After completing this course, the student will be able to conduct systematic reviews and a meta-analyses.
Contents
This course will provide an overview of systematic reviews and statistical techniques used for meta-analyses, and a step-by-step guide on how to perform systematic reviews and meta-analyses of experimental and observational studies. The course will be delivered through lectures, group discussions and computer practicals using Stata. The following steps will be covered: - Formulating a research question - Defining inclusion and exclusion criteria - Developing a search strategy and locating primary studies - Selecting studies and assessing their quality - Performing fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analyses - Exploring heterogeneity across studies - Assessing publications bias - Performing sensitivity analyses