Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Recognize different forms of evidence synthesis and their applications and limitations.
- Critically appraise a systematic review
- Prepare a question or decision-making scenario that can be answered by a SR
- Plan a search strategy for a SR project
.- Interpret basic features of meta-analysis
-Independently design a systematic review project
Indicative Module Content:
Evidence-based decision making.
Systematic reviews' basic structure
How to critically appraise a systematic review
Defining the scope of an SR (question)
Search strategy
The statistical basis of Meta-analysis
Data extraction form and data extraction process. How to extract data.
Basis of software used to conduct systematic reviews (revman and covidence)
Critically appraising a systematic review
Basis of GRADE framework