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Course: Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-Analysis in
Context
Venue: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
Duration: Three days
Date: 18th-20th June 2003
Cost: £340
Tutors include: Matthias Egger, Jonathan Sterne, Shah Ebrahim, George
Davey Smith, Theresa Moore, Margaret Burke
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The course aims to discuss what systematic reviews and meta-analyses
are, or should be, how they should be conducted and how published
reviews should be assessed. The focus will be on systematic reviews
and meta-analyses or controlled trials but meta-analysis of
observational data will also be discussed.
The course is designed for clinicians, researchers, public health
specialists and other health care professionals who want to critically
appraise and/or perform systematic reviews and meta-analyses. It is
based on the book with the same title, published by BMJ Books in 2001.
Students should have a basic knowledge of statistical methods. A basic
appreciation of research designs (to the level of the Basic
Epidemiological Methods course) would be helpful, as would basic
knowledge of Stata.
All the short courses at the Department of Social Medicine are
CME and PGEA approved. Further information about this and other courses
at the Department of Social Medicine can be found at
www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/shortc/htm. or from [log in to unmask]
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