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Make the IRG pre-conference workshop part of your
annual HTAi (Health Technology Assessment International) meeting plans! Join us
in Barcelona on Sunday, June 17th for
a full day of training and lively discussions. Our workshop includes a mixture
of presentations and interactive sessions highlighting important and emerging
developments in HTA information management.
Julie Glanville, IS Manager and Associate Director at the Centre for Reviews
and Dissemination in York, will outline recent research into search filters to
identify diagnostic tests and assessments of which databases and other
resources should be searched for diagnostic test studies.
Greg Bak, an information specialist from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and
Technologies in Health, will discuss a CADTH-adapted critical appraisal
instrument that can be used to rank and assess the quality of methodological
search filters. His presentation will provide participants with the skills
needed to make informed decisions about when and which methodological search
filters to use.
Sari Ormstad, a research librarian at the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the
Health Services, Oslo, will
present on a new database that offers local decision-makers and health
personnel an overview of all current international assessments of new health
technologies and summarises those that are most relevant for them.
Miquel Mayer, Director of Web Mèdica Acreditada, an international accreditation
program of medical websites, will discuss the quality and use of health-related
websites, different strategies to select and improve their quality, and finally
how metadata and semantic web technologies could help users find the best
health information.
Elaine Alligood, an information specialist from Veterans Affairs Technology
Assessment Program, will update participants on current search engines and how
they can be used in HTA searches to complement traditional database searching.
Andrew Booth, Director of Information Resources at the School of Health &
Related Research (ScHARR), and Amanda Burls, Senior Clinical Lecturer and
Director of West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration, will
deliver a half-day bilingual (English and Spanish) critical appraisal workshop
in which they provide a "tapas" of critical appraisal skills and
techniques. The workshop will demonstrate that skills in critical appraisal can
be modeled and facilitated by library, information and other health staff
working locally.
Full details regarding conference registration are available at: http://www.htai.org/barcelona-2007/.
For more information, contact Becky Skidmore, IRG Chair: [log in to unmask] or Malene Fabricius
Jensen, IRG Chair-Elect: [log in to unmask].
Becky Skidmore
Medical Research Analyst / Analyste de recherche médicale
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada / La Société des obstétriciens et gynécologues du Canada (SOGC)
780, promenade Echo Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5R7
Phone / téléphone : 613 730 4192 ext 246
800-561-2416 ext 246
Fax / télécopieur : 613 730 4314
Email / courriel : [log in to unmask]
Web / Site Web : www.sogc.org
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