ICS 2011 Workshop 7 - Producing reliable summaries of incontinence research: a ‘hands-on’ workshop on how to conduct a Cochrane systematic review

Speakers
	Monday 29th August 2011
	09:00 - 12:00
	Hall N Capacity: 45
C Cathryn Glazener Workshop Chair G Graham Mowatt Workshop Speaker M Mandy Fader Workshop Speaker J Jonathan Cook Workshop Speaker
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09:00

Introduction

Cathryn Glazener

09:15

Question formulation and protocol development

Graham Mowatt

10:00

Critical appraisal and data extraction

Mandy Fader

10:30

Break

None

11:00

Critical appraisal cont'd

All

11:15

Data synthesis, including meta analysis

Jonathan Cook

11:45

Interpretation and reporting

All

Level	Advanced
Duration	180 minutes
Category	Epidemiology & Outcomes Research
Keywords	systematic reviews meta analysis x
Target Audience	Researchers, clinicians and other health care professionals who want to learn about evidence synthesis, especially those who are new to systematic reviewing and are planning on doing a systematic review.
Aims and Objectives	The course will focus on an aspect of incontinence management chosen in advance. We shall take the participants through the key stages of undertaking a Cochrane-style sytematic review of controlled trials, including demonstrating Review Manager software and description of statistical methods aims to address the following questions: •How to formulate a question for a systematic review related to continence care •How to search for eligible studies •How to appraise the methodological quality of eligible studies •How to abstract data from eligible studies •How to synthesise and analyse data •How to interpret findings and report them •The opportunities available for contributing to the Cochrane Incontinence Group