Thursday, 13 January 2005: 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Hibiscus B (Hyatt Regency Miami)
Conducting Systematic Reviews
All-Day Workshops, Participants will learn how to conduct rigorous systematic reviews of empirical evidence that can inform stakeholders about the effects of social interventions. The workshop provides information, guidelines, and practical tools for planning and conducting systematic reviews, following standards developed by the international, interdisciplinary Campbell Collaboration and the Cochrane Collaboration. Topics include problem formulation and the scope of systematic reviews, protocol development, setting inclusion and exclusion criteria, information retrieval strategies, study eligibility decisions, data extraction, assessment of study quality, narrative summaries of studies and their results, quantitative synthesis and meta-analysis, and incorporation of qualitative data on implementation and intervention processes in systematic reviews.
Roundtable/Workshop Submitter(s)s:Betsey Becker, Michigan State University
Julia H. Littell, PhD, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Teresa Piggott, Loyola University Chicago
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