Tuesday, 25 August
Value and types of systematic reviews
Welcome: Ingrid van der Westhuizen
Presenter:
Anel Schoonees, Researcher: Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences).
Time: 9:00 – 10:00
The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) within the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SU) are presenting three webinars to explain the value of using *systematic reviews in decision-making, explain how systematic reviews questions are phrased, how to search for systematic reviews, and the approach to reading systematic reviews.
During session 1 the focus will be on the different types of healthcare questions as well as examples of PICO formulation for quantitative and qualitative research.
Accessing systematic reviews
Welcome: Ingrid van der Westhuizen
Presenter:
Anel Schoonees, Researcher: Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences).
Time: 10:15 – 11:45
The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) within the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SU) are presenting three webinars to explain the value of using *systematic reviews in decision-making, explain how systematic reviews questions are phrased, how to search for systematic reviews, and the approach to reading systematic reviews.
During session 2 the focus will be on Searching for systematic reviews in Medline PubMed and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Other databases that will be briefly referred to include the TRIP database, Epistemonikos, EBSCOhost Academic Search premier, CINAHL, Africa-Wide Information.
Approach to reading systematic reviews
Welcome: Ingrid van der Westhuizen
Presenter:
Michael McCaul, Senior lecturer: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Time: 12:15 – 13:45
The Centre for Evidence-based Health Care (CEBHC) within the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SU) are presenting three webinars to explain the value of using *systematic reviews in decision-making, explain how systematic reviews questions are phrased, how to search for systematic reviews, and the approach to reading systematic reviews.
During session 3 the focus will be on navigating through the question and methods, interpreting the results, and considering the applicability of the findings for decision-making.
SCOPUS – search strategies
Presenter: Vendor session
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Scopus indexes content from 24 600 active titles and 5 000 publishers which is rigorously vetted and selected by an independent review board, and uses a rich underlying metadata architecture to connect people, published ideas and institutions.
Learn about:
- The sophisticated tools and analytics, citation results, detailed researcher profiles, and insights that drive better decisions, actions and outcomes.
- Evaluating authors, articles and journals
- Establishing trends in research
- Finding the right journal to publish in
