Dear Colleagues
May I enlist your help in drawing attention to this course being run at the
Institute of Child Health in November. If anyone would like an e-poster for
advertising the event, please contact me direct.
other contact details and URLs for the course are in the message below.
many thanks
John
EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING IN CHILD HEALTH
17,18,19 November 2004
Institute of Child Health, London
This 3 day introductory course is designed to help participants develop
skills in critical appraisal, and to raise awareness of approaches for
incorporating values and preferences in decision-making, and for
synthesising evidence.
The course is intended for healthcare practitioners, particularly those
responsible for developing local practice guidelines within their area.
Previous experience in applying evidence-based concepts in practice is an
advantage but not essential.
Content:
The course consists of plenary seminars, small group problem-solving and
appraisal sessions using examples in child health, and practical sessions
on how to search the scientific literature. The course will include
approaches to framing questions, searching for the evidence, principles of
research design, elementary statistics and critical appraisal, using a mix
of plenary sessions and facilitated small group sessions. We will also
cover approaches for applying evidence to individual patients: to trade off
the benefits and harms of therapy or diagnosis for a particular patient,
practitioners need to integrate evidence from different types of studies
with information on the patients values and preferences.
We will draw on examples from across child health and contrast decision
making form individual and societal points of view.
Cost: £470
For further details and an application form please contact:
Melissa Harden, Administrator, email: [log in to unmask] or tel: 020 7905
2606
Application forms also available to download from:
http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/paed_epid/cebch/events.html
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John Clarke
Librarian
The Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street Library
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
Tel: 020 7905 2156
Fax: 020 7831 0488
email: [log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/library
Catalogue: http://www.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~admin/webcat.html
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