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.
