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
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Session 1: Systematic review |
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09:00 - 09:05 |
Introduction |
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09:05 - 09:20 |
Building a protocol – Stakeholders and guidelines panel |
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09:20 - 09:30 |
Systematic review: researching the evidence |
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09:30 - 09:40 |
Systematic review: selecting studies |
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09:40 - 10:00 |
Systematic review: collecting data (continuous/dichotomous/time-to-event) |
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Systematic reviews: assessing bias in RCTs |
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10:20 - 10:50 |
Break |
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Session 2 |
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10:50 - 11:10 |
Systematic reviews: assessing bias in observational studies |
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11:10 - 11:40 |
Appraisal of the certainty of the evidence |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
Creating recommendations – Evidence-to-decision framework |
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11:10 - 11:40 |
Wrap up |