Leader: Prof M Abramson

Offered

Alfred Hospital Second semester 2008 (Day)
Alfred Hospital Second semester 2008 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Critical appraisal of literature reviews; problem formulation and protocol development; intra-rater agreement for assessment of relevance; validity assessments; data collection forms; variation between study findings, combining the findings of independent studies, inferences based upon overviews; statistics of meta analysis, Cochrane Collaboration.

Objectives

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. critically appraise literature reviews;
2. perform a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

Assessment

Group presentation of a systematic review (50%)
Individual critical appraisal of a published literature review (50%)

Contact hours

15 contact hours over 2 days

Prerequisites

MPH1040 and MPH1041 or MPH1030 and MPH1031