Successful 40-hour online training course hosted by Cochrane Sweden

In May 2020,Cochrane Sweden organised a one week, 40-hour online training course attracting 26 doctoral students and Cochraneities from all around the world. This training event was co-organised with the support ofCochrane Nordic,Cochrane Norway,Cochrane Sustainable Health Care and theFaculty of Medicine of Lund University.Morning sessions organised via zoom videolink included lectures and hands-on training on all steps of the systematic review process, from registering the title, defining the research question, discussing on issues around structure and registration of the protocol, searching, assessing the risk of bias, with special emphasis given on theRoB tool 2, and by using platforms likeCOVIDENCE andRevMan Web along with sharing some useful tips and tricks on their use.The values of Cochrane systematic reviews have been emphasised, and some common mistakes and good examples of how a well designed CSRs should look like were shared. In light of such good examples, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, the lead author of the recently published CSR on Quarantine shared the findings of the review and also presented interesting methodological aspects of her work.  The cherry on top, as it is supposed to be, was saved for assessing the certainty of evidence, with Karsten Juhl J ørgensen from Cochrane Nordic sharing useful information about the greatGRADE.The whole course was organised in such a way to allow optimal time for short lecture-based education, small-group discussions, indivi...
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