December 2021 (next issue February 2022)
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- Do you want to become a methods representative and inform decisions about Cochrane's future?
- Launching the Cochrane Methods 2021 Report and Spotlight On our Methods Groups.
- Upcoming events and opportunities to get involved include a qualitative evidence synthesis webinar series and feeding back on new Cochrane methods guidance.
- New resources include 'first-look' chapters from the new version of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy, updated GRADE publication lists, updates on priority methods projects and recordings from recent Cochrane events.
- Meet Angeliki (Argie) Veroniki from Statistics Methods Group.
- And much more!
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1) Do you want to become a methods representative and inform decisions about Cochrane's future? We are recruiting one representative (either a Methods Group Convenor, staff or active member) to sit on the Cochrane Council. This is an exciting opportunity speak for, and listen to, the methods community in Cochrane. Application deadline 31 December. 2) Launching the Cochrane Methods 2021 Report and Spotlight On our Methods Groups The Cochrane Methods Report provides an overview of the key methodological activities in Cochrane over the past year, including our public health intervention review methods projects, new training and guidance, and developments within the community. Since it's launch we've put the spotlight on our Methods Groups too, highlighting their achievements, such as research, developing best practice and supporting implementation. 3) We passed 4,000 followers on Twitter! Thank you to everyone who follows @CochraneMthds! If you want to get your Cochrane methods news and activities as they happen, please join our growing community.
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New resources - Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Test Accuracy (version 2), led by the Screening and Diagnostic Test Methods Group, launched the fourth and fifth chapters. Available for individual Cochrane members for personal use only, Cochrane account required for access. New chapters includes Chapter 3 (Evaluating diagnostic tests) and Chapter 11 (Undertaking meta-analysis).
- Newly updated article lists from the Cochrane GRADE Methods Group, curated by the GRADE Working Group and including official GRADE guidelines, other publications from the GRADE Working Group and GRADE-related publications.
- Cochrane Methods Symposium 2021 on evidence synthesis in public health and complex interventions. Recordings now available.
- Introduction to qualitative research and qualitative evidence synthesis hosted by Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group. Recording now available.
- Question formulation and searching for qualitative evidence hosted by Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group. Recording now available.
- Updates on five, ongoing, public-health, intervention-review, methods projects aimed to address challenges faced by Cochrane authors and editors with issues relating to complexity, non-randomised studies of interventions and synthesis without meta-analysis. Recordings now available.
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Meet Areti Angeliki (Argie) Veroniki of the Statistics Methods Group
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1) What's the aim of the Methods Group and who else is involved? Cochrane’s Statistical Methods Group is a forum where all statistical issues related to the work of Cochrane are discussed. The Group is led by Convenors Joanne McKenzie (Australia), Catrin Tudur Smith (UK), Mark Simmonds (UK), Anna Chaimani (France), and myself, and supported by our Coordinator, Lizzie Korevaar (Australia). 2) What do you do outside of the Methods Group? I am a Scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. My research focuses on optimizing health care decision-making through use of the most valid evidence and in particular, on advancing systematic review, meta-analysis and network meta-analysis methods.
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3) What's your favourite thing about Cochrane? There are three! (1) It has an international network of researchers developing evidence synthesis methods to improve our confidence in synthesis findings, a key component in the Cochrane Methods Groups (2) it promotes high-quality, reproducible and transparent research for making informed health-care decisions, and (3) it brings researchers and users of this information (including patients, clinicians, policy-makers) together to ensure research gaps are filled. I really like the variety of ways that Cochrane uses to exchange research knowledge, which helps us all stay up-to-date in this rapidly-moving field of systematic reviews.
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4) If you were stuck on a desert island, what would you take and why? Water supplies to avoid dehydration, a blanket to keep me warm at night, an inflatable raft to leave the island, and a solar-powered phone to make all necessary phone calls to get rescued.
Find out more about the Statistics Methods Group: ● Visit the Methods Group’s website ● Read the Methods Group’s 2021 spotlight on report ● Join by selecting the Methods Group in the Methods Network webform
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