[PDF] Top 20 Assessing and presenting summaries of evidence in Cochrane Reviews

... German Cochrane centers and McMaster University, and pre-conference and conference workshops at Cochrane Colloquia and the meetings of the Guidelines International ...developing evidence-based ...the ... See full document

... involves assessing published effect sizes used within the economic evaluation because such data are a subset of the data that might be considered by a systematic review of ...of evidence for impacts on ... See full document

... implementation in primary studies, knowing the starting point to address implementation on a given topic, and pressures to accommodate knowledge translation concerns of research consumers despite reporting and review ... See full document

... the Cochrane Collaboration, the Evidence Aid Project was developed in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami as a means of providing decision-makers and health practitioners “on the ground” with ... See full document

... 10 reviews reported the criteria to downgrade ...the evidence for imprecision would have been contradicted based on GRADE assessment of impreci- sion following the GRADE Handbook or TSA if these methods had ... See full document

... empirical evidence published in the early 1980s ...empirical evidence on the influ- ence on blinding has grown since the mid-1990s, espe- cially in the last decade, with some evidence highlighting ... See full document

... systematic reviews as one of the key tools for evidence-based medi- cine ...research evidence is scattered in the literature making it difficult to access information for clinical decision ... See full document

... systematic reviews that have the potential to promote health ...this evidence with re- searchers and publishers in order to meet the information needs for those making decisions related to ...deliver ... See full document

... criteria: Cochrane Evidence , Informed Health , and PubMed Health ...development. Cochrane Evidence provides plain language summaries of Cochrane Reviews ...(i.e. ... See full document

... In our BRIEF trial, prior knowledge and prior belief predicted student response on the clear finding review but not the uncertain finding review. Current psycho- logical research demonstrates that beliefs and heuristics ... See full document

... study usually does not test a hypothesis and so there is no P value for authors and publishers to influence deci- sions about publication that are based on the statistical significance of the results. Investigating what ... See full document

... consistent evidence supports use of at least 1 g of vitamin C daily, which decreased symptom duration by 8% in adults and 18% in children in several trials and which might be even more effective during Canadian ... See full document

... The Cochrane Collaboration was established two decades ago, the task of preparing and maintaining systematic reviews for a range of health and social topics, utilizing a wide range of approaches has ex- ... See full document

... systematic reviews investigated behaviour change interventions within a specific area of healthcare practice such as weight management [5], device- related infections [11] and antibiotic prescribing [7, ... See full document

... qualitative evidence synthesis often relate to people’s experiences of a health condition, receiving a health or social care intervention, or factors that enhance or hinder the implementation of an ...alongside ... See full document

... qualitative evidence synthesis often relate to people’s experiences of a health condition, receiving a health or social care intervention, or factors that enhance or hinder the implementation of an ...alongside ... See full document

... in evidence syn- ...by evidence synthesis organisations or collaborations) that incorporated con- siderations of HI and HI-specific guidance ...studies presenting specific guidance for incorporating ... See full document

... These conclusions have implications for extending a similar “industrial scale” [32] review production initiative to public policy areas outside healthcare. Even within the realm of healthcare interventions, there is no ... See full document

... systematic reviews within or outside of the Cochrane Collaboration; (2) authors’ experiences preparing their systematic review; (3) whether they would undertake another review either within or outside of ... See full document

... of reviews are non-systematic and of poor quality. The available evidence showed a broad range of com- municated opinions and very variable estimates of SAE ...incidence. Reviews with less ... See full document