📥New review: Identification of application and interpretation errors that can occur in pairwise meta-analyses in systematic reviews of interventions (with Dr Raju Kanukula, Matthew Page and Jo McKenzie). Full text in: jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

Our next JBI Adelaide GRADE workshop will be held online on May 28, 2024! This 1-day workshop will focus on theory of GRADE, and you will have the chance to practice some hands-on activities. Get your tickets here: events.humanitix.com/jbi-grade-work…
#GRADEApproach JBI GRADE Working Group

📢The #PrismaCosmin guideline will be published soon! This 30-item checklist and accompanying 13-item abstract checklist ensures that all info needed to select the right outcome measurement instrument is included in #SystematicReviews

📥New paper: A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E) (with Julian Higgins, Elie Akl, Joerg J Meerpohl and Jonathan Sterne).
Full text in: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🎯NEW #CochraneESM article! Guidance for systematic reviews in journal author instructions (with Marte Ødegaard). Full-text in:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

INSPECT-SR will be a tool to help reviewers identify problematic RCTs. The development involves making a list (of trustworthiness checks) and checking it twice. Here's a preprint describing the making of the list: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

It’s raining #GRAMMYs for India 🇮🇳 Congrats Grammy winners Ustad Zakir Hussain (3 Grammys), Shankar Mahadevan (1st Grammy) and #SelvaGanesh (1st Grammy) 🔥

#RakeshChaurasia

Recent social network analysis of guideline meetings: a few panel members dominated guideline development meeting discussions. A ubiquitous problem that guidelines must address. One solution: chairs should be more assertive calling on quiet panelists. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcli…

Time and again, the phenomenally talented Rohan Bopanna shows age is no bar!

Congratulations to him on his historic Australian Open win.

His remarkable journey is a beautiful reminder that it is always our spirit, hard work and perseverance that define our capabilities.

Best…

All 3 papers ( #openaccess ) now out in the The BMJ on the **Evaluation of clinical prediction models**

part 1: tinyurl.com/3h4zfvfw

part 2: tinyurl.com/ynytrpmx

part 3: tinyurl.com/2cfc9uj3

#stats #MachineLearning #predictiveanalytics

A publisher makes an error in a publication about errors retractionwatch.com/2024/01/16/a-p…

Emerging synthesis methods, such as scoping reviews, mapping reviews, & evidence & gap maps, have been proposed as alternative approaches to synthesis within the research ecosystem. Learn more about Big Picture Reviews in the #JBILIVE webinar. ow.ly/P8FL50PJVSs #JBIEBHC

In our scoping review we identified 998 different terms used to describe evidence synthesis approaches. Dr Danielle Pollock introducing the preparatory work for our Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative at #CochraneLondon

'There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit.'
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📢First article published in the Methods and Statistics Tutorials series in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…
Learn about dichotomous outcomes and practice your skills! Cochrane Training

The next event in our Campbell Webinar Series will be led by Dr Miranda Cumpston on 1 August.
▶️ 'Synthesis methods other than meta-analysis: what to plan, when to use, what they answer'
▶️ Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

📣 Call for systemic reviews!

Evidence & Policy invites proposals for systematic reviews on topics related to the intersections of research #evidence , #PublicPolicy and practice.

Proposal deadline: 31 August 2023

Bristol University Press Journals Policy Press

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bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

📢Cochrane reviews of interventions are moving to the PRISMA Statement 📢

This is not a radical change for authors, it's part of a long-term solution to ensure Cochrane’s reporting standards align with the ever-evolving evidence synthesis landscape: community.cochrane.org/news/reporting…

'In our sample, @Zotero or EndNote would have identified 477 of the 500 retracted articles (95.4%).' Compare that to Google Scholar (34%) or Scopus (45%). Zotero and EndNote both integrate the Retraction Watch Database. bmj.com/content/381/bm…

Data sleuth flags 30 randomized clinical trials from researcher in Egypt.
retractionwatch.com/2023/06/12/dat…