Systematic Reviews

Aim

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about healthcare by preparing and maintaining systematic reviews of interventions. Cochrane reviews are prepared according to rigorous methods and published in The Cochrane Library.
This one-day course, designed for researchers preparing a Cochrane Intervention review, will enable you to develop a protocol for a systematic review about healthcare interventions (therapy or prevention), to know how to identify studies for inclusion, how to assess the risk of bias (methodological quality) of included studies, how to extract data, how to apply basic meta-analysis (combining results and exploring sources of heterogeneity), and how to report and interpret the results of the review.

Location & Organization

Organizer

AMC - Graduate School Amsterdam Medical Centre

Course Director

Dr. M.W. Langendam

Faculty / Teachers

Dutch Cochrane Center

Location / venue

Amsterdam, Dutch Cochrane Center

Costs

No charge for registered Cochrane Reviewers or registered AMC PhD students.

Timing & Workload

Duration One day
ECTS points 0.3
Frequency Four times per year
 

Teaching methods used

Presentations, assignments and discussions

Examination no

Criteria

Is the course taught in English? yes
Is documentation available? (book, syllabus)? yes
Is the course open for external researchers? no

Remarks

This course is intended for people who are preparing a systematic review for the Cochrane Collaboration and have registered a title for a review with the relevant Cochrane review Group (see http://www.cochrane.org/contact/review-groups).

More Information

http://www.amc.nl/?pid=5218