Consultancy

Our service to researchers focuses on providing guidance for the methods in clinical research, for example systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials and diagnostic test studies.

We offer both short-term and long-term individual consultancy (see below). For example:

Preparing systematic reviews with meta-analysis or without meta-analysis (including network meta-analysis)
Guidance on what type of review is relevant for your research question
Developing scoping reviews and other forms of evidence synthesis e.g. umbrella reviews and rapid reviews
Conducting other types of research, e.g. guidelines

Our consultancy services are free of charge for:

PhD students and other researchers from the Department of Clinical Research at SDU or from Odense University Hospital
Researchers based in Denmark who are preparing a Cochrane Review
Other researchers are welcome to contact us for a special arrangement (depending on availability).

Short-term consultancy

A short-term consultancy consists of a single consultation of up to one hour. The service will generally be useful for PhD students or researchers with one or several relatively concrete questions that need clarification.

Long-term consultancy

The long-term consultancy consists of up to 10 sessions of approximately one hour each. Generally, the long-term service will be a continuous process where we will provide guidance throughout the course of a research project.

Application to our consultancy service

An application for our short-term or long-term services should be sent to our email: cebmo-ms@sdu.dk and should contain:

A brief outline

A brief outline of the review’s research question, if possible in PICO format (clarification of patient population, intervention, control and outcome) or in the form of a protocol

Information

Information about the research group undertaking the review

Prior experience

Prior experience with preparing reviews

Information

Information on the expected time frame for the review

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