This virtual workshop is the first
advanced workshop that will be held nationally on June 2-3, 2021 through
the collaboration of Cochrane Iran Associate Centre and Systematic Review and
Meta-Analysis Studies Center of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
(SYRMAN).
Due to the COVID-19 challenging
time, this workshop will be held virtually in the form of a webinar.
Online lectures, questions and answers, discussion, live chats and some
exercises, will be available.
This workshop will also provide
practical, hands-on advice and tips for advance searching in MEDLINE,
including: Medical Subject heading (MeSH) searches; field codes; frequency
search; nesting; and filters.
Trainer
Dr. Payam Kabiri
Aim/ Content:
This virtual workshop aims to train participants to advanced search for
systematic review studies. It will include:
Formulating
a PICO question
P
= Population/Patient/Problem - How would we define the problem or a group of
patients?
I
= Intervention - What main intervention, exposure, or therapy we wish to
consider?
C
= Comparison - Is there an alternative treatment to compare with the
intervention?
O
= Outcome - What is the clinical outcome?
Sources
to search
Bibliographic
databases
MEDLINE
and Embase
The
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL)
Other
bibliographic databases
Designing
search strategies according to PICO
Designing
search strategies and running search
Understand
the differences between controlled vocabulary and keywords
Recognized
search syntax rules (search fields, Boolean and proximity searching)
Sensitivity
versus precision
Create
a search in Medline with a combination of MeSH and Keywords
Identifying
gray literature and running search
Language,
date and document format restrictions
Identifying
fraudulent studies, other retracted publications, errata and comments
Search
filters, peer review of search strategies, alerts, timing of searches, stop
searching time
Documenting
and reporting the search process
Target group
Medical and Health specialists
Requirements
Basic knowledge of Health and Medical Sciences
Enrollment
Enrollment and further information is available here
Language: This workshop is taught in Persian.