Systematic Reviews in Intervention Research
Master
Online
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One Education
Course Online£ 425 -
International Career Institute
Course Distance Learning£ 798 -
Open Learning College
Course Distance Learning£ 280 £ 350 -
GIMS - Global Institute of Medical Sciences
Training Distance LearningPrice on request -
Systematic Training and Trading
Short course Distance LearningPrice on request -
College of Venereal Disease Prevention
Short course Online£ 328 VAT inc. -
Open Colleges
Course OnlinePrice on request
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Description
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Type
Master
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Methodology
Online
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Duration
3 Weeks
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Online campus
Yes
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Delivery of study materials
Yes
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Support service
Yes
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Virtual classes
Yes
Systematic reviews play a crucial role in this era of Evidence Based Medicine and clinical guidelines. Systematic reviews use a systematic and transparent approach to identify all relevant articles, appraise the risk of bias, examine sources of variation, and, if appropriate, meta-analyse the results of the primary studies.
About this course
This course will offer a mix of lectures and practicals that will help the student to perform all of these steps in practice. In addition, specific challenges to systematic reviews and new developments will be highlighted.
• A BSc degree in biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine or veterinary medicine, or a comparable degree
• Basic knowledge about epidemiology and statistical data analysis. Elevate courses offering this knowledge include Introduction to Epidemiology and Introduction to Statistics
• Basic understanding of the principles of clinical epidemiology, regarding the design, conduct & analysis of a therapeutic randomized controlled trial.
• Sufficient proficiency in English reading and writing
Reviews
Subjects
- Risk
- Approach
- Primary
- IT risk
- Rationale
- Performing
- Systematic
- Steps
- Systematic Review
- Addressing
- Therapeutic
- Dilemma
Course programme
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
- Explain the rationale for performing a systematic review
- List the key steps of a systematic review
- Formulate a proper review question addressing a therapeutic dilemma
- Understand the design of a comprehensive and efficient search strategy to identify relevant RCT’s in electronic bibliographic databases
- Explain the main types of bias in a therapeutic study
- Assess primary studies (RCT) for their risk of bias and report these findings
- Explain the difference between fixed and random effects approach and their assumptions
- Perform & interpret the findings of a meta-analysis (fixed & random approach)
- Interpret the different measures of heterogeneity
- Interpret the results of a meta-regression model
- List and explain the different types of reporting bias
- Critically appraise systematic reviews
Systematic Reviews in Intervention Research
-
One Education
Course Online£ 425 -
International Career Institute
Course Distance Learning£ 798 -
Open Learning College
Course Distance Learning£ 280 £ 350 -
GIMS - Global Institute of Medical Sciences
Training Distance LearningPrice on request -
Systematic Training and Trading
Short course Distance LearningPrice on request -
College of Venereal Disease Prevention
Short course Online£ 328 VAT inc. -
Open Colleges
Course OnlinePrice on request
See all