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1 - Get Ready1 - Get Ready<h2> </h2><h2>Tuesday, 25 August <br></h2><hr /><h3> <span> <span> <strong>Value and types of systematic reviews</strong></span></span><br></h3><div> <strong>Welcome</strong>: Ingrid van der Westhuizen<br><strong>Presenter: Anel Schoonees</strong>, Researcher: Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences).<br></div><p><strong></strong><strong>Time</strong>: 9:00 – 10:00<br></p>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.<br><br><div>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.</div><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><a title="Watch Online" href="https://youtu.be/_SLvvXlFg6A" target="_blank"><img alt="Watch Online" src="/SiteCollectionImages/general/Watch%20online.png" style="margin:5px 0px;width:115px;" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> <div> <span> <h3><br><strong></strong></h3><h3><br><strong></strong></h3><h3><strong>Accessing systematic reviews</strong><br><span><span><strong></strong></span></span></h3></span></div> <span> <p> <strong>Welcome</strong>: Ingrid van der Westhuizen<br><strong>Presenter: Anel Schoonees</strong>, Researcher: Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Biostatistics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences).<br><strong>Time</strong>: 10:15 – 11:45<br></p></span><span lang="EN-US">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.</span><br> <br>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.<br> <div> <span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><a title="Watch Online" href="https://youtu.be/Kqx05pp1dS8" target="_blank"><img alt="Watch Online" src="/SiteCollectionImages/general/Watch%20online.png" style="margin:5px 0px;width:115px;height:36px;" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </div><h3><br><strong></strong></h3><h3><br><strong></strong></h3><h3><strong>Approach to reading systematic reviews</strong><br></h3><p> <span><span><span><strong>Welcome</strong>:<strong> </strong>Ingrid van der Westhuizen<br><strong>Presenter</strong>:<strong> </strong> <strong></strong><span><span><strong>Michael McCaul</strong>, Senior lecturer: Epidemiology and Biostatistics</span></span><br><strong>Time</strong>: 12:15 – 13:45</span></span></span><br></p> <span lang="EN-US"> </span> <span lang="EN-US">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.</span><br><br> <div><span lang="EN-US">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.<br><span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><a title="Watch Online" href="https://youtu.be/aDKAbwtOifM" target="_blank"><img alt="Watch Online" src="/SiteCollectionImages/general/Watch%20online.png" style="margin:5px 0px;width:115px;" /></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br> </div><div> <br> </div><h3><strong>SCOPUS – search strategies</strong></h3><p><strong>Presenter</strong>: Vendor session<br><strong>Time</strong>: 14:00 - 15:00<span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><span lang="EN-GB">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.<br></span><br><div><span lang="EN-GB">Learn about:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div><div><ul><li><span lang="EN-GB">The sophisticated tools and analytics, citation results, detailed researcher profiles, and insights that drive better decisions, actions and outcomes.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Evaluating authors, articles and journals</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Establishing trends in research</span></li><li>Finding the right journal to publish in    <span lang="EN-GB"></span><br><span lang="EN-GB"></span></li></ul></div><p><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB"><span><span><a title="Watch Online" href="https://youtu.be/NSTSfMc3cT8" target="_blank"><img alt="Watch Online" src="/SiteCollectionImages/general/Watch%20online.png" style="margin:0px;width:115px;" /></a></span></span></span><br> </span> </p>

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