Please read the below information to see details on the plenary sessions, workshops, and oral presentations that were presented at the Symposium. Available slides for download are available in the workshop and oral presentation tables. As more slides are received more will be uploaded to this page.

Please click here to download a PDF version of our Symposium schedule.

 

Plenary Sessions

Please click on the presentations or podcasts below to download the plenary session slides or listen to the speakers.

Presenter Presentation Podcast
Dr. Trisha Greenhalgh New Methodologies for Systematic Review Click here to listen to Dr. Greenhalgh.
Dr. Tammy Clifford Tailored Approaches to Synthesizing HTAs at CADTH Click here to listen to Dr. Clifford.

Dr. Terry Klassen

 Assessing Quality or Risk of Bias Click here to listen to Dr. Klassen.
Dr. Doug Altman Coming Soon. Click here to listen to Dr. Altman.
Dr. Brian Haynes Dissemination of Evidence at the Bedside Click here to listen to
Dr. Haynes.
Dr. Martin Offringa Evidence Needs at the Bedside. Click here to listen to Dr. Offringa.
Dr. Sumit Majumdar Beyond Evidence: Why the Media, the Marketing, and the Messengers Might Matter More. Click here to listen to Dr. Majumdar.

 

Accepted Workshops

Title of Workshop Presenter
Knowledge Translation, the Missing Link in Evidence-Based Care Brian Haynes
Detection of Selective Reporting in Published Trials Doug Altman
Risk-of-bias tables in Cochrane reviews: the new tool for assessing methodological quality of included studies Doug Altman, David Moher, and Jennifer Tetzlaff
Knowledge transfer – demystifying and doing Cheryl Arratoon and Donna Angus
The “How to’s” of Appraising Rehabilitation Literature: A roll-up-the-sleeves hands-on approach  Allyson Jones and Donna Dryden
Unit of analysis issues in systematic reviews Craig Ramsay and Al Mayhew
Preparing Summary of Findings tables for Cochrane Reviews Nancy Santesso and Holger Schunemann
Systematic Reviews of Pharmacist Interventions: Focus on Searching, Interpreting, Evaluating and Disseminating

Ross Tsuyuki, Theresa Charrois, and Tamara Durec
Can narratives be used as a knowledge translation tool for Cochrane systematic reviews? Peter Tugwell, Terry Klassen, Vivian Robinson, Tamara Rader, Lisa Hartling, and Shannon Scott
Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis:  What, How, and Why? Ben Vandermeer

Systematic Reviews in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Controversies and solutions

Sunita Vohra, Margaret Sampson, Cecilia Bukutu, and Connie Winther
Second-Generation Knowledge Transfer: Conditions for Putting Knowledge Products to Work in New Ways

Kathleen Bloom, Margaret Chesterman, Erin Hobin, Jennifer Tomaszczyk, Karen Van Ootenghem,and Kate Wishart
Literature search peer review Jessie McGowan and Margaret Sampson

 

Accepted Oral Presentations

Title of Presentation Lead Presenter
Interventions to improve adherence to prescribed medications Elizabeth Ackloo
Adaptation of the GRADE method for developing recommendations on the use of insulin analogues for the management of diabetes mellitus Heather Bennett

Best practice in promoting practice-based evidence in nutrition and dietetics

Lynda Corby and Jayne Thirsk
Applying what we know about knowledge translation: Promoting uptake of review evidence for public health in Canada Maureen Dobbins
Systematic reviews of interrupted time series analyses: Issues concerning methods of analysis for individual studies and implications for pooling across studies Andrew Forbes
Systematic reviews of albumin to formulate and support evidence based health care provincial policy, utilization management, and guideline development

Patricia Fortin

Changing Professional Behaviour: An Updated Overview of Systematic Reviews

 Jeremy Grimshaw
Evaluating the effectiveness of search strategies for systematic reviews in zoonotic public health Janet Harris
Tertile analysis: A novel approach to test for publication bias Balraj S. Heran
Impact of experience on the accuracy and efficiency of data extraction in systematic reviews Jennifer Horton
Inter-rater reliability of a quality assessment tool for longitudinal studies Sathya Karunananthan
Is health equity considered in systematic reviews of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group? Lara Maxwell
Using Web-based Systematic Reviews for More Effective Clinical Research Peter O'Blenis
Linking research synthesis and risk-based tools: Addressing policy makers' needs in Public Health Andrijana Rajic
Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Instruments for Randomized Control Trials Vijay K. Shukla
The National Collaborating Centre Methods and Tools (NCCMT): Impact on Evidence-based Health Care and Systematic Review Methods

Helen Thomas
Agreements and disagreements in statistical inferences from the random-effects model meta-analyses calculated different between-study variance estimators Kristian Thorlund
Can trial sequential monitoring boundaries reduce spurious inferences from meta-analyses? Kristian Thorlund
Incorporating uncertainty of between-study variance estimates increases the reliability of random-effects model meta-analysis Kristian Thorlund
Estimating required information size and quantifying diversity in a meta-analysis Kristian Thorlund
A new Cochrane public health review group: experiences of transition and future directions Elizabeth Waters and Rebeca Armstrong
Microbial food safety of organic dairy production systems: A systematic review BJ Wilhelm
Making Cochrane Reviews More Accessible to Policymakers Michael Wilson
Beyond systematic reviews: translating reliable research evidence into policy and management decisions on women's and child's health in sub-Saharan Africa Charles Shey Wiysonge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

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For more information contact Krystal Harvey at krystal.harvey@ualberta.ca.