ECTS: 1.4
Course leader: Inger Mechlenburg
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: ClinFO
Course fee: 1,680.00 DKK
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Spring 2022
Application deadline: 24/01/2022
Cancellation deadline: 07/02/2022
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 21/02/2022
Administrator: Annette Poulsen
The course C229/09 Preparation and critical reading of meta-analysis is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2022.
Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students). Participants must have installed Stata on computer before course.
Aim: The aim of the course is to give students the knowledge and the skills to carry out a meta-analysis. Meta- analyses are a prerequisite for a final compilation of results of several types of systematic reviews. Without this skill, it is impossible to finalize the review and interpret the results in order to provide a basis for clinical guidelines.
Content: The students will gain skills to be able to:
- Extract the relevant data from the included scientific studies
- Assess the included studies’ quality and suitability of data in the meta-analysis
- Reason for choice of meta-analysis
- Choose the most appropriate type of estimation in relation to the assumptions for the meta-analysis
- Carry out the meta-analysis and prepare a forest plot with the relevant information
- Analyse and interpret the outcome of bias on the results
- Interpret the results of the meta-analysis
Learning outcomes: After the course, the students will have competence to:
- Carry out a meta-analysis based on the quantitative results of a systematic review, interpret the results and provide a clinical guideline based on the meta-analysis
- Describe the statistical assumptions, the chosen methods and the results of the meta-analysis
- Assess the quality of meta-analyses
Instructors: Associate professor Carsten Juhl
Venue: Kollokvierum Øst (1238-218), The Victor Albeck building, Vennelyst Blvd. 4, 8000 Aarhus C
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Research Year students and Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
- PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
- PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses
Course dates:
- 21 February 2022 09:00 - 16:00
- 22 February 2022 09:00 - 16:00