Symposium for Australasian Review Authors - ARCHIVE

Brisbane, 2007

Welcome
Each year the Australasian Cochrane Centre hosts a meeting for Australasian contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. This year, to coincide with the major update to the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions and the release of RevMan 5, we will be hosting a Symposium for Australasian review authors in Brisbane, July 12-13.

The program will focus on new methodologies and changes to the review process that are described in the updated Handbook. Presenters will provide up-to-date information on specific changes to the review process allowing time for discussion on how we can best implement these changes both as review authors and staff of Cochrane entities and satellites.

The day before the symposium on July 11 there is the opportunity to attend an introduction to RevMan 5 workshop (available to symposium registrants only). Please note that the previously advertised event - the half-day Qualitative Methods Symposium - has had to be cancelled.

We hope many of you will make the trip to Brisbane and take the opportunity to get together with other contributors in an informal and relaxed environment.


Program Highlights
As The Cochrane Library progresses into its 11th year, a major priority of The Collaboration is to ensure that reviews are maintained and updated in light of current research. A session on updating reviews will be presented by our international invited guest speaker, Rob Scholten (Director of the Dutch Cochrane Centre and member of the Cochrane Collaboration Steering Group).

Other topics to be covered in the symposium program include:
• Searching and CENTRAL
• New risk of bias tool
• RevMan 5 and IMS
• Overview of reviews
• Prioritising reviews
• Summary of findings tables
• Diagnostic reviews
• Qualitative methods
• Non-standard study designs

Authors currently working on a Cochrane systematic review or review update are also encouraged to attend a work-in session on the last day of the symposium. This is an excellent opportunity to dedicate some time to your review in the presence of other review authors and staff from ACC and other local entities.

For the full Symposium Programme, click here.