English Course ยท C5-EN ยท Negida Academy
Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
Follow one review from the first idea to the submitted paper: question, protocol, search, screening, risk of bias, meta-analysis, GRADE and PRISMA.
Taught in English ยท โ 4.4/5 on Trustpilot (227 reviews) ยท More than 40,000 trainees
Why this course matters
A systematic review has many steps, and each one has rules.
This course takes you through every step in order, so you always know what comes next:
- How do I choose a question and register a protocol?
- How do I search and screen the literature?
- How do I judge risk of bias and pool the results?
- How do I rate the evidence and report the review?
This is mainly a written course. Six video lessons from a live lecture appear in Modules 1, 2 and 4. The other lessons are short written pages with checklists, templates and worked examples.
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What you'll learn
A Start Here module, then eleven modules that follow one review from idea to submission.
Why does medicine need systematic reviews?
Reviews versus narrative reviews, and meta-analysis as a weighted average on a forest plot.
What will your review ask?
A focused PICO question, eligibility criteria, checking for existing reviews, and PROSPERO.
How do you search for every relevant study?
Building the search, databases and registries, documenting and de-duplicating.
How do you screen the records?
Two independent screeners in Rayyan, reasons for exclusion, and the PRISMA flow numbers.
What data do you extract?
The extraction form, the numbers a meta-analysis needs, and converting medians and confidence intervals.
How do you judge risk of bias?
RoB 2, ROBINS-I, the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale, and robvis plots.
How do you pool the results?
Effect measures, fixed and random effects, forest plots, heterogeneity, and a three-case workshop.
Are studies missing?
Funnel plots, Egger's test, trim and fill, and when these tests should not be used.
How sure can you be of the evidence?
Rating certainty with GRADE and building a Summary of Findings table.
How do you report your review?
The PRISMA 2020 checklist, flow diagram and extensions.
How do you write and submit it?
Each section of the review, common mistakes, and a final project on your own review.
The result
You will be able to carry out and report a review
The final project carries your own review from the question to submission.
What you'll be able to do
- Turn a topic into a PICO question and register a protocol on PROSPERO
- Build, run and document a reproducible search
- Judge risk of bias with RoB 2 and ROBINS-I
- Pool studies and read a forest plot
- Rate certainty with GRADE and report with PRISMA 2020
What's included
- 43 written lessons with checklists, templates and worked examples
- 6 video lessons, about 1 hour
- 11 quizzes
- A glossary and a list of trusted free resources
Your instructor
Dr. Ahmed Negida, MBBCh, PhD
Founder and Academic Advisor, Negida Academy
Dr. Negida is a translational research scientist in the USA and a research educator with 150+ scientific publications. Negida Academy is a US-based research organization and the most reputable clinical research training in MENA since 2014, with more than 40,000 trainees. Graduates work at top US institutions and were mentored to first-authored papers.
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C5-EN: Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis
$75
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- 43 written lessons
- 6 video lessons, about 1 hour
- 11 quizzes and a final project
- Taught in English
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