Satellite events

Meeting Summary/Description: This meeting is open to anyone with an interest in distilling the evidence in our topic areas. Our meeting in Prague is to help formalise our group and bring together a work plan.

Programme Information including times:     

• 1.30 – 3.00pm meeting
• 3-3.30pm Afternoon tea (and networking)
• 3.30-5.00 pm Meeting

Meeting Summary/Description:  

All are invited to the 4^th Evidence-Based Research (EBR) Conference hosted by the EBRNetwork!

The theme for this year’s conference is Bridging Silos. Keynote speakers and panels will address EBR Across Disciplines and EBR Moving Beyond the Global North.

Programme Information:

The one-day, in-person EBR Conference will be held on 9 September 2024 from 09:00 – 17:00 as a Satellite Meeting with the Global Evidence Summit. Please visit the EBRNetwork 4^th EBR Conference website for more information: https://ebrnetwork.org/4th-ebr-conference/

Where Can I Register:

• EBRNetwork members will be able to access discounted registration fees once logged into their EBRNetwork account.
• Non-members of the EBRNetwork can register by clicking here.

Become an EBRNetwork Member:

The cost of a 1-year membership is €75, with a discounted membership fee of €40 for students and for individuals from low or lower-middle-income economy countries (as defined by World Bank).

To join the EBRNetwork, click on one of the following links below:

• Individual Membership: click here
• Membership for Individuals from a LMIC: click here
• Student Membership: click here

More About the EBRNetwork:

The EBRNetwork’s vision is a world in which decisions about research are based on a transparent and systematic use of evidence. Over the last 10 years, we have diligently worked on projects, presentations, and publications to raise awareness of the importance of planning and reporting new scientific studies within the context of the existing evidence base to ensure that they are truly needed, and their results will be meaningful to end users, delivering optimal societal value and minimising research waste.

Following the successful EU-funded COST ACTION CA17117 EVidence-Based RESearch (EVBRES), we are now taking the EBRNetwork into its next phase as a not-for-profit organisation, working with a new hosting institution and expanding its horizons beyond healthcare and the Global North.

The EBRNetwork is registered as a not-for-profit organization in Norway. Earlier this year, we entered into a formal agreement with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) as our hosting institution. Their support for the EBRNetwork is long standing and in line with their strong commitment to the development and use of evidence syntheses, as illustrated by also serving as the hosting institution for Cochrane Norway.

For more information about the EBRNetwork, visit our website https://ebrnetwork.org/

Workshop Option 1: Certified Guideline Panel Member + Adolopment Module (8 hour workshop)

• Designed for individuals participating as a member of a Guideline Development Group

Workshop Option 2: Certified Guideline Methodologist Course (8 hour workshop)

• Designed for individuals participating in a Guideline Development Group in the role of an Expert Methodologist

Learn more about the INGUIDE Conference Courses: HERE

For any course related queries, please contact inguide@mcmaster.ca
 

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Meeting Summary/Description: This will be an opportunity for those involved in the automation of systematic review processes to meet to discuss the latest developments

Programme Information including times: 9-5 (provisional)

Speakers: tba

Target Audience: Previous attendees and those involved in automation (whether as developers, users, or policymakers in this area). Please note that the presentations and discussion will assume familiarity with the techniques and debates around automation and may contain technical information.

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Meeting Summary/Description: EPPI-Reviewer is a cloud-based systematic review platform that supports a wide range of reviews across numerous topics, as well as methodological research in evidence synthesis. It contains features to categorise data and enables reviewers to keep track of decision-making pathways throughout the process. Additionally, it includes cutting-edge machine learning technologies to make the reviewing process more efficient, such as ‘active learning’ for citation screening, ‘classifiers’ helping to retrieve references of a specific type, integration with large language models to assist with information extraction, and integration with OpenAlex that facilitates maintaining living reviews. Finally, EPPI-Reviewer enables reviewers to run meta-analyses, create evidence and gap maps (EPPI-Mapper), and publish online databases of their data (EPPI-Vis). EPPI-Reviewer has been part of the Cochrane ecosystem of tools since 2015 and is available for free for Cochrane and Campbell reviewers.

