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• Identify current knowledge pertaining to a systematic review.

• Define evidence-based medicine and evidence pyramid
• Describe primary and secondary research
• Discuss systematic review and meta-analysis
• List the steps in conducting a systematic review

Interactive activity: Question and answers

• Formulate a research question utilizing PICO/PICOTS framework

Interactive activity: Formulating better research questions using PICO/PICOTS framework
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• Identify literature sources
• Describe inclusion and exclusion criteria
• Design search strategies

Interactive activity: Developing better search strategies utilizing PubMed
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• Discuss how to identify and remove duplicates
• Outline multi-stage screening steps
• Describe Rayyan software and its role in screening

Interactive activity: Using Rayyan software for an introduction to the screening step after importing a literature search result from PubMed
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• Develop a data extraction sheet
• Recognize how to systematically collect data

Interactive activity: Questions and answers

• Identify relevant characteristics for quality assessment

Interactive activity: Questions and answers

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• Summarize learning from Day 1.

Interactive activity: Questions and answers

• Discuss the difference between a qualitative and quantitative synthesis
• Review PRISMA guidelines for reporting systematic reviews

Interactive activity: Using PRISMA checklist to assess the reporting quality of published protocol
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• Identify the steps of a systematic review
• Assess the reporting of a systematic review

Interactive activity:  Case-based discussion
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• Define meta-analysis principles and relevance
• Examine quantitative synthesis elements
• List methods for investigating heterogeneity in a meta-analysis

Interactive activity: Identify and interpret elements of quantitative synthesis in one published systematic review and meta-analysis
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• Review assessment of certainty in the body of evidence
• Discuss tools to grade the quality of evidence

Interactive activity: Questions and answers

• Interpret meta-analysis parameters and results
• Discuss the quality of evidence drawn from a systematic review

Interactive activity:  Case-based discussion
Questions and answers

• Recognize why a protocol is a crucial step
• Review PRISMA guidelines for reporting a protocol
• Illustrate how to register a protocol

Interactive activity: Using PRISMA-P checklist to assess the reporting quality of published protocol
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• Summarize learning from Day 2
• Assess knowledge uptake from the workshop

Interactive activity: Questions and answers