Intensive (3 days) GRADE Workshop offered at the New York Academy of Medicine:
August 12 – 14, 2009.
Leader: Holger Shunemann MD - Chair, Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics
To register go to: www.ebmny.org.
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Guideline developers around the world are inconsistent in their methods of
rating the quality of evidence and grading the strength of recommendations.
As a result, guideline users face challenges in understanding the messages
that grading systems try to communicate. The Grading of Recommendations
Assessment, Develop¬ment and Evaluation (GRADE) system has emerged as a
preferred approach for developing transparent, clear and explicit
recommendations for guiding clinical practice.
The Section for Evidence Based Healthcare of the New York Academy of
Medicine is offering a unique opportunity to acquire skills necessary to
developing a GRADE-based guideline. The opportunity is offered as a dedicated
track within a 3-day conference. The other tracks will concentrate on
Evidence-Based Individual Decision-Making and Knowledge Translation. The
composite format of the conference is anticipated to provide unique
perspectival advantages that will particularly enhance the quality of the
experience for the participants enrolling in the GRADE track.
Target Audience:
Clinicians, academicians and members of medical societies involved in the
development of clinical practice guidelines who are interested in learning
about
GRADE and how to apply it.
Objective:
At the end of this workshop participants will have developed one or more
GRADE-based recommendations applicable to their interests and expertise.
GRADE Faculty/Advisors:
Eli Akl MD- Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Buffalo, State
Univeristy of New York.
Holger Shunemann MD- Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
McMaster University and Co-developer of GRADE system
Workshop Format:
Plenary presentations, GRADE-specific content seminars, and small group
learning sessions. Small groups will meet within an e-classroom learning
environment and will include a health information specialist expert in evidence
gathering for guideline-related systematic reviews.
GRADE Track Content:
Seminar Topics:
Defining questions for guideline recommendations; finding and selecting
relevant evidence; quality review and rating of evidence; prioritizing values
and preferences.
Small group exercises:
Defining the scope of the participants’ GRADE projects, relevant searching
skills, GRADEing relevant evidence, incorporating patient values and
preferences and multi-stakeholder perspectives, final debrief and discussion of
participants’ draft recommendations
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