Course content
The course introduces participants to the core aspects of preparing a Systematic Review, including Cochrane Reviews. The overall aim is that participants upon attending the course will be able to identify the key elements of the process of preparing a systematic review, such as formulation of a review question, searching for- and selecting studies, assessing risk of bias, performing meta-analysis and grading the certainty of the evidence.
After attending the course, participants should be able to:
- Identify the key elements of a review question
- Identify ways of formulating inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Identify methods for registering a study protocol
- Identify information sources when searching for studies
- Identify the elements of a search strategy
- Identify the key process of selecting studies
- Identify methods for assessing the risk of bias of the included studies
- Identify the steps involved in extracting data
- Identify ways of analysing and synthesising the data from included studies
- Identify methods for grading the certainty of the evidence
- Identify methods for presenting and interpreting results
- Identify resources for reference and for further study
Number of participants
Max. 30
Course fee
The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark and for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the "Open market agreement" and NorDoc agreement.
For other participants there is a course fee of DKK 2226,33,-