Section outline

  • Lecture: Designing a systematic review
    Indications and overview of the steps of systematic reviews, how to formulate research questions and developing a protocol, Data sources, search strategy and publication bias; inclusion and exclusion criteria, quality assessment, data abstraction forms, selection of studies, homogeneity.

    Faculty:  Dejana Braithwaite

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Prospectus:

    • Course Overview Page.2015 File

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 1.2015 File
    • SR lecture April 2 2015 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    • Bent - AJIC - Systematic Reviews File
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    • Optional Reading:

      Systematic Reviews in Health Care, chapters 2,3,4 & 5

    • Moher D, Liberati A , Tetzlaff J, Altman DG. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. File
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    • Jadad AR et al. Assessing the Quality of Reports of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials: Is Blinding Necessary? Controlled Clinical Trials. 1996;17:1-12. File
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    • Hayden JA et al. Evaluation of the quality of prognostic studies in systematic reviews. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2006;144:427-437. File
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