15th Annual Meeting of UK and Ireland-based Contributors to The Cochrane Collaboration

Cardiff, March 2-3 2010

Plenary sessions



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3rd March 2010

State-of-the-art methods for Cochrane reviews of interventions - An overview of the revised Cochrane Handbook
Chair: Julian Higgins, Co-Editor, Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
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Addressing reporting bias
Jonathan Sterne, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol; Co-Convenor, Bias Methods Group
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The risk of bias tool
Doug Altman, Director, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford; Co-Convenor, Bias Methods Group
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Summary of findings tables
Phil Wiffen, Training and Operations Director, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford
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Including non-randomized studies
Barney Reeves, Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol; Co-Convenor, Non-randomised Studies Methods Group
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Incorporating economics
Miranda Mugford, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia; Chair of Convenors, Campbell and Cochrane Economics Methods Group
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The role of qualitative evidence
Jane Noyes, Noreen Edwards Chair in Nursing Research; Director of the Centre for Health-Related Research at Bangor University; Co-convenor, Qualitative Methods Research Group
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How can we improve the quality of reviews?
David Tovey, Editor in Chief, The Cochrane Library
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2nd March 2010
The importance of the Cochrane Collaboration
Tony Jewell, Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Assembly Government
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The public&rquot;s understanding of science!
Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science
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Hunting for Snarks: The challenge of getting evidence into guidelines.
Fergus Macbeth, Director of the Centre for Clinical Practice, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
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