Systematic Review Workshop
Upcoming Sessions:
- Watch here for 2023 event dates, coming soon!
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.
