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Overview
Systematic reviews play a crucial role in this era of Evidence Based Medicine and clinical guidelines. Systematic reviews use a systematic and transparent approach to identify all relevant articles, appraise the risk of bias, examine sources of variation, and, if appropriate, meta-analyse the results of the primary studies.
Learning objectives
By the end of the Systematic Reviews in Intervention Research course from Utrecht University, you should be able to:- Explain the rationale for performing a systematic review
- List the key steps of a systematic review
- Formulate a proper review question addressing a therapeutic dilemma
- Understand the design of a comprehensive and efficient search strategy to identify relevant RCT’s in electronic bibliographic databases
- Explain the main types of bias in a therapeutic study
- Assess primary studies (RCT) for their risk of bias and report these findings
Programme Structure
By taking the program you will:
- Explain the difference between fixed and random effects approach and their assumptions
- Perform & interpret the findings of a meta-analysis (fixed & random approach)
- Interpret the different measures of heterogeneity
- Interpret the results of a meta-regression model
- List and explain the different types of reporting bias
- Critically appraise systematic reviews
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 21 days
- 14 hrs/week
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
1 ECTS
1.5 ECTS
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Management Studies Educational Research View 5 other Short Courses in Educational Research in NetherlandsAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
To enroll in this course, you need:
- A BSc degree in biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine or veterinary medicine, or a comparable degree
- Basic knowledge about epidemiology and statistical data analysis. Elevate courses offering this knowledge include Introduction to Epidemiology and Introduction to Statistics
- Basic understanding of the principles of clinical epidemiology, regarding the design, conduct & analysis of a therapeutic randomized controlled trial.
- Sufficient proficiency in English reading and writing
Tuition Fee
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EU/EEA
1030 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1030 EUR for the full programme during 21 days.
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