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  • We will introduce methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials. We will cover how to formulate an answerable research question, define inclusion and exclusion criteria, search for the evidence, extract data, assess the risk of bias in clinical trials, and perform a meta-analysis.
  • Upon successfully completing this course, participants will be able to:
  • - Describe the steps in conducting a systematic review
  • - Develop an answerable question using the ?Participants Interventions Comparisons Outcomes? (PICO) framework
  • - Describe the process used to collect and extract data from reports of clinical trials
  • - Describe methods to critically assess the risk of bias of clinical trials
  • - Describe and interpret the results of meta-analyses
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Curriculum

Introduction

Welcome to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

Lecture 1A : Introduction to Systematic Reviews

Lecture 1B: Introduction to Meta-Analysis

Lecture 1C: Producers and Users of Systematic Reviews

Hannah Rothstein, PhD

Syllabus

Pre Course Survey

From the Field Videos

Framing the Question

Lecture 2A: Resources for How to Frame Your Question

Lecture 2B: Deciding the Type and Scope of Your Question

Lecture 2C: Elements of the Question

Lecture 2D: Refining the Question

Lecture 2E: Some Examples

Lecture 2F: Analytic Frameworks

Betsy Becker, PhD

Welcome to the first Peer Assignment!

Module 2

Searching Principles and Bias Assessment

Searching Principles and Assessing Bias

Lecture 3A: Finding the Evidence: Searching Principles

Lecture 3B: Identifying Key Sources and Techniques for Searching

Lecture 3C: Building a High-Quality Search Strategy

Lecture 3D: Documenting Your Search and Conclusions

Lecture 4A: Why Bias in the Individual Study is Important to a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Lecture 4B: Selection Bias

Lecture 4C: Information Bias

Lecture 4D: Bias in the Analysis

Lecture 4E: Displaying Study "Quality" in Your Systematic Review

Byron Wallace, Phd

Module 3

Module 4

Minimizing Metabias, Qualitative Synthesis, and Interpreting Results

Lecture 5A: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Lecture 5B: Selection Bias

Lecture 5C: Information Bias

Lecture 5D: Bias in the Analysis

Lecture 5E: Reporting Transparently

Lecture 6A: Qualitative Synthesis and Interpreting Results Section A

Lecture 6B: What is Qualitative Synthesis

Lecture 6C: Some Examples

Christopher Schmid, PhD

Module 5

Module 6

Planning the Meta-Analysis and Statistical Methods

Planning Meta-Analysis and Statistical Methods

Lecture 7A: Planning Your Meta-Analysis Section A

Lecture 7B: Introduction to Meta-Analysis

Lecture 7C: Why Do a Meta-Analysis?

Lecture 7D: Types of Data and Effect Measures

Lecture 8A: Fixed Effect Model

Lecture 8B: Random Effects Model

Lecture 8C: Random Effects Model

Michael Borenstein, PhD

Module 7

Module 8

Wrap Up and Final Peer Review Assignment

Lecture 9A: Wrap Up

Closing Remarks

Welcome to Your Final Peer Review Assignment

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