Continuing Education Program
We have two workshops scheduled for this year
- Clinical Trials July 2013
- Systematic Reviews August 2013
Clinical Trials
When: Monday 15 July 2013
Where: Norman Nock room 1, Kolling building, Royal North Shore Hospital
Cost:
- $140 per person inclusive of GST
- $100 per RRCS staff inclusive of GST
- $25 per NCS student inclusive of GST
At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
- identify 10 key design features important for minimising bias in randomised controlled trials (RCT)
- calculate the number of subjects required for a simple two group RCT
- distinguish between trials with negative results that do and do not provide evidence about treatment ineffectiveness
- calculate overall mean treatment effect (and corresponding 95% CI) from publications that only provide p values
- interpret overall mean treatment effect (and corresponding 95% CI) with respect to minimally worthwhile treatment effect
- discuss some of the practical challenges involved in running clinical trials
- design a simple two group RCT
- articulate the importance of restricting the number of primary outcome measures
- explain how to conceal allocation and test for success of blinding
- appreciate the difficulties associated with trying to compare many different interventions within the one trial
Registration essential, closing date 1 July 2013
Download a registration form here
Systematic Reviews
When: Thursday 1 August 2013
Where: Norman Nock room 1, Kolling building, Royal North Shore Hospital
Cost:
- $140 per person inclusive of GST
- $100 per RRCS staff inclusive of GST
- $25 per NCS student inclusive of GST
This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the following:
- different types of systematic reviews
- sources of bias within systematic reviews
- rating trials within systematic reviews for susceptibility to bias
- publication bias and funnel plots
- The Cochrane collection
- the steps involved in performing a systematic review
- search strategies
- extracting data for systematic reviews
- reading and interpreting mean between-group differences and corresponding 95% confidence intervals
- different ways of summarising data
- reading and interpreting forest plots
- meta-analyses: when they are and when they are not appropriate
- different types of statistical analyses
- software for conduting systematic reviews
Registration essential, closing date 18 July 2013
Download a registration form here
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