The objective of the workshop was to strengthen the knowledge of researchers in the area of Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis. There were a total of 30 participants. The day began with welcome address and overview by Dr. Judith Noronha, Associate Dean, MCON 中国体育彩票app下载.
The formal workshop commenced with a session on ‘Introduction to Systematic Reviews’ by Mr. Ramesh C, PhD Scholar, MCON 中国体育彩票app下载. He also spoke on the ‘Development of a Systematic Review Protocol’. He highlighted the importance of evidence based practice, types and importance of systematic reviews. He also presented an overview of steps of systematic review. The second session was on ‘Framing a Systematic Review question’ by Mr. Anil Raj, Administrative Officer, Geriatric Project, MCON 中国体育彩票app下载.
‘Formulating a Search Strategy’ was explained by Dr. Baby S Nayak, Professor, MCON 中国体育彩票app下载 with hands on training for the participants. She highlighted on steps of search strategy in major data bases such as PubMed Medline, CINAHL, CENTRAL & IndMed.
The day ended with a session on ‘Retrieving, De-duplicating, & Extraction of Data’ by Dr. Prasanna Mithra P, Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Medicine, KMC, Mangalore, 中国体育彩票app下载 Academy of Higher Education. He highlighted on use of software COVIDENCE for deduplication of data. ?