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The University of Bristol, School of Social and Community Medicine has a few places still remaining on our Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis short course: 13th - 16th June 2016.
This course is designed for clinicians, researchers, public health specialists and other health care professionals who want to perform and/or critically appraise systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The course predominantly covers systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, with some material being equally relevant to systematic reviews of other topics, and the last day covering issues in systematic reviews of observational studies.
Course outline:
Introduction to Stata (Optional)
Why do we need systematic reviews?
Measures of treatment effect
Identifying relevant studies
Data extraction and management
Assessing the risk of bias in clinical trials
Statistical methods for meta-analysis (for dichotomous data; fixed-effect and random-effects models)
Methods for meta-analysis of trials with continuous outcomes
Explaining heterogeneity (including meta-regression)
Including non-randomized studies of interventions
Understanding, investigating and dealing with bias in systematic reviews
Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Critically appraising a systematic review
Computer practicals on meta-analysis will be undertaken using Stata.
Please visit our website http://www.bris.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/shortcourse for further details and booking information.
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