Training and Webinars

Overview

Join us to learn:

• How to run advance searches
• How to use the Search Manager
• New PICO search
• How to use MeSH

Presenters

Ale Barciela, Customer Experience Training Manager, Wiley.

Ale Barciela has over 10 years of experience with Wiley working in different roles in editorial, marketing, product development, and customer success. As a Training Manager, Ale works with institutions, universities, corporations and consortia globally making sure that users and administrators are equipped to make the most out of Wiley’s products and content. She is passionate about learning technology and education

Colleen Finley, Product Manager, Wiley.

With over 34 years of experience in publishing, Colleen has an extensive background in product management for digital platforms, with emphasis on database creation and search. As a Product Manager for Wiley Online Library and Cochrane Library search, she evaluates user needs and creates requirements for new features. Prior to joining Wiley, Colleen worked at Elsevier as Online Product manager for Embase.

ONLINE PLATFORM

GoToWebinar

This workshop will lead attendees through the complete process of guideline development with GRADE using a concrete example, starting with the selection of a relevant PICO question and ending with the formulation of a recommendation. The GRADEpro GDT software is used for this purpose. The thematic focus is on assessing the certainty of the underlying evidence as well as the strength of the recommendation. In lectures, we introduce GRADE and explain its use with examples.

Attendees will be enabled to understand the basic principles of the GRADE approach and be able to comprehend the individual steps in the assessment of the evidence and their impact on the strength of the recommendation; be able to create an evidence profile for a therapeutic intervention based on a systematic review; & have a basic understanding of the GRADE Software

Dates: 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th & 15th October

Time: 10:15 – 13:45

Places: 24 available for individuals who are resident in Ireland & Northern Ireland

Skill Level: Introductory

Target Audience: Systematic review authors, guideline developers, health and social care professionals, academics, researchers, postgraduate students, decision makers, Evidence Synthesis Ireland Fellows and other professionals

Prerequisites: Knowledge in conducting and/or using systematic reviews as well as the basic principles of evidence-based healthcare, and the critical appraisal of research studies, especially RCTs

Teaching Strategies: The workshop will consist of a mixture of presentations and exercises in small groups

Facilitators:

Ingrid Töws (Institute for Evidence in Medicine, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany)

Dr Nuala Livingstone (Cochrane)

Dr Chris Noone (NUI Galway)

Dr Heiki Raatz (Institute for Evidence in Medicine, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany) 

Dr Blin Nagavci (Institute for Evidence in Medicine, University Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany)

The webinar will discuss how strong international collaborative activity during COVID-19 can produce quality evidence rapidly. A World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned Cochrane Rapid Scoping Review on the use of care bundles for patients with COVID-19 in the ICU will be used as the exemplar case. The review was commissioned by the WHO to inform interim clinical guidelines for clinicians caring for patients with COVID-19, so speed was of the essence (three-week timeframe), but so too was quality. The webinar will discuss how good communication and collaboration was critical in the process, and at what stages, and decisions taken to balance speed and quality in an era of rapid evidence need.

Valerie is a Professor in Midwifery at the School of Nursing & Midwifery Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and a registered General Nurse, Midwife and Clinical Nurse Teacher. She has expertise across a range of evidence synthesis activities, including reviews of randomised and non-randomised trials, case-control studies, rapid review, and qualitative evidence syntheses. Valerie is a Cochrane Ireland and UK Senior systematic review trainer since 2015. She has mentored two Cochrane Fellows and 1 ESI Fellow to completion and is currently mentoring two ESI Fellows. Valerie is a member of the Executive Board of the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Research Network (and TCD’s representative Partner in the Network’s recently successful 5-year renewal), an Executive Committee member of Evidence Synthesis Ireland, and an invited member of the Expert Advisory Group for the National Maternity and Gynaecology Clinical Guideline Programme.

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Pre-requisite: Participants will be expected to have conducted a systematic review of quantitate research, and to have knowledge of the methods for qualitative evidence synthesis

Background: In addition to understanding “what works” policy makers and practitioners often need to understand how something works, the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention, how best to implement it or whether there are unintended consequences. They may also want to understand how people value particular outcomes, or why differences in impact are seen. Qualitative evidence can often speak to these issues. Bringing together the insights from both quantitative and qualitative evidence can enhance the completeness, relevance or interpretation of the evidence base.

