Title: CERTaIN: Knowledge Synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making

Location: US

Company: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston

About this course:
Discover practical ways to critically appraise scientific literature, including the conduction and interpretation of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Additionally, you will learn how to conduct literature searches using online academic databases, hear about economic evaluations, and understand how clinical practice guidelines are used to guide decision making.
This course includes the following 11 lectures:

Overview of Systematic Reviews

Finding and Managing the Evidence from the Biomedical Literature

Intervention Reviews Methodology

Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials: Direct Comparisons

Introduction to Meta-Analysis: Indirect Comparisons

Meta-Analysis of Non-Randomized Studies

Diagnostic Test Evaluation

Meta-Synthesis

Clinical Practice Guidelines

Economic Evaluation

Decision Analysis for Outcomes Research

This course is intended for anyone interested in comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) methods.
This course is supported by grant number R25HS023214 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses using academic databases and interpret and report results

Define strategies for critically appraising the literature

Describe economic evaluation methods

Describe how decisions can be made using clinical practice guidelines

Learn how to interpret and report systematic review and meta-analysis results, and define strategies for searching and critically appraisingscientific literature.

Duration: 5 weeks

Skills:
- Clinical Practices
- Clinical Trials
- Decision Making
- Outcomes Research
- Research
- Scientific Literature

Curriculum:
- Conduct systematic reviews and meta-analyses using academic databases and interpret and report results
- Define strategies for critically appraising the literature
- Describe economic evaluation methods

- Describe how decisions can be made using clinical practice guidelines