Systematic Review: Is the evidence useful? – Making sense of results
Your Instructor
Erica Ison is the lead for the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme at the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare. She is an experienced trainer/facilitator in a range of fields and has worked with a variety of people from health and care professionals and third sector personnel to politicians, students and members of the public.
Erica also designs and develops training and skills development courses, tailored for local, national and international audiences. Erica is an Expert Adviser to the World Health Organization European Network of Healthy Cities, and one of her main responsibilities is training and skills development. Erica also worked on the European Union’s Equity Action programme training civil servants in assessing the impact of government policies on equity.
Course Curriculum
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StartUnderstanding the overall results of the systematic review with meta-analysis: Main concerns (1:16)
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StartAppropriateness of the effect measures used by the researchers Lesson (5:33)
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StartMagnitude and favourability of the effect (5:52)
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StartStatistical significance and clinical or public health importance (3:40)
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StartConfidence in the effect estimate (2:53)
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StartSummary of steps in the interpretation of commonly used measures of effect size (26:52)
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StartThe five quality markers in the critical appraisal of systematic reviews with meta-analysis (2:40)
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StartA clearly formulated research question (2:29)
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StartSystematic and explicit methods to identify and select the relevant primary research studies for inclusion in the systematic review (11:28)
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StartRisk-of-bias or quality assessment of the individual primary research studies in a systematic review with meta-analysis (8:29)
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StartAppropriate extraction and presentation of the information/data from individual primary research studies (3:08)
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StartAppropriate statistical methods for meta-analysis (10:35)
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StartSensitivity analysis (7:19)
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StartSummary of main methodological issues and how they influence interpretation (3:03)