The course introduces participants to the core aspects of preparing a Systematic Review, including Cochrane Reviews. The overall aim is that participants upon attending the course will be able to identify the key elements of the process of preparing a systematic review, such as formulation of a review question, searching for- and selecting studies, assessing risk of bias, performing meta-analysis and grading the certainty of the evidence.

Identify the key elements of a review question
Identify ways of formulating inclusion and exclusion criteria
Identify methods for registering a study protocol
Identify information sources when searching for studies
Identify the elements of a search strategy
Identify the key process of selecting studies
Identify methods for assessing the risk of bias of the included studies
Identify the steps involved in extracting data
Identify ways of analysing and synthesising the data from included studies
Identify methods for grading the certainty of the evidence
Identify methods for presenting and interpreting results
Identify resources for reference and for further study

Max. 30

The course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled in The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark and for PhD students enrolled in Universities that have joined the "Open market agreement" and NorDoc agreement.

For other participants there is a course fee of DKK 2226,33,-