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Workshop - Basic Training in Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses: Appraisal and Synthesis

This guide supports the two-day workshop developed at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center by the Research Medical Library & the Department of General Internal Medicine.

Workshop Notes

The section of the workshop presented by Lara Maxwell, MSc, Managing Editor, Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.

Helpful Tools

  • GRADE  Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation
  • PRISMA - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  • COMET Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials
  • MECIR methodological expectations for Cochrane Protocols, Reviews, and updates of reviews on the effects of interventions

Workshop Example

Ekeberg, O. M., Bautz-Holter, É., Tveitå, E. K., Juel, N. G., Kvalheim, S., Brox, J. I., & Koes. (2009). Subacromial Ultrasound Guided or Systemic Steroid Injection for Rotator Cuff Disease: Randomised Double Blind Study. BMJ: British Medical Journal338(7689), 273–276. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20511940