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Systematic Search for Systematic Reviews Workshop

Systematic Search for Systematic Reviews Workshop

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.

May 29, 2021 12:51

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