Description

Overall objective

Learn how to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis and how to publish an article in high impact journals.

Specific objectives

• Identify the key steps in the systematic review process and define a review question and understand how to develop a review protocol.
• Perform critical appraisal of evidence using standardized quality checklists.
• Describe methods to critically assess the risk of bias in clinical trials and other studies.
• Develop a data extraction form and extract relevant results from the studies.
• To become familiar with statistical methods for quantitative data analysis.
• To explore the use of meta-analysis in data synthesis using a computer program (RevMan).
• Learn how to interpret in detail each figure of a meta-analysis and how to defend it in a presentation.
• Learn how to integrate the most recent scales on quality of meta-analysis.
• To become familiar with good practices in reporting systematic reviews.