This workshop aims to introduce attendees to EPPI-Reviewer and its core concepts. By the end of this workshop, participants will gain a solid understanding of how to use EPPI-Reviewer to conduct reviews of various types and will be equipped with practical skills and knowledge to apply different features of EPPI-Reviewer, including machine learning technologies, to their use case.

This session will focus on the key elements of EPPI-Reviewer, its design principles, and latest innovations. The session will provide a comprehensive overview of the software, guide new users through how to get started, and demonstrate how various features of EPPI-Reviewer can enhance and facilitate the review process. The workshop will also include practical exercises and live demonstrations allowing attendees to get a real experience of working with the software and applying machine learning-based techniques to the screening process.

Programme Information including times:

Activities/Interaction Plan:

• Introduction to the facilitators; an online survey on attendees’ experience with digital evidence synthesis tools (5 mins)
• EPPI-Reviewer overview (10 mins)
• Live demonstration of the interface and main features (10 mins)
• Practical task – screening references with the assistance of machine learning (10 mins)
• Live demonstration – classifiers and clustering, automated data extraction (10 mins)
• Practical task – data extraction, reporting, data visualisation (10 mins)
• Q&A (5 mins)

Speakers: Anastasia Koryakina, Sergio Graziosi (EPPI-Centre, UCL)

Target Audience: The workshop is aimed at beginners who have never used any specialised evidence synthesis software as well as experienced systematic reviewers who are interested in innovations in the world of digital evidence synthesis tools. Previous experience with EPPI-Reviewer or any other digital tool for evidence synthesis is not required.

For any queries please contact Anastasia Koryakina at a.koryakina@ucl.ac.uk

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The NIKEZ 2024 Conference is the second annual conference of the National Institute for Quality and Excellence in Healthcare (NIKEZ). NIKEZ is an organizational unit that is a joint workplace of the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic and the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic. 

The conference will mainly focus on the main agendas of NIKEZ: 

• Data and information base – the evaluation system is based on the National Health Information System (NHIS), the National Social Information System, the Education Information System, and the CZ-DRG system 
• Standardization of care content and support of integrated care models, primarily developing and implementing Health guidelines and Rapid Recommendations 
• Management of internal evaluation of the quality of care: reporting system, evaluation, and prevention of adverse events, evaluation of patient satisfaction 
• Systems of internal and external data evaluation of health services 
• Institutionalization of assessment with a primary focus on centers of highly specialized care 
• Legislative background 

At the beginning of the conference, there will be a nationwide meeting of representatives of health service providers within the Adverse Event Reporting System. The next part of the conference will focus mainly on the achievements and outputs of NIKEZ to date. The following block will deal primarily with creating guidelines, rapid recommendations, and open data. The last part will be devoted to the status of recommended procedures and operative recommendations in the Czech legal system. 

For more information about the conference, please visit the official website.

Please note that the programme is exclusively in Czech and participation is limited to registered participants.

For any course related queries, please contact nikez@uzis.cz.

Meeting Summary/Description: Participation in this meeting is by invitation only. This is a WHO meeting with participation from selected invited country, regional and headquarters WHO staff, MOH representatives, academic institutions from countries WHO works with,  global partners and representatives from Collaborating Centers,  as well as collaborators supporting guideline development, adaptation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation in low- and middle-income countries. This is an ongoing work to advance global guidance and tool development to strengthen country-level capacity for evidence-based national adaptation of WHO-issued guidelines in low-resource settings. The meeting has the following three objectives:  

1. Share existing resources and experience on systematic adaptation led by WHO
2. Get input into an initial concept and outline of the guidance
3. Explore and build collaboration with relevant stakeholders to support countries to strengthen capacity on systematic adaptation

Program outline including times:      

9:00–10:45    Presentations, reflections, and discussions (WHO HQ, RO, CO and national partners)  

10:50–11:10   Tea break  

11:15–12:30   Presentations, reflections, and discussions (WHO HQ, WHO Collaborating Centers)  

12:30–13:30   Lunch 

13:35–14:40   Group work and share back  

14:45–15:00   Wrap up and conclusions  

15:00–16:00   Coffee and networking 

For any queries please email PDI@who.int