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Cochrane Collaboration and Systematic Review Workshop, 20-21 February 2007, Dubai Women's Association.

(5.5 credit points in the category 1 of the MOH CME)

Workshop Instructors:

Dr. Zbys Fedorowicz,  Dr. Dunia Al Hashimi, Dr. Ahmed Al Asfoor

Workshop objectives:

- Participants be acquainted with the Cochrane Collaboration and its activities

- Participants should understand the differences between a systematic review & a traditional narrative review.

- Participants should understand the rationale for systematic reviews

- Participants understand the significance of levels of evidence represented as the ‘hierarchy of evidence’

- Participants should have obtained a foundation knowledge of the steps required to conduct a systematic review in the field of health care

Key Learning Benefits:
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare interventions.

This intensive two-day systematic review training workshop will allow the participants to get acquainted with the Cochrane Collaboration and its activities as well as provide the necessary skills to contribute to this type of research.

Who should attend?

Every one involved with health care as provider, recipient or researcher. This will include consumers who are patients or people interested in a particular field of medicine, nurses, doctors and healthcare personnel.

Workshop Contents:

Day One:

Background to Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration

08:00-08:15 Welcome and Introductions

08:15-08:30 What is the Cochrane Collaboration

08:30-09:00 Understanding systematic reviews

- Anatomy of a systematic review?

- What is a systematic review?

- Why review systematically?

09:00–09:15 Hierarchy of evidence

09:15-09:30 Study Designs

09:300-9:45 Coffee Break 

09:45–10:30 Group Discussion: Critical Appraisal of a systematic review

Designing a Systematic Review

10:30 10:45 Identifying a relevant research question

- Why set a focused question?

- Components of a focused question?

10:45-11:30 Group Discussion–Designing question for review

11:30–12: 00 Which studies should we include?

- Which outcome interests us and the users of the reviews?

- Inclusion and exclusion criteria

12:00-12-30 Group discussion- Design inclusion and exclusion criteria for your question

12:30–13:15 Prayer and Lunch

13:15–13:30 Format of a systematic review

13:30–13:45 Cochrane Library

13:45–14:15 Computer session on the Cochrane library

Day Two:

08:30-08:45 Hand searching

08:45-09:15 Group tasks on hand searching

Finding the evidence

09:15–10:15 Search strategy

- Developing a search strategy

- Searching for relevant trials for systematic reviews: where, how and why?

10:15–10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-01:15 Practical exercises on searching skill

11:15-12:15 Developing a protocol

12:15-12:30 Q&A

12:30–13:30 Prayer and Lunch Break

13:30–14:00 Registering a title

14:00–14:30 Methodological Quality of the studies

14:30-15:30 Group task – Appraise a randomized controlled trial

15:00–15:15   Break

15:15– 5:45 Practical exercise – Registering a title at a CRG online

15:45–16:00 Wrap up and Feedback.

Attendees prerequisite:

Basic skills in using the computer or internet, (Help will be provided whenever necessary) and English language knowledge.

Instruction Language: English
 

Workshop Pricing & Payment Methods:

Price: AED3950 (Fees Include documentations and handouts, Certificate of attendance, Lunch Buffet, and refreshments)

You may pay by Cheque/Bank Draft, Transfer or Cash

- Cheque/Bank Draft payable: Reyada Training & Management Consultancy.

- Bank Transfer to:

Emirates Bank International,

A/C: 0077-469201-001,

Karama Branch, Dubai – UAE.

Please fax the copy of transfer advice: +971-4-2686556

Workshops Venue

Dubai women's Association
P.O. Box 1704,
Dubai - United Arab Emirates.

Location: Deira, Opposite Dubai Hospital.
Tel.: +971-4-2662600,  +971-4-2662737

URL: http://www.women.ae

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