EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND META-ANALYSES
December 14, 2023 2024-09-25 12:10EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND META-ANALYSES
EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND META-ANALYSES
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| Type|Type of Course: | OP | SCIENTIFIC AREA | |||||||||||||
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| Teaching Semester: | 14th Semester | |||||||||||||
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| Hours per week: | 2 hours | |||||||||||||
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| Total Time (Teaching Hours + Student Workload) | 54 Hours | |||||||||||||
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| Prerequisites: | NO | |||||||||||||
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| Language of Instruction: | Greek | |||||||||||||
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| Available for Erasmus: | YES | |||||||||||||
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| Semester Lectures: | Coming Soon… | |||||||||||||
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| Teaching Method: | LECTURES Face to face in the Department's IT lab and in the auditorium
COMPULSORY PRESENTATION NO Lectures in powerpoint format In each lesson, laboratory exercises are carried out on a computer Use of T.P.E. in communication with students (website, e-mail, etc.) |
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| Evaluation Method: |
The evaluation of the students is done in Greek with a written assignment. |
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| Objective Objectives/Desired Results: | The general purpose of the course is to introduce students to the principles of Evidence-Based Medicine and the methodology of Meta-Analyses and to enable them to evaluate and interpret the results of published clinical studies with the ultimate goal of applying them in clinical practice.
The specific objectives of the course are specialized in the following intended learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: He/she will be able to use the acquired knowledge in order to:
General Skills Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies Decision making Autonomous work Teamwork Work in an international environment Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking |
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| Course URL : | http://biomath.med.uth.gr | |||||||||||||
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| Course Description: | • Categories of medical research and the pyramid of indications. • Search for clinical studies and sources of clinical information (eg Cochrane Library, etc.). • Critical methodological/statistical evaluation of clinical studies. • Clinical Review Methodology 1: checking for published reviews, formulating the clinical question and developing the systematic review protocol and planning the search and conducting a literature search. • Clinical Review Methodology 2. Selection of studies, data extraction and interpretation of results • Meta-analysis 1: Synthesis of results of clinical studies when there is no heterogeneity between studies. • Meta-analysis 2. Calculation and investigation of heterogeneity between studies.. • Meta-analysis 3: Synthesis of results of clinical studies when there is heterogeneity between studies. • Meta-analysis 4: Checking for errors, • Evaluation of the quality of the studies with the CONSORT, STROBE and PRISMA tools. • Decision making with a statistical approach. • Diagnostic studies 1: diagnostic indicators and assessment of study quality based on the STARD questionnaire. • Diagnostic studies 2: systematic review and meta-analysis |
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| Recommended reading: | Teaching notes are distributed:
PMS "Biomedical Research Methodology, Biostatistics and Clinical Bioinformatics", Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly
PMS "Biomedical Research Methodology, Biostatistics and Clinical Bioinformatics" Department of Medicine, University of Thessaly In addition, the following bibliography is indicated Anne Whitehead, Meta-Analysis Of Controlled Clinical Trials, Wiley, 2013 Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions version 6.2 The Cochrane Collaboration. Cochrane, 2021 |
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