Learning outcomes

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

Teaching language

Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2017–2018

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

DPHSM302 Systematic reviews and meta-analyses