Systematic Review Part II: How to conduct a systematic review (2 day course)

Date: early 2020

Location: Belgian Red Cross, Mechelen

Price: € 200. You will receive an invoice at registration (see link below) and you can make the costs payable to account number BE20 7340 3366 3756 (BIC: KREDBEBB) with the announcement 'SR II 2019 + name of participant'.

Programme: ​click here to download the programme

Registration: Registration will open a few months before the actual course

Target population:

• Health care professionals and researchers actively involved in performing a Cochrane systematic review. Ideally, participants have already finished their protocol. This course is also open to authors of non-Cochrane systematic reviews. 

Aim / Content:

This course aims to provide knowledge so reviewers are able to perform and finalize a Cochrane systematic review. It covers all steps of such a review:

• Searching and selecting studies;
• Critical appraisal;
• Data extraction;
• Data-analysis, including pooling data, how to handle and interpret heterogeneity, publication bias;
• Use of RevMan Software

Participants are required:

• To have finished the protocol of their Cochrane systematic review;
• To have basic knowledge of systematic reviews (for example by participation in part I of this course ‘How to write a protocol’);  
• To have basic knowledge of the Review Manager software (for example, entering text for the protocol and importing and linking references)
• Participants with a laptop are requested to install the RevMan software​ ​and bring their laptop to the course.

Hands-on experience:

The course consists of plenary sessions and workshops. Participants get hands-on experience with all review-steps. During the workshops the RevMan software will be used. There is ample time to discuss individual problems of ongoing Cochrane review projects with the teachers.

Language:

This course is taught in English

 For more practical information, please contact katrien.willemsens@cebam.be.