2017.0: Sunday, November 10, 2002: 2:30 PM-6:00 PM |
Oral |
Interpreting and Reporting Public Health and Medical Research: Techniques and 13 Key Questions * |
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| Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview: |
| * Presented by the American Statistical Association.
The problem of statistical and methodological reporting errors in the public health and biomedical literature is widespread, long-standing, potentially serious, almost unknown to many readers, and yet potentially easily remedied. Readers of the literature need to know how to recognize the most common and serious errors in the literature so that they will not be misled by poor research. In this workshop, these errors are discussed as part of the answers to 13 key questions readers should ask about the articles they read.
The purpose of this workshop is to help participants to become more informed consumers of the public health and biomedical literature. Several techniques and tools for critically appraising the literature will be presented, including perspectives to reading the literature, checklists for authors and readers, and references to aide readers. The bulk of the workshop is structured around a series of 13 general questions about the purpose, design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of a research study. Each question is accompanied by one or more common concerns, which we will discuss in detail. Where applicable, participants will be advised on how best to present scientific information in reporting their own research. At the end of the workshop, participants should be better able to critically appraise a scientific article to arrive at informed opinions on the implications and quality of the research. |
| Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the institute participants will be able to:
1. Explain why critical appraisal is necessary when reading the scientific literature.
2. Describe three techniques for critically appraising research articles
3. List three ways in which pragmatic trials differ from explanatory ones.
4. List two ways in which confidence intervals are superior to P values for reporting results.
5. Define the meaning of "operational definition".
6. List three forms of bias that commonly occur in sample selection.
7. Describe the nature and importance between allocation concealment and random assignment.
8. Describe the differences between allocation concealment and random assignment.
9. List three ways in which systematic reviews of the literature differ from narrative reviews.
10. State the importance of baseline risk when interpreting clinical trials. |
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. |
| Organizer(s): | Tom Lang, MA |
| 2:30 PM | | Introduction and Overview
Tom Lang, MA |
| 2:45 PM | | Key questions for introduction and methods
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| 3:45 PM | | Break
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| 4:15 PM | | Key Questions for Results and Discussion
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| 5:15 PM | | Discussion of scientific publication requirements
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| 5:45 PM | | Evaluations
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| 5:59 PM | | Close
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| Organized by: | APHA-Continuing Education Institutes |
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work |
