Upcoming Workshops
Conducting Accelerated Systematic Reviews
Workshop series
About these workshops
Workshops will be held on Tuesday evenings or Wednesday mornings on a fortnightly basis commencing on 6 August 2024. Scroll down to see dates and further information.
The Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare is offering a series of ONLINE live interactive workshops on how to do systematic reviews with a focus on how to improve the speed and efficiency of the review process.
The workshops will outline the tasks involved at each of the key steps of the review process and introduce participants to the freely available Systematic Review Accelerator (SRA) tools that can be used to complete these tasks more quickly with tips from experienced systematic reviewers and links to key resources provided.
These workshops are for, clinicians, students, researchers, policy makers and information professionals who are currently doing or planning to do a systematic review and would like to learn to do them more efficiently.
To benefit from these workshops, you should:
- be conducting or have conducted a systematic review, or
- be intending to do a systematic review AND have a good understanding of what systematic reviews are, how they are done, and what constitutes a good quality systematic review. To help you prepare we will provide background material covering these concepts that you can complete before the workshops.
The series consists of five workshops that cover the key review stages and an additional workshop covering other topics relevant to systematic reviews. Some advanced review concepts may also be covered depending on participants' requirements. You can attend all the workshops, or just the specific workshops that meet your needs.
Individual Workshops 1 to 5 cost AUD$95 each. We are also offering a FULL package deal which includes Workshops 1 to 5 plus access to Workshop 6 at AUD$400.
Workshops
Register by clicking on the links below. Please note registration for the full package deal closes on Monday, 5 August 2024 at 12pm AEST.
Closing dates for individual workshop registrations are listed below each workshop.
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Full package deal
A selection of dates is available - sessions are presented 5pm Tuesday evenings or 8am Wednesday mornings every fortnight starting 6 August – 30 October 2024. After registration participants will be contacted to choose suitable dates.
- Workshop 1: Planning the systematic review (6 or 7 August)
- Workshop 2: Designing and conducting a systematic search (20 or 21 August)
- Workshop 3: Screening and selecting studies (3 or 4 September)
- Workshop 4: Extracting data, assessing studies, and presenting findings (1 or 2 October)
- Workshop 5: Synthesising studies (with and without meta-analysis) and heterogeneity (15 or 16 October)
- Workshop 6: Miscellaneous systematic review topics (29 or 30 October)
Register here. Please note registration closes on Monday, 5 August 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 1: Planning the systematic review
This workshop covers the critically important aspects of planning a systematic review including justifying the need for the review, formulating a focused review question and assembling a review team. You will learn how to efficiently write a protocol for a systematic review using the SRA Methods Wizard tool.
Dates:
6 August 2024 (5-6:30pm) OR
7 August 2024 (8-9:30am)Please note registration closes on Monday, 5 August 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 2: Designing and conducting a systematic search
This workshop covers how to develop and conduct an efficient systematic search for published and unpublished studies. You will learn how to develop database searches, using the freely available SRA tools.
Dates:
20 August 2024 (5-6:30pm) OR
21 August 2024 (8-9:30am)Please note registration closes on Monday, 19 August 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 3: Screening and selecting studies
This workshop covers the screening and selection of studies step in the systematic review process. You will learn about the process and how to make completion of this step easier and faster, using the freely available SRA tools.
Dates:
3 September 2024 (5-6:30pm) OR
4 September 2024 (8-9:30am)Please note registration closes on Monday, 2 September 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 4: Extracting data, assessing studies, and presenting findings
This workshop covers data extraction and preparation for analysis, assessment of risk of bias and presentation of this information. You will learn about the principles of good practice, some strategies and free resources that can help with completing this labour intensive stage of the review.
Dates:
1 October 2024 (5-6:30pm) OR
2 October 2024 (8-9:30am)Please note registration closes on Monday, 30 September 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 5: Synthesising studies (with and without meta-analysis) and heterogeneity
This workshop covers when and how to conduct a meta-analysis and how to perform a narrative synthesis when a meta-analysis is not possible or appropriate. You will learn about assessing heterogeneity and how to handle and explain it appropriately.
Dates:
15 October 2024 (5-6:30pm) OR
16 October 2024 (8-9:30am)Please note registration closes on Monday, 14 October 2024 at 12pm AEST.
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Workshop 6: Miscellaneous systematic review topics
This workshop will cover aspects of good systematic review practice such as assessing the certainty of evidence in systematic reviews with GRADE, writing up and publishing reviews, and advanced topics to be determined based on interest.
Dates:
29 October 2024 (5-6pm) OR
30 October 2024 (8-9am)If you register for one or more of our individual workshops, you will be invited to attend this workshop on your preferred date and time.
We offer various time zone-friendly options. Our policy states that no refunds will be issued for incorrect time zone conversions, so please check the time in your time zone before registering. All times indicated are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) / UTC+10.
For any further information or enquires about these workshops, please contact Melanie at [email protected]