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INTERESTED IN LITERATURE SEARCHING FOR HTA AND OTHER EVIDENCE SYNTHESES? THIS IS YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY! Join us for the two international full day pre-conference workshops at the 8th Annual Meeting of HTAi June 25th-26th, Rio de Janeiro http://www.htai2011.org/ Basic skills in literature searching for HTA Date: Saturday June 25th 2011 Organizers: The Information Resources Group of HTAi, the Brazilian Cochrane Centre and the Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre Content: This training day will alert participants to key issues for literature searching for HTA, the variation in approaches for different elements of the HTA process and the need to adapt the approaches to the requirements of the individual HTA. The sessions will involve: - Brief overview of what HTA involves - Key issues for literature searching to support HTA - Scoping and developing the research question - Searching approaches and techniques - Where to search - Downloading records, documenting and reporting the searches Advanced information retrieval methods to support HTA: regional databases, grey literature searching and identifying patients’ preferences Date: Sunday June 26th 2011 Organizer: The Information Resources Group of HTAi Content: This workshop will focus on advanced information retrieval methods to inform health technology assessment and will be composed of four sessions: - An introduction to HTA practice in Latin America - Effective searching of LILACS and other BIREME resources for HTAs and systematic reviews - Grey Matters! Identifying grey literature for health technology assessments and systematic reviews - Bringing social views into HTA: how can we extract relevant information about patient and citizen preferences and patient experiences from database and web based sources? Pre-conference workshops are open both to members and non-members of HTAi. For more information, please contact Sari Ormstad, HTAi Information Resources Group Chair: [log in to unmask]