Academy in Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
This workshop is available to be delivered face-to-face or virtually.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are crucial in synthesizing clinical research to determine the efficacy of an intervention. However, conducting high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses that have clinical impact on the field takes time and expertise.
Nature Research Academies has developed this workshop in ‘Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses’ for clinical researchers, to explain how to conduct a systematic review or a meta-analysis.
- 1-day workshops
- Available to institutions globally
- For up to 50 clinical researchers
Feedback from participants
“Your workshop was very helpful for all Chinese students. I previously wrote a meta-analysis with my colleague, but it was rejected. I never understood why we failed until you made such a wonderful speech! Thank you so much!”
Academy content
- Preparing to conduct the systematic review
- Discusses the value of systematic reviews and meta-analyses for the field and when they should be done
- Discusses how to identify a relevant research question that will serve as the motivation for the review as well as ensuring its novelty and originality
- Highlights how to define the appropriate inclusion and exclusion criteria that will be essential in selecting the appropriate studies to be included
- Discusses strategies to find both published and unpublished studies along with useful tools to screen through
- Extracting and analyzing data
- Focuses on how to properly extract and analyze the data from the selected studies in the review
- Discusses how to use standardized data extraction forms to extract the appropriate data from the studies for analysis
- Reviews how to assess the bias within the selected studies that will affect the impact of those data
- Discusses the various types of biases that plague systematic reviews as well as the strategies to minimize those biases to improve the review’s robustness and reliability
- Performing syntheses
- Reviews how to synthesize the extracted data and present the analyses in a way to emphasize the value of the review
- Discusses how to synthesize the data from the selected studies qualitatively for the systematic review and how it should be presented in the manuscript
- Introduces meta-analyses and when they should be done to complement the qualitative analysis in a systematic review
- Discusses the techniques and statistical methods that are used in performing the meta-analysis in the study
- Explores fixed effect and random effects models, statistical heterogeneity, meta-regression techniques and lastly subgroup and sensitivity analyses
