Department of Social and Preventive Medicine

Developing Protocol for Cochrane Systematic Review 10-13 July 2012

This workshop is meant for those who;

  1. have registered a Cochrane systematic review title with the Cochrane Collaboration; or
  2. are working on a registered protocol for a Cochrane systematic review; or
  3. are working on a non-Cochrane systematic review; or
  4. who are planning to undertaking a systematic review.

During this workshop, participants will be guided to develop and write a draft protocol for their review and learn to use RevMan 5 and GradePro software.

  Outline

Day 1 - Introduction to Evidence Informed Healthcare

Day 2 - Developing a Protocol for a Systematic Review and Introduction to RevMan

Day 3 - Searching for and selecting trials, assessing Risk of Bias & Data Extraction

Day 4 - Meta-analysis, Summary of findings and grading recommendations using GradePro

  Faculty

Dr Prathap Tharyan Dr. Prathap Tharyan, MD, MRCPsych has been on the faculty of the Christian Medical College, Vellore since 1988 He is currently a Professor of Psychiatry and an Associate Director of the medical college.

Dr. Tharyan is also the Director of the South Asian Cochrane Network and Centre (www.cochrane-sacn.org), hosted at the Prof. BV Moses and Indian Council  for Medical Research Centre for Advanced Research and Training in Evidence-Informed Healthcare at CMC Vellore. Dr. Tharyan is an Associate Editor with the open access journal, Trial;  and the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. He is also an editor with the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group and a systematic review author with several other Cochrane review groups.

  Registration Fees

All sessions (10-13 July) RM500.00
Introduction to EBHC (10 July) RM150.00
 
The registration fee covers resource materials, refreshments, and lunches on workshop days. This does not cover accommodation costs
Max. number of participants: 50

APPLICATION FORM

Please complete the application form and send to:
 
Contact information Ms Devi Peramalah
Julius Centre University of Malaya
Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +60 3 7967 3793

Fax: +60 3 7967 4975

  Venue and Dates

Venue: Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Malaya
Dates: 10-13 July 2012
Time: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm

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  Organisers

Julius Centre University Malaya, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya

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