Workshop/Training

The satellite aims to support EPOC review authors in the Australasian region through direct author contact, workshops and reviewer work-ins. The satellite holds an annual complex intervention workshop and organised a knowledge translation workshop in March 2008. If you are interested in future events, please refer to this website or register for the newsletter.

Future Events

Assessing complex interventions in Cochrane Systematic Reviews Workshop (Thursday 27th November 2008)

EPOC Satellite is hosting a Complex Interventions Workshop in Melbourne on Thursday 27th November 2008. This workshop will focus on providing information and stimulating discussion about systematic reviews of complex health care interventions and relevant outcomes.  Complex interventions include those which are multifaceted, difficult to define, and difficult to find. Considerations for defining the research questions, searching for primary studies, making decisions about study design criteria, systematic review methodology, appropriate data extraction, challenges with analysis, presentation of results and writing the recommendation sections will be discussed.

This workshop is targeted to individuals who are familiar with systematic reviews and priority will be given to those involved in Cochrane systematic reviews.

Workshop flyer and registration form is available below:

» Download: Flyer and registration form (PDF, 169kb)

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EPOC Reviewer Work-ins

Cochrane EPOC review authors based in the Australasian region are invited to visit the satellite editorial base at the National Institute of Clinical Studies in Melbourne to progress their protocols and reviews with the help of experienced review authors. If you are interested in taking up this opportunity please email Emma Tavender (emma.tavender@nhmrc.gov.au) to arrange a visit.

Australasian Cochrane Centre Training

The Australasian Cochrane Centre develops and co-ordinates training for review authors and users of reviews in Australasia. New review authors are encouraged to attend a ‘Developing a protocol for a systematic review’ workshop and ‘Introduction to analysis’ workshop. Further information on these courses can be found at the following website: http://www.cochrane.org.au/training/workshops.php

16th Cochrane Colloquium: Evidence in the Era of Globalisation

Freiburg, Germany 3 - 7 October 2008
Each year an international Cochrane Colloquium is held to introduce The Cochrane Collaboration and its achievements to those interested in using the best available evidence to inform healthcare decision making; to provide members of the Collaboration with an opportunity to hold meetings and to advance their knowledge and skills; and to provide a forum to discuss future directions of the organisation. 

This year the colloquium will be held in Freiburg, Germany with a theme of  ‘Evidence in the Era of Globalisation’. Registration and program information can be found at the following website: http://www.colloquium.info

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Past Events

Complex intervention workshop

Presentations from the workshop are available as a 1MB zip file.

» Download Complex interventions (ZIP - 1MB)

Knowledge translation workshop: Translating Research into Policy and Practice
Friday 14th March 2008

» Download: The program and slides from the day (ZIP - 2.3MB)

Program

What do users of evidence want: a clinician’s perspective
Peter Greenberg, Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne

What do users of evidence want: a policy maker’s perspective
Adam Chapman, Victorian Department of Human Services

What do users of evidence want: a consumer’s perspective
Helen Dilkes, Health Knowledge Network, La Trobe University

What do we mean by knowledge translation?
Jeremy Grimshaw, Cochrane EPOC Group, Ottawa Health Research Institute and University of Ottawa

Systematic reviews as content for knowledge translation: what strategies can we use to help policy makers use Cochrane reviews? The Policy Liaison Initiative
Sally Green, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University

Context and applicability: Global Evidence Mapping Initiative
Russell Gruen, Cochrane EPOC Group and Royal Melbourne Hospital

Systematic reviews of mixed evidence for policy makers
Nicholas Mays, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The current evidence base for knowledge translation, identified gaps and ways to move forward?
Jeremy Grimshaw, Cochrane EPOC Group, Ottawa Health Research Institute and University of Ottawa

Examples of implementation cluster trials: experiences, methodological challenges and theory-based intervention development
Denise O’Connor, Simon French, Joanne McKenzie, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Monash University

Knowledge translation in action
Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters, Cochrane Public Health Group, University of Melbourne

Training - online

Open Learning Materials - learn the steps in convenient online modules which supplement the Cochrane Reviewers' Handbook in helping you gain skills and complete your review.

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