McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop Resources – Systematic review module

Format: 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar

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Language/s: 3-6 Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

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McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop – Systematic review module.

Key Concepts addressed:

• Chinese
• Choices: making informed choices
• čeština
• Claims: are they justified?
• Comparisons: are they fair and reliable?
• dansk
• Deutsche
• eesti
• français
• Greek
• Hrvatski
• italiano
• 1-1 Treatments can harm
• 1-10 Hope may lead to unrealistic expectations
• 1-11 Explanations about how treatments work can be wrong
• 1-12 Dramatic treatment effects are rare
• 1-9 Earlier is not necessarily better
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better
• 2-5 People should not know which treatment they get
• 2-16 Confidence intervals should be reported
• 2-11 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 2-12 Single studies can be misleading
• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 1-5 Newer is not necessarily better
• 2-7 All should be followed up
• 2-13 Relative measures of effects can be misleading
• 2-14 Average measures of effects can be misleading
• 2-15 Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
• 2-10 Peer-review and publication does not guarantee reliable information

Details

This is the Systematic review module resources provided to the attendees at the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop.

This contains:

• Clinical problem: an outline of the module objectives and a specialty-specific clinical scenario describing a patient problem relevant to the module (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics, and Surgery).
• Clinical article: one or more speciality-specific clinical papers pertinent to the problem posed in the scenario (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Paediatrics, and Surgery).
• Worksheet: Critical appraisal worksheet for organizing ideas as readers work through articles.

This package is one of several other packages included in the McMaster Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Workshop such as Therapy, Diagnosis, and Prognosis.