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Outline
- Liz:
– Identify your audience – Keep your readers in mind
- Who might read my article
- How they will read it / how they will use it
- Will it be good enough for that purpose
- Practical exercise
Who will read my article? Iveta Simera Outline Liz: Identify your - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Who will read my article? Iveta Simera Outline Liz: Identify your - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Who will read my article? Iveta Simera Outline Liz: Identify your audience Keep your readers in mind Who might read my article How they will read it / how they will use it Will it be good enough for that purpose
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- Who might read my
paper?
– Clinicians – Researchers – Patients
- How will they use it?
– Quick scan – Systematic review – Clinical guideline
Picture: imperial.crf.nihr.ac.uk
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Is my research article written in a way that it can be potentially included in a systematic review?
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Systematic reviews
- Key steps:
– Formulation of a clear question – Eligibility criteria for studies – Search for potentially relevant studies – Selection of studies into the review – Extraction of data – Assessment of methodological quality
- f included studies (risk of bias)
– Synthesis of findings (possibly using meta-analysis) – Presentation of data and results – Interpretation and drawing conclusions
injuries.cochrane.org
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Systematic reviews
- Key steps:
– Formulation of a clear question – Eligibility criteria for studies – Search for potentially relevant studies – Selection of studies into the review – Extraction of data – Assessment of methodological quality
- f included studies (risk of bias)
– Synthesis of findings (possibly using meta-analysis) – Presentation of data and results – Interpretation and drawing conclusions
injuries.cochrane.org
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Assessing risk of bias
A critical element of a systematic review
- Risk of bias results from suboptimal methods
- Methods need to be reported well to allow assessment of
risk of bias
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Assessing risk of bias
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Exercise
- Cochrane RoB tool and guidance
- Read the article – methods section
- Assess RoB using Cochrane guidance
– Sequence generation – Allocation concealment – Blinding (participants, intervention providers,
- utcome assessors)
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Exercise - feedback
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RoB assessment by Cochrane authors
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Assessing risk of bias
A critical element of a systematic review
- Risk of bias results from suboptimal methods
- Methods need to be reported well to allow assessment of
risk of bias
SERIOUS problem: Unclear description of methods
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Key messages
- Advantage to understand the SR development
methodology
- Provide a sufficient description of my research
methods and findings that can satisfy even thorough scrutiny by systematic reviewers
- Better usability of my article = bigger IMPACT
- f my research !
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