Course Unit / Statistical Analysis in Thesis and Academical Articles I

Statistical Analysis in Thesis and Academical Articles I

Year
3
Academic year
2018-2019
Code
01015795
Subject Area
Elective Units
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
ECTS Credits
2.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics corresponding to the contents lectured in the first two years of the Integrated Master in Medicine.

Teaching Methods

Lecturing, discussing and resolving practical problems, supervision of work carried out independently by students.

Learning Outcomes

* Learn how to distinguish between narrative review and systematic review

* Recognise the characteristics of different types of systematic reviews

* Acknowledge the existence of different guidelines

* Learn the steps for writing a systematic review

* Recognise when performing a meta-analysis is adequate

* Learn how to perform a meta-analysis

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

* Identifying characteristics of different types of reviews: from narrative to scoping to systematic reviews, with or without meta-analysis

* Choosing the research question: PICO model

* Advanced bibliographic search techniques

* Choosing the relevant articles

* Evaluating articles and bias

* Why and how to perform a meta-analysis

* Interpretation and visualisation of results of meta-analyses: from exploratory analysis to synthesis and validation

* Examples of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

* Common errors in systematic review and meta-analyses

Head Lecturer(s)

Otília da Anunciação Cardoso d'Almeida

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

* Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG, The PRISMA Group (2009) Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000097. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097

* Grant, M. J. and Booth, A. (2009), A typology of reviews: an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26: 91–108. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x

* Green S, Higgins J, eds (2005) Glossary. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions 4.2.5. The Cochrane Collaboration. Available: http:// www.cochrane.org/resources/glossary.htm. Accessed 19 May 2009.

* Pham M. T., Rajić A., Greig J. D., Sargeant J. M., Papadopoulos A. and McEwen S. A. (2014), A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency, Research Synthesis Methods, 5, pages 371–385, DOI: 10.1002/jrsm.1123