Instructor: Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD
Email: colon001@mc.duke.edu
- Read:
Learning goals:
- List and Define Types of Evidence Synthesis
- What they can and can’t do for you
- Explain terms of:
- Heterogeneity
- Weighting
- Effect Size/Summary Effect Size
- Draw and interpret a Forest Plot
- Critically appraise a systematic review
- Validity
- Results
- Application
- Read the article: Pimpin L, Wu JH, Haskelberg H, Del Gobbo L, Mozaffarian D. 2016. Is butter back? A systematic review and meta-analysis of butter consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and total mortality. PLoS One 11(6):e0158118.
- Use Medical Center Library EBM worksheet for appraisal of articles on systematic review
