and the Kazan Federal University as a Russian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre invite you to participate in this training day, which provides an introductory overview of all aspects of systematic reviewing in health. It is designed for health professionals, academics and decision makers with an understanding of health and related research and those of them who are willing to get involved in Cochrane activities in Russia.

Places are limited (25 participants maximum).

Outline of the day will include:

What is a systematic review?

The role of Cochrane systematic reviews in decision-making

Scoping the research question

Literature searching

Inclusion/exclusion screening

Data extraction & critical appraisal

Data synthesis

Date: 8th December 2015

Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm

The aim of the workshop is to provide introduction to Cochrane systematic reviews and their role in decision-making, as well as to facilitate participants in preparing a protocol, including title registration. The workshop is open to people who have good enough command of English and are prepared to learn and able to dedicate their time to Cochrane work and activities. (see: How to get involved).

The course material for this workshop is the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions.

We advise to read in advance “Users' Guides to the Medical Literature” by

Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie, Maureen O. Meade, and Deborah J. Cook at JAMAevidence Using Evidence to Improve Care: http://jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookID=847

When registering, please submit a brief CV of at least 1 A-4 page and a letter of motivation, and send it by e-mail to Ekaterina Yudina.

The rationale behind and the main characteristics of a Cochrane protocol will be discussed briefly at the workshop. We have allotted the end of the training day to a detailed discussion of the individual participants' ideas for protocol development.

Deadline for registration is four weeks before the workshop. A minimum of five participants is required to complete the workshop.

Register online

Venue: 
The Russian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre at the Kazan Federal University

74 Karl Marx Street 
420008, Russian Federation

For further information please contact Ekaterina Yudina at evudi@rambler.ru

PROGRAMME

Workshop on Cochrane Systematic Reviews

Cochrane Russia, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia

8 December, 2015; 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Course Faculty:

Erik von Elm, MD MSc FMH, Senior Scientist, Co-Director Cochrane Switzerland, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Karsten Jorgensen, MD, DrMedSci, Senior Researcher, Deputy Director, The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lilia Eugenevna Ziganshina, MD, PhD, DSci (Med), Professor, Director Cochrane Russia (Russian Branch of the Nordic Cochrane Centre), Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation.

Lorenzo Moja, MD, MSc, PhD, Dr Pub Health, Technical Officer, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Guillaume Dedet, MD, MSc, MPH, WHO EURO, Copenhagen, Denmark

Time

Topic

Speaker

Language

10:00-10:15

Introduction & Welcome

All

EN

10:15-10:40

Brief introduction to Cochrane Reviews

Erik von Elm

EN

10:40-11:10

Defining a review question

(incl. task of 10 min)

Karsten Jorgensen

EN

11:10-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:00

Searching and selecting studies

Lilia Eugenevna Ziganshina

RU

12.00-12.30

Using Covidence software

Karsten Jorgensen

EN

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:30

Assessing risk of bias in included studies

Erik von Elm

EN

14:30-15:10

Analysing dichotomous and continuous outcomes

Lilia Eugenevna Ziganshina

Erik von Elm

RU

EN

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Introduction to meta-analysis and forest plots

Karsten Jorgensen

EN

15:50-16:50

Tutorial: Critical appraisal of a systematic review (Smith et al.)

All (in small groups, different rooms)

EN

16:50-17:00

Short Break

17:00-17:45

Use of Cochrane evidence in WHO policy setting

Lorenzo Moja

Guillaume Dedet

EN

17:45-18:00

Questions and Conclusion