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Advanced Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group (EPOC) workshop.

Gro Jamtvedt, Russell Gruen and Doris Tove Kristoffersen.
Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group.

grj doesnotexist@cochrane.org kunnskapssenteret.no


Objective: To facilitate understanding of methodological issues specific to EPOC reviews, and to highlight particularly challenging areas.

Summary: This workshop will first give a brief overview of EPOC reviews and will then quickly move into an interactive session on issues particularly relevant and/or unique to EPOC reviews, including:

• dealing with multi-faceted interventions;
• the handling of multiple outcomes;
• assessing baseline differences;
• visual analysis and meta-regression analysis to explain heterogeneity and variation in effect size;
• incorporating aspects of contextual heterogeneity;
• search strategy tips and locating the grey literature;
• writing for policy makers as well as clinicians.