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ESCP 2025 Paris

Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:00 CEST
Venue: Palais des Congrès

Course Director
Zoe Garoufalia (USA)

Registration fee
€60 (including VAT)

Faculty
Caterina Foppa (Italy)
Lisa Massey (United Kingdom)
Adele Sayers (United Kingdom)
Stavros Antoniou (Greece)

Capacity
15 participants

Brief 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

Session 1: Systematic review

09:00 - 09:05

Introduction

09:05 - 09:20

Building a protocol – Stakeholders and guidelines panel

09:20 - 09:30

Systematic review: researching the evidence

09:30 - 09:40

Systematic review: selecting studies

09:40 - 10:00

Systematic review: collecting data (continuous/dichotomous/time-to-event)

10:00 - 10:20

Systematic reviews: assessing bias in RCTs

10:20 - 10:50

Break

Session 2

10:50 - 11:10

Systematic reviews: assessing bias in observational studies

11:10 - 11:40

Appraisal of the certainty of the evidence

11:40 - 12:00

Creating recommendations – Evidence-to-decision framework

11:10 - 11:40

Wrap up