Medical research
Course 4: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Goals of the research course?
- Preparing protocol and search strategy
- Screening, Extraction and Quality Assessment
- Introduction to Meta-Analysis
- Advanced Meta-analysis
- Common mistakes and how to avoid them
Dr. Muhammed Elhadi
Doctor, Researcher
MBBCh – Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli
Course Description
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis By Dr. Muhammed Elhadi
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Amazing Course
In this course, you will learn the principles of systematic review and meta-analysis
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Course Details
Course Duration
Approx. 2 months
Course Price
450 LYD / 100$
Course Level
Beginner
Course Description
By the end of the course, you will learn:
Introduction
- Introduction to Systemic reviews and meta-analysis
- The shift from narrative reviews to systematic reviews
- Main steps of systemic reviews and meta-analysis
- Formulate research question and ensure originality of your idea (PICO)
- Developing criteria for systemic review
- Prisma Statement 2020
Preparing protocol and search strategy
- Writing protocol and registering the protocol in PROSPERO
- How to develop search terms for each database
- Searching in literature and scientific databases
- Search in Pubmed
- Search in Scopus
- Search in Embase and Medline (OVID)
- Search in VHL
- Search in Cochrane Library
- Search in Web of Science
- Search in ClinicalTrials.gov
- Search in New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
- Search in System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe (SIGLE)
- Search in Google Scholar
- Search in CINAHL
- Extract search results using Endnote and Removing Duplicates
- PRISMA – Flow Diagram
Screening and Extraction and Quality Assessment
- Introduction to Screening & Extraction
- Initial Screening and identifying eligible articles for inclusion
- Full text download
- Full text screening
- How to develop extraction sheet
- How to extract data
- Quality assessment of studies
- Quality assessment of RCTs by Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool (ROB 2)
- Quality assessment of non-randomized studies of interventions by ROBINS
- Quality assessment of observational studies by Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS)
- Manual searching
- Baseline Characteristics Table
- Data Cleaning Before Doing Analysis
- Some calculations for missing or non-reported data
Introduction to Meta-Analysis
- Introduction to Meta-analysis
- Some Definitions
- Interpretation of forest plots
- How to choose an effect‐size index
- Effect Sizes Based on Means
- Effect Sizes Based on Binary Data
- Effect Sizes Based on Prevalence
- Fixed-effect and random-effects models
- Heterogeneity
- I2
Publication Bias
- Publication bias
Advanced Meta-analysis
- Subgroup analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
- Meta-regression analysis technique: concept, procedures, and interpretation
Writing Up
- How to write and prepare a systemic review and meta-analysis paper
Examples and Issues in Meta-analysis
- Critical conceptual issues in meta-analysis
- How to avoid common mistakes in meta-analysis
- Meta-analysis examples (workshop)
Key Features
- Practical
- Comprehensive
- Interactive
- Final Exam
- Completion certificate
About the Course Instructor
- MBBCh from Faculty of Medicine, University of Tripoli
- Founder of Libyan Medical Research Network
- Reviewer at over 40 international peer-review journals
- Editor at PLOS ONE and BMC Public Health and BMC Medical Education
- Worked on more than 50 International Projects including:
African Surgical Outcomes-2
GlobalSurg 3
GlobalPaed Surg
COVIDSurg / COVIDSurg Cancer - Chair of Incision – International Student Surgical Network – NWG of Libya
- Have more than 50 posters and oral presentations at prestigious international conferences
- Participated as speaker and presenter at: AHA, ASiT, ACOG, Digestive Week, AACR, EACR….
- Have more than 70 published/accepted in international peer-review journals with impact factors in various surgical and medical specialties
- Won over 15 awards and grants from international societies and conferences