YHEC courses for researchers, including evidence searching

York Health Economic Consortium have announced their programme of courses at University of York for 2018, including:

v  Introduction to Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (7 March 2018)

v  Economic Evaluation for Oncology (24 April 2018)

v  Making an Economic Case in the NHS (16 May 2018)

v  Early Economic Modelling to Inform Clinical Trial Design and Other Decisions (3 July 2018)

v  NEW Health Utilities for Economic Models (4 July 2018)

v  Identifying Evidence for NICE Economic Submissions (5 September 2018)

v  Understanding and Critiquing Models (13 September 2018)

v  NEW Economic Modelling Techniques for the NHS & Public Health (20 September 2018)

v  Advanced Search Techniques for Systematic Reviews, Health Technology Assessment & Guideline Development (16 October 2018)

v  Advanced Search Strategy Design for Complex Topics: Strategy Development Text Analytics and Text Mining (17 October 2018)

v  Software Packages to Support the Systematic Review Process (18 October 2018)

For further information see: http://www.yhec.co.uk/training.

(Note that these courses have costs attached.)

Trial of JBI SUMARI tool to support systematic reviews

JBI SUMARI (System for the Unified Management of the Assessment and Review of Information) allows you to 'develop, conduct and report on systematic reviews of evidence related to the feasibility, appropriateness, meaningfulness and effectiveness of health care interventions or professional activities.' 

Trial access to this, and other associated Joanna Briggs tools, are available via the University of York until 14th December 2017. 

To access the trial go to http://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/az.php?q=jbi%20tools and login using your University of York account. Select JBI SUMARI and login using your Ovid Personal Account (or create one if needed). Select the Green Wolter Kluwer/EBP Network Account option and you are ready to start.

We are very interested in knowing if this tool is valuable to staff and students undertaking systematic reviews. Please send any feedback you may have to library@hyms.ac.uk. 

For further information on SUMARI go to https://www.jbisumari.org/#features. There are also some video tutorials on using the software at  https://jbisumari.org/#tutorials. Copied below is a summary of the resource from https://www.jbisumari.org/faq.html#general-what-is-sumari:

The System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information (SUMARI) is the Joanna Briggs Institute's premier software for the systematic review of literature.

It is designed to assist researchers and practitioners in fields such as health, social sciences and humanities to conduct systematic reviews. SUMARI supports 10 review types, including:

1. Reviews of effectiveness
2. Qualitative research
3. Economic evaluations
4. Prevalence/incidence
5. Aetiology/risk
6. Mixed methods
7. Umbrella/overviews
8. Text/opinion
9. Diagnostic test accuracy
10. Scoping reviews

It facilitates the entire review process, from protocol development, team management, study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, data synthesis and writing your systematic review report. Essentially, it is a word processor, reference management program, statistical and qualitative data analysis program all in one easy to use web application.

By 'eck Quality Training From YHEC: Systematic Reviews, Trials Registers and More ...

York Health Economics Consortium have just announced several workshops that HYMS researchers may find interesting:

Health Economic Evaluations and Economic Evidence (6th September 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/economic-evaluations-and-evidence/

   Searching Trials Registers and Regulatory Agency Sources (11th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/searching-trials-registers/

 Advanced Search Techniques for Systematic Reviews, HTA and Guidelines (17th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/advanced-search-techniques/

  Advanced Search Strategy Design for Complex Topics (18th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/advanced-search-strategy-design/

 Software to Support the Systematic Review Process (19th October 2017) http://www.yhec.co.uk/training/software-to-support-systematic-review/

For further information on these courses please visit our training pages at: http://www.yhec.co.uk/training

Systematic Review Training

York Health Economics Consortium have just announced two workshops that HYMS researchers will find interesting:

  Software Packages to Support the Systematic Review Process (6 October 2016)

  Software Tools to Support the Systematic Review Process (7 October 2016)

In association with the Systematic Review Toolbox, these linked workshops will provide an overview of, and hands on experience with, various software tools currently available to support the production of systematic reviews. 

The workshops will run at The University of York and a discount rate is available for booking both days together.

Systematic Reviews on the Move

These days we expect responsive design in all the websites we visit. Most of us use our phone or tablet to access the internet just as much, if not more than, we use a desktop or laptop. So why shouldn't we be able to access information on the devices we are using? Cochrane are the latest good eggs to provide a host of features such as clean and responsive design, social media integration and a whole feast of lovely stuff in the picture to your right. Why not have a play yourself and view the Cochrane Library