{"id":154,"date":"2018-03-07T09:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/?p=154"},"modified":"2018-03-07T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:51:05","slug":"module-focus-systematic-reviews-and-evidence-synthesis-13-06-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/2018\/03\/07\/module-focus-systematic-reviews-and-evidence-synthesis-13-06-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Module Focus: Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis\u00a0(13.06.16)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How do you decide whether a treatment works? How much evidence is needed? What is \u201cgood\u201d evidence?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

These are questions addressed by systematic reviews, which are recognised in the \u201chierarchy of evidence\u201d as the best methodology for synthesising evidence in an unbiased way. Systematic reviews are used to inform clinical guidelines and health care decision making, and to prioritise research needs.<\/p>\n

This module equips students with the skills needed to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis using up-to-date methods.\u00a0 It includes guidance on planning a systematic review, literature searching, critical appraisal of different study designs, synthesis of the identified evidence and interpretation and presentation of findings. More advanced and specialist topics are also covered, such as individual participant data meta-analysis and mixed treatment comparisons, as well as methods for systematic reviews on clinical questions beyond effectiveness, such as: prognostic factors, diagnostic test accuracy, adverse events, qualitative research and cost-effectiveness.<\/p>\n

Once again the module was well-received by our new MPH student cohort and the following comments highlight some of the best aspects of the sessions:<\/p>\n

\u201cStructural approach\u2026 good use of illustrative examples and exercises\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe critical appraisal (CASP) workshop was excellent\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe module flowed well by basing it on stages of a Systematic Review\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDetailed and well presented handouts and thorough lectures\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe practical sessions were very useful and thorough\u201d<\/p>\n

Student feedback is incredibly important in order to keep improving our modules every year and we would like to extend a big thank you to all who provided feedback for this year. Your comments have been taken into account and we will continue to work on making the SRES module as informative and engaging as possible.<\/p>\n

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Written by and further information available from Dr David Moore (d.j.moore@bham.ac.uk<\/a>) and Janine Dretzke (j.dretzke@bham.ac.uk<\/a>) – Module Leads<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you decide whether a treatment works? How much evidence is needed? What is \u201cgood\u201d evidence?\u00a0 These are questions addressed by systematic reviews, which are recognised in the \u201chierarchy of evidence\u201d as the best methodology for synthesising evidence in an unbiased way. Systematic reviews are used to inform clinical guidelines and health care decision … Continue reading “Module Focus: Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis\u00a0(13.06.16)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/publichealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}