Systematic Review Webinars by IMPACT - SESSION 7 - Quality Assessment & Risk of Bias

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 7 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 7 (recorded on 8 October 2020) was about QUALITY ASSESSMENT & RISK OF BIAS
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of what “quality assessment” means in the context of a systematic review.
- Awareness of why quality assessment is important and how study quality can impact review results.
- Understanding of key sources of bias in RCTs.
- Access of key resources for further learning.

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

Relevant links

More training content @Cochrane Training

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.

[dorsa]

Thanks for sharing, it was so useful.

[aishwaryanagarajan]

Can I please know the difference between index test and reference standards?

[guillermocano_verdugo]

Is quality assesment the same than risk of bias???