Date
2019.11.22 (Fri)~
2019.11.24 (Sun)
Venue
4th Floor, Cheng-Pu Conference Hall,
Comprehensive Medical Building
Taipei Medical University,
Taipei, Taiwan
Registration
Open on May 1, 2019
About the Event
The East Asia Cochrane Alliance (EACA) is a regional coalition, formed in 2007 to promote the activities of Cochrane. Representatives from EACA countries meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest, such as training and translation, and host workshops.
EACA symposium will be held on November 22-24, 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan. The call for POSTERS is now open; the deadline for submission is July 31, 2019. Abstracts for posters are invited in areas relevant to the work of Cochrane as well as evidence-based health care, policy, methodology, and advocacy.
Key Dates
5/1 (Wed)
Call for abstracts opens
5/1 (Wed)
Registration opens
7/31 (Wed)
Abstract submission deadline closed
8/31 (Sun)
Acceptance and
notification of abstracts
10/30 (Wed)
Registration closes
11/22-24 (Fri-Sun)
EACA Symposium
Agenda
| Day 1: November 22, 2019 Frontiers of Systematic Reviewing – latest updates to Cochrane Review methodology |
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| Time | Topic | Format | Speaker |
| 08:30 – 08:50 | Registration | ||
| 08:50 – 09:00 | Welcome Remarks Chien Huang Lin / (President, TMU |
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| 09:00 – 09:10 | Group photo | ||
| 09:10 – 09:40 | Update on the Cochrane Handbook | Lecture | Joey Sum-Wing Kwong (Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group) |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Key issues to consider when specifying your review question and setting up the eligibility criteria | Lecture | Hyeong Sik Ahn (Cochrane Korea) |
| 10:10 – 10:25 | TEA BREAK | ||
| 10:25 – 11:00 | Non-standard randomised designs for therapy – cross-over, cluster randomized, factorial | Lecture | Luming Shi (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Non-randomised interventional study designs | Lecture | Luming Shi (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Update on Searching strategy in the Cochrane Handbook | Lecture | Obaidur Rahman (Cochrane Japan) |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | LUNCH / EACA meeting (Invitation only) | ||
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Overview of RoB 2.0: A revised tool to assess risk of bias in randomized trials.(principles behind the signaling questions) | Lecture-demo | Edwin Chan Shih-Yen (Cochrane Singapore) Yi-Chun Kuan (Cochrane Taiwan) |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | TEA BREAK | ||
| 15:45 – 16:25 | Using Covidence for managing literature searches | Lecture-demo | Charles Zheng Qishi (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 16:25 – 17:00 | Using Covidence for RoB appraisal | Lecture-demo | Charles Zheng Qishi (Cochrane Singapore) |
| Day 2: November 23, 2019 Frontiers of Systematic Reviewing – latest updates to Cochrane Review methodology Network Meta-analyses Workshop **Poster session (09:00-16:00) |
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| Time | Topic | Format | Speaker |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Overview of the ROBINS-I: A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized Studies - of Interventions | Lecture-demo | Myeong Soo Lee (Cochrane Korea) Ka-Wai Tam (Cochrane Taiwan) |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | TEA BREAK | ||
| 11:10 – 12:00 | Preparing for synthesis and Synthesis in absence of meta-analysis | Lecture | Joey Sum-Wing Kwong (Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group) |
| 12:00 – 13:30 | LUNCH **Poster session |
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| 13:30 – 14:20 | Basic Assumptions of NMA and key concepts | Lecture | Norio Watanabe (Cochrane Japan) |
| 14:20 – 15:20 | How to frame the research question and develop the NMA Protocol | Lecture | Charles Zheng Qishi (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 15:20 – 15:35 | TEA BREAK | ||
| 15:35 – 16:35 | Presentation of and interpretation about results from NMA | Lecture-demo | Yu-Kang Tu (Cochrane Taiwan) |
| 16:35 – 17:30 | Checking consistency in NMA | Lecture | Hyeong Sik Ahn (Cochrane Korea) |
| Day 3: November 24, 2019 Network Meta-analyses Workshop **Best Poster Award (12:00-12:10) |
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| Time | Topic | Format | Speaker |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Statistical perspectives of NMA | Lecture | Yu-Kang Tu (Cochrane Taiwan) |
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Exercise: NMA mini-exercise using STATA software | Practical | Charles Zheng Qishi (Cochrane Singapore) Yu-Kang Tu / Ming-Chieh Shi (Cochrane Taiwan) |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH *Best Poster Award |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | SoF Table for standard MA | Lecture | Edwin Chan Shih-Yen (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | GRADE CoE for standard MA (requires internet connection to GRADEproGDT website) |
Lecture | Edwin Chan Shih-Yen (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | TEA BREAK | ||
| 15:45 – 16:15 | SoF Table for NMA | Practical | Edwin Chan Shih-Yen (Cochrane Singapore) |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | GRADE CoE for NMA | Lecture | Edwin Chan Shih-Yen (Cochrane Singapore) |
Transportation Information
Address: No.250 Wuxing Street Taipei 11031, Taiwan
The school is located near MRT Taipei City Hall (Blue Line) and Liuzhangli (Brown Line) stations.
Public transportation to TMU includes bus lines 266, 288, 226, 1, 235, 22, 33 and Blue 5.
