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

Format: 2-2 Comparison groups should be similar

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2-18 Don’t confuse “no evidence” with “no effect”

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Language/s: 3-5 How certain is the evidence?

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Short Description:

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

Key Concepts addressed:

• čeština
• Chinese
• Cartoons
• Choices: making informed choices
• Claims: are they justified?
• Comparisons: are they fair and reliable?
• dansk
• Deutsche
• Euskara
• Gaeilge
• 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
• 1-8 More is not necessarily better
• 1-7 Beware of conflicting interests
• 2-4 Comparison groups should be treated equally
• 1-6 Expert opinion is not always right
• 2-10 Peer-review and publication does not guarantee reliable information
• 2-11 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 1-3 Association is not the same as causation
• 1-4 Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 2-6 Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly
• 2-12 Subgroup analyses may be misleading
• 2-13 Relative measures of effects can be misleading
• 2-14 Average measures of effects can be misleading
• 2-1 Comparisons are needed to identify treatment effects

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.