Date/time: Tuesday 9 September 2025, 09:00-12:00 CEST
Venue: Palais des Congrès, 1st floor - room Neuilly 153
Fee (inc. VAT): €60
Capacity: 15 participants
Registration: Online Services Portal
Course description
The Y-ESCP Course on Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis for Guideline Development is a practical guide for early-career surgeons and researchers on how to conduct high-quality systematic reviews and assess evidence supporting clinical practice guidelines. Led by an expert faculty, the course walks participants through the key steps of protocol development, literature search, study selection, data extraction, and risk of bias assessment. It also introduces methods for appraising the certainty of evidence and translating findings into evidence-based recommendations using the evidence-to-decision framework.
Programme
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| Session 1: Systematic review | |
|
09:00 - 09:05 |
Introduction – Y ESCP - Zoe Garoufalia |
|
09:05 - 09:20 |
Building a protocol - stakeholders and guidelines panel - Stavros Antoniou |
|
09:20 - 09:30 |
Systematic review: researching the evidence - Lisa Massey |
|
09:30 - 09:40 |
Systematic review: selecting studies - Adele Sayers |
|
09:40 - 10:00 |
Systematic review: collecting data (continuous/dichotomous/time-to-event) - Caterina Foppa |
|
10:00 - 10:20 |
Systematic reviews: assessing bias in RCTs - Adele Sayers |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break |
| Session 2 | |
|
10:50 - 11:10 |
Systematic reviews: assessing bias in observational studies - Caterina Foppa |
|
11:10 - 11:40 |
Appraisal of the certainty of the evidence - Stavros Antoniou |
|
11:40 - 12:00 |
Creating recommendations - evidence-to-decision framework - Lisa Massey |
|
12:00 - 12:05 |
Wrap up – Guidelines Chair - Triantafyllos Doulias |
Faculty
- Stavros Antoniou (Greece)
- Caterina Foppa (Italy)
- Lisa Massey (United Kingdom)
- Adele Sayers (United Kingdom)
Course directors
- Zoe Garoufalia (USA)
- Triantafyllos Doulias (United Kingdom)