Systematic Review Workshop
Upcoming Sessions: August 17 and 19, 2021 | November 8 and 10, 2021
Improve your team’s intervention review skills and ability to assess the existing evidence on your organization’s next clinical inquiry!
This live virtual two-day course will cover systematic review methodologies and critical appraisal skills. This multi-disciplinary course is suitable for individuals working in the health and social science areas who are considering or planning to conduct a systematic review of intervention studies. This course is an important step before embarking on a new research study and no prior experience in conducting systematic reviews is necessary! The course will examine the key components of systematic reviews using the Cochrane Collaboration methodology and will include lectures, group discussions and practical exercises, such as facilitated time to begin developing a systematic review topic.
Expected Outcomes
- Recognize the essential steps of planning and preparing a systematic review of intervention studies.
- Formulate a relevant review question.
- Understand the key principles of literature searching, data extraction
- Utilize valuable tools available to prepare a systematic review.
Topics Covered
- Introduction to systematic reviews and the Cochrane Collaboration
- Developing a PICO(T) question for a systematic review of intervention studies
- Appropriate search strategies for studies
- Assessing study eligibility
- Critical appraisal of studies
- Data extraction
- Introduction to the basic principles of meta-analysis and forest plots
- Finding resources for systematic reviews
Speaker/Presenter
Dónal O’Mathúna, PhD, is the Director of the Cochrane Affiliate of The Ohio State University, and is also an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing at Ohio State. His degrees are in pharmacy and ethics, with research interests focused on both evidence-based practice (EBP) and healthcare ethics. His EBP activities have focused on systematic reviews with the Cochrane Collaboration and he was director of Cochrane Ireland from 2014 to 2017. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the recently formed Cochrane U.S. Network. He has conducted systematic review training in Ireland, the UK, and the United States, and is co-author on a number of systematic reviews in the Cochrane Library.
His ethics research has focused on disasters and humanitarian crises, most recently being co-editor of Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Issues (Springer, 2018). O’Mathúna is the Principal Investigator on funded research projects examining research ethics in the context of disasters and humanitarian crises. He has contributed to ethics initiatives and guidelines with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). He has spoken and published widely, including peer-reviewed articles in The Lancet, Bioethics, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, and Worldviews on Evidence-based Nursing.
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Registration and Cost
Upcoming Sessions: August 17 and 19, 2021 | November 8 and 10, 2021
Cost: $500 | $250 (student w/transcript)*
*For information on student discounts contact Casey Jacobs at jacobs.624@osu.edu.
*For information on student discounts contact Casey Jacobs at jacobs.624@osu.edu.
Detailed Timing Information
Day 1 | 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM EST
Day 2 | 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM EST
A small off-hours project will occur between the two days.
During the workshop, participants will work to develop a protocol for a systematic review using a template developed for this purpose. Breakdown sessions will provide time for participants to get feedback on the developing sections. Participants will benefit more if they spend a little time on their protocol between Day 1 and 2. To help with this, an optional Q&A help session will occur at 12 noon EST on the in-between day.
Continuing Education Disclosure Statement
This course offers 15.25 contact hours of nursing continuing education and is provided in collaboration with the Cochrane US Network.
- The Ohio State University College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- The Nurse Planner and Planning Committee have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
- There was no commercial support or sponsorship for development of this program.
- Contact hours are awarded commensurate with participation.
- For non-nurses: Some professional boards view nursing contact hours as part of their acceptable continuing education requirements as long as it pertains to your practice. We encourage you to contact your specific certifying board to inquire whether your profession offers reciprocal continuing education credits to those provided by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Cochrane US Network
The Cochrane US Network works to promote evidence-based decision making in medicine, public health and healthcare in the US by producing high-quality systematic and evidence reviews, supporting and building capacity for systematic review authors, training current and potential users of Cochrane Reviews and forging collaborative partnerships for policy and guidance. The US Network also collaborates with clinicians, professional associations, policymakers, patients, healthcare provider organizations and the media to encourage the dissemination and use of Cochrane evidence.
Questions
Contact us at 614-688-1175 or contact-fuld@osu.edu. For information on student discounts contact Casey Jacobs at jacobs.624@osu.edu.
Additional Registration Information
- Minimum required technology hardware and software
To participate in this program, you need a computer with a Windows 10/Mac OS Catalina 10.15 operating system, CPU speed: Intel Core i5 Processor, 16GB RAM, Office software (including Word and PowerPoint) and a PDF reader. You will also need a high-speed internet connection with 100 mbps download speed and 100 mbps upload speed, a webcam, a microphone and the Zoom application/add-in. A printer is recommended if you like to read articles as hard copies.
If you are unsure on how to check for the above requirements on your computer, please feel free to email us at contact-fuld@osu.edu. - Minimum required computer skills
To participate in this program, you need to be comfortable downloading, opening, closing, printing, editing and saving PDF, Word and PowerPoint files. You will also need to be comfortable navigating between multiple websites and/or applications and turning on and off, muting and adjusting audio (microphone) and video (webcam) options during a Zoom meeting. - Optional research study
A research study is occurring to evaluate the impact of this workshop. Registered participants will receive an invitation to participate in this which will involve completing research questionnaires before and after the workshop. Participation in the research is completely optional and will not impact your involvement in the workshop.