Systematic Review Webinars by IMPACT - SESSION 10 - META-ANALYSIS 3 & NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS

This is a recording of a training webinar developed by the NIHR Global Health Research Group IMPACT in South Asia in partnership with Cochrane Common Mental Disorders.

This is Session 10 in a series of training webinars about producing a Systematic Review.

By the end of the * IMPACT Systematic Review Webinar Series * participants will:
▪ Have an understanding of the importance of systematic reviews and their role in health/social care policy, practice, and decision making.
▪ Have an understanding of the individual steps of the SR process and their importance.
▪ Have the skills to plan and conduct their own SR of interventions, including basic literature searching and meta-analytic knowledge.
▪ Be aware of key web-based resources to support the planning and delivery of systematic reviews.

Session 10 (recorded on 19 November 2020) was the third session discussing META-ANALYSIS and introducing NARRATIVE SYNTHESIS.

Learning outcomes:
- Understanding heterogeneity - Why does it matter?
- Introduction to methods to explore heterogeneity
(Subgroup and meta-regression analyses)
(Sensitivity analyses)
- What is narrative synthesis?
- .How to do narrative synthesis of quantitative outcome data.

Facilitators in the video are based at the University of York: Alexander Jarde, Jen Brown and Najma Siddiqi.

Relevant links

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions
Chapter 12: Synthesizing and presenting findings using other methods

More information about Review Manager (RevMan 5 and RevMan Web)

ESRC Guidance on Narrative Synthesis

@Cochrane

The production of this webinar series and YouTube recording was supported by the National Institute for Health Research via:

- Research funding (NIHR) 17/63/130 using UK aid from the UK Government to support global health research
- Cochrane Infrastructure funding to the Common Mental Disorders Cochrane Review Group

The views expressed in this recording are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the UK Department of Health and Social Care.

[piyalisarkar]

Is there any chance by how can I access these slides apart from youtube (eg: via email)?

[MuhammadImran-qpuo]

I've a question! Can you please tell how we can deal with missing SD for meta analysis of continues data? If we don't have any other clue to get it for example p value, t value or standard error?