There are a number of ways in which quantitative and qualitative evidence can inform each other and a range of approaches and methods for mixed methods synthesis depending on the questions being asked and the data available which will be explore in this workshop.

Aim: To introduce approaches, tools and methodologies for mixed methods systematic reviews and syntheses.

The objective of this workshop is to provide an overview of:

• Approaches, tools and methodologies for mixed methods systematic reviews and syntheses

• When mixed methods design might be appropriate and appropriate designs

• How to formulate mixed methods review questions

• Approaches to searching, study selection, data extraction and critical appraisal

To provide hands-on exercises relevant to mixed methods systematic reviews and syntheses

Learning Outcomes: In this course participants will be enabled to:

• Develop appropriate questions for mixed methods systematic reviews

• Consider appropriate approaches and tools for addressing these questions

• Be aware of the implications for searching, quality appraisal and synthesis of mixed methods systematic reviews

Date: 3rd & 5th November 2021

Time: 13:00 – 16:30pm (3rd) & 09:30 – 13:00 (5th)

Places: 30 available for individuals who are resident in Ireland & Northern Ireland

Skill Level: Introductory

Target Audience: Healthcare professionals, academics, researchers, decision makers, librarians, information specialists, and Evidence Synthesis Ireland fellows and teaching faculty who would like to learn more.

Teaching Strategies: The workshop will consist of a mixture of short presentations, small group work and plenary discussion.

Facilitator: 

Prof. Ruth Garside, Associate Professor in Evidence Synthesis, European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter.

This workshop provides authors, at the beginning of the QES process, with a comprehensive overview of Qualitative Evidence Synthesis and how Cochrane QES reviews are structured. It offers an insight into the development of a Cochrane protocol, introducing participants to Cochrane methodology, search methods, data extraction and meta-synthesis. In this course, participants will be enabled to:

• Understand the basic principles of a qualitative evidence synthesis

• Identify the scope of their review

• Understand search methods and apply these methods to their search strategy

• Apply the criteria for selecting studies

• Understand the principles of extracting and synthesising findings from a QES

• Understand the application of Grade CERQual to QES findings

Date: 9th & 10th November 2021

Time: 9:30am – 1:30pm (both days)

Places: 30 available for individuals who are resident in Ireland & Northern Ireland

Skill Level: Introductory

Target Audience: Healthcare professionals, academics, researchers and ESI fellows who have identified a QES review topic and are ready to begin working on their protocol

Teaching Strategies: The workshop will consist of a mixture of short presentations, led by members of the ESI teaching faculty, covering each of the stages of developing a QES. Breakout rooms will be used for small group activities based around worked examples and exercises and plenary discussions, providing participants with the opportunity to discuss and develop their understanding of the QES process. Participants will also be provided with a short reading list in advance of the workshop.

Facilitators: 

Dr Linda Biesty is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery at the School of Nursing & Midwifery in NUI Galway

Dr Pauline Meskell is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing & Health Research at the Department of Nursing & Midwifery in the University of Limerick

Dr Catherine Houghton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery in NUI Galway

Dr Maura Dowling is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery in NUI Galway

*THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS CURRENTLY AND EXCLUSIVELY ENGAGED IN DELIVERING CLINICAL CARE IN IRELAND OR NORTHERN IRELAND.

The aim of the workshop is to give confidence to read and interpret research evidence, such that one is equipped to use evidence in decision-making. The main focus of the workshop is the use and critical appraisal of systematic reviews to support in decision-making.

Date: 17th November 2021

Time: 8.30am – 12.00 pm

Target Audiences and Places: 30 places available for healthcare practitioners currently and exclusively engaged in delivering clinical care in Ireland or Northern Ireland. Those currently engaged in research only or with a joint post are not eligible; but please email expressions of interest in a future workshop to esi@nuigalway.ie

Fee: €50

Skill level: Introductory

Teaching strategies: This workshop will take place online. Participants will be sent pre-reading of a published paper to complete before the start of the session. A total of 3 CPD credits have been assigned to this event.

Facilitator: Erica Ison is the lead for the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme at the Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare. She is an experienced trainer/facilitator in a range of fields and has worked with a variety of people from health and care professionals and third sector personnel to politicians, students and members of the